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in Making Democracy Real: African American Women, Birth Control, and Social Justice, 1910–1960
> Meridians
Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 45. Woman walking in Montgomery, Alabama, in support of the 1955–1956 bus boycott. Photo by Don Cravens. Life Magazine.
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in Making Democracy Real: African American Women, Birth Control, and Social Justice, 1910–1960
> Meridians
Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 50. Women in Harlem demonstrate in support of civil rights activists in the South, 1966. Photo by Diana Davies. Diana Davies Papers, SSC.
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 76–80.
Published: 01 March 2010
... a revolutionary act (Cook 1978;1992; 1999). Two of Blanche's early essays did revolutionize the growing field of women's history. Her groundbreaking 1977 essay, "Female Support Networks and Political Activism: Lillian Wald, Crystal Eastman, and Emma Goldman" first appeared in the feminist journal Chrysalisand two...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 211–235.
Published: 01 September 2008
... that there is something lackluster about rap music played on radio and aired on music video programming. Additionally, gendered hierarchies on video sets create divisions among women working in various positions, and discourage women from supporting one another, which, from a black feminist perspective, does...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 149–171.
Published: 01 March 2014
.... A lush work of memories, poetry, and criticism, the work presents vignettes from the author's life alongside her meditations on writing, history, mapmaking, and most important for this essay, the archives. Brand's memoir is replete with supporting materials that range from ffteenth-century journals...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 142–152.
Published: 01 September 2014
... at the Combahee River near Beaufort, South Carolina, and the legacy of the Combahee River Collective, a Boston-based, black, lesbian, socialist, feminist organization famous for its analysis of interlocking oppression in the 1970s and early 1980s. With the support of INCITE Women of Color against Violence, Black...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 99–122.
Published: 01 September 2014
... blessedness, which considered single women's vocations and charity as indirectly supporting heteronormative marriage rather than challenging it. Reading through the lens of black feminist scholarship and recent research in singleness studies, this essay traces how the period of mid-life singleness for Tubman...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 25–45.
Published: 01 September 2016
... . The poem has become an affirming instrument to support, but also a meaningful platform for Black women's organizations, activists, and individuals. Copyright © 2016 Smith College 2016 DOROTHY E. MOSBY TravelingWords:A Reflectionon "Rotundamentenegra"and Afro-DescendantWomen's CulturalPolitics Abstract...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 186–203.
Published: 01 September 2015
... as Villa Ki-Yi, a haven for both well-established and budding artists in need of a place to refine their art within a supportive community. Over the years, goals for the center evolved as Liking sought to fight social injustice through combining activism and the arts. The Village Ki-yi, as it is known...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 1–27.
Published: 01 March 2016
... strain following immigration. The women reported that their relationships with other women were helpful and psychologically supportive and enabled them to cope with various hardships. These findings contrast with research findings that have described women's relationships as primarily competitive...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 40–64.
Published: 01 December 2016
....” During meetings, discussions ranged from popular culture and political events to everyday experiences with racism, sexism, and other burning topics that need sisterly advice. Eventually the group became a place where members not only supported and leaned on each other’s shoulders for comfort, but also...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 353–381.
Published: 01 March 2017
... against Portuguese colonialism. It pays particular attention to how nationalist movements deployed the trope of patriotic motherhood to appeal to women to join and support the fight for national independence. Focusing primarily on the maternal body, this essay argues that while women are often rendered...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 330–352.
Published: 01 March 2017
... as a negotiation between national and transnational capitalist interests often in favor of the latter at the expense of the former, this essay also offers a feminist critique of the social structures supporting polygamy. The conclusion describes why it is as crucial to examine political structures in Nigeria from...
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Institutional Strategies to Promote the Health of Black Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 276–285.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and mental health problems such as depression and anxiety disorders. Despite these challenges, Black women actively seek out support from multiple formal institutions to keep themselves and their families safe. Yet Black women face structural barriers when they seek assistance. Using a Black feminist...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 333–342.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Cheryl L. Woods-Giscombé Abstract The Superwoman Schema conceptual framework was developed to support the comprehensive assessment and understanding of stress and biopsychosocial factors that influence African America women’s health and health disparities. The present essay presents the factors...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 261–277.
Published: 01 October 2019
... for women fighting imperialism within aggressor nations. This transnational feminism supported an explicitly pro-socialist vision for the future. Copyright © 2019 Smith College 2019 anticolonialism decolonization transnational feminism Afro-Asian solidarity peasant women Colonialism...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 94–114.
Published: 01 April 2023
... economies that erode welfare policies while supporting the free exchange of consumer goods. The violence against Moroccan Muslim women crossing the border is promoted and sustained through its normalization in social, political, and religious discourses that blame the women for putting themselves in those...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 439–464.
Published: 01 October 2024
... through the collective’s presence at marches, demonstrations, and on social media. While core membership is small, La Cole has been able to convene collaborators and supporters to organize against the imposition of neoliberal economic and public policies that negatively impact the most dispossessed...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 338–358.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué Abstract Utilizing interdisciplinary and multimethodological approaches, this essay explores women’s roles in buttressing the political cohesion of secessionist movements in postcolonial Africa. It argues that African women have supported the actions of male...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 90–126.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Sreyoshi Sarkar Abstract Women living in the South Asian conflict zone of Kashmir have been represented by mainstream media and film as mainly victims of the Indian state power’s political and sexual violence, as protestors who are supporting their men’s insurgency in Kashmir, or as aligned...
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