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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Ranjoo Seodu Herr Abstract Third World and transnational feminisms have emerged in opposition to white second-wave feminists' single-pronged analyses of gender oppression that elided Third World women's multiple and complex oppressions in their various social locations. Consequently...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 129–156.
Published: 01 September 2015
... technoculture as well as US hegemony, enabling awareness of the differential modes of oppression and collective demands for social justice by third-world laborers in the so called “Asian Century.” Copyright © 2015 by Smith College 2015 LONG THANH BUI Glorientalization: Specters of Asia and Feminized Cyborg...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 85–106.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Lauren E. Shoemaker Abstract Literature by women of the third world is capable of expressing emergent feelings attached to objects and everyday activities, which reveal underlying economic processes. One such activity that inspires diverging feelings, the Caribbean vacation, reveals a continued...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 October 2020
... and inflects a U.S. Third World feminist analysis by examining how the narrative draws attention to the ways gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and class are entwined. Rather than view the text as an outright rejection of the dubious premises and promises provided by fairy tales—individualist, (hetero)sexist...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 110–132.
Published: 01 April 2024
... within a broader, complex matrix of power. The article positions the Palestinian feminist anticolonial struggle in relation to wider debates on Black, transnational, and Third World feminisms to contextualize the movement. The article eventually turns to contemporary examples of intersectional feminist...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 417–438.
Published: 01 October 2024
... with Naifei Ding’s concept of the “feminist knot” to analyze how this structure is reified and reproduced specifically in third-world Taiwan. It concludes with a proposal of “de-naming” as a decolonial methodology to shift away from dehumanizing names that fix a person into their sexed-and-colored skin...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 304–331.
Published: 01 October 2019
... and Hawai‘i became the forty-ninth and fiftieth states respectively, back-to-back, as the United States positioned itself in relation to the Soviet Union and the decolonizing Third World. The last two states, the only noncontiguous states, constituted the periphery of the U.S. empire; they were located...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 263–294.
Published: 01 April 2024
.... Despite the campaign for sole reliance on SMI, Africa’s MMR remains the highest compared to other regions. Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, also has the third-highest MMR in the world as of 2020. This failure of SMI to reduce MMR for Nigeria and Africa more broadly calls for the inclusion...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 189–203.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., she co-founded the Women of Color Resource Center in Oakland, California, in 1989 and was its executive director for 18 years. A journalist and political activist, Burnham has been involved with the Venceremos Brigades, the Third World Women's Alliance, the Alliance Against Women's Oppression...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): ix–xiv.
Published: 01 March 2001
... obtaining bank loans that require them to make handicrafts to sell to tourists, thus reinscribing Eurowestern conceptions of Third World women's traditionalism. 1 Lesbian and gay groups are subject to increasing legal restrictions and monitoring in Latin America; at the same time more people are prepared...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 283–288.
Published: 01 March 2002
...?If we in the West are all Americans now, what are Third World women and Aboriginal women to do? If Canadians are all Americans now, what are women of color in this country to do? I would like to thank the previous speaker for reminding us that we are on aboriginal land, but I want to add to her comments...
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Meridians (2002) 3 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 September 2002
... expression in the denial of the rights of women lies at the intersection of issues relating to women, culture, and identity. Some third world thinkers believe that their 6 RADHIK.A COOMARASWAMY societies offer a different version of "woman" than that of so-called Western societies (Nhlapo 1995). These so...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 85–109.
Published: 01 September 2000
... and every place, precisely because "U.S. Third World feminists" embody a type of"differential consciousness" that engages otheroppositional ideologies selectivelyand weaves "between and among them" (Sandoval 1991,14).The expansive consciousness of women of color is derivative of their material locations...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): v–vii.
Published: 01 March 2014
... dimension in Ellison's use of"folk" and how it illuminates its modern counterpart. In "Reclaiming Third World Feminism, or, Why Transnational Feminism Needs Third World Feminism," Ranjoo Herr examines the evolution of what she sees as the false dichotomies between the two schools of feminist thought. She...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 28–51.
Published: 01 March 2001
... prostitution research organization (Brussa 1989). The research indicated that around 60 percent of the population working in red-light districts in Amsterdam and other large Dutch cities were foreign/migrant/Third World women. My initial work built upon some of the insights from this research as well as from...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 113–132.
Published: 01 September 2005
... historical, educational, political, and cultural location as Africans (a Sierra Leonean and a Kenyan) and as feminists, as well as by our experience of living in the United States with our newly acquired identities as black women, and as third world immigrants. Additionally, our usage of the phrase "African...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 114–141.
Published: 01 September 2018
... and practice has focused extensively on women's relationships and feminist organizing in the "First world" and "Third world" (see Grewal and Kaplan 1994; Mohanty 2003; Moghadam 2005; Swarr and Nagar 2010; Baksh and Harcourt 2015). This focal point has generated extensive and important knowledge but has also...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 42–57.
Published: 01 September 2001
... that this catastrophe is perpetrated with the approval of the Sri Lankan government is a recognizable and predictable consequence of the current manifestation of structural adjustment programs, neo-liberal economic ideology, and globalism. The result is that many Third World governments are compelled to sell off...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 174–182.
Published: 01 April 2021
... anticolonial and anti-imperial project. Works Cited AAPSO (Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Organization) . 1972 . Women in Africa and Asia Today . Cairo : Permanent Secretariat of AAPSO . Prashad Vijay . 2007 . The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World . New Press People’s...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 332–359.
Published: 01 October 2024
... consumer base, and their separation of sales and production operations between the US and elsewhere—in places loosely termed as belonging in the “Third World.” We name these corporations that claim to be using a business model of people over profits and relationships over revenue as alt-profits . The alt...
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