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Guantanamo: A Feminist Perspective on U.S. Human Rights Violations
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 209–219.
Published: 01 March 2006
...,quotes from a classified secret section of the official military report by Major General George R. Fay, Deputy Commander U.S. Army, to show "how procedures that violated established interrogation procedures and applicable laws" had their genesis not in Iraq but in interrogation rooms in Afghanistan...
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Race, Gender, and the Prison Industrial Complex: California and Beyond
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 87–111.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., amplified by activists on the outside and international human rights organizations documenting prison conditions, highlight rampant violations of human rights behind walls. The gendered nature of racism, which fuels the growth of the prison industrial complex, results in experiences of violence, including...
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Witchcrafts of Color: Suzanne Césaire, Mayotte Capécia, and the Shapeshifting Doudou in Vichy Martinique
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 107–130.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Marina Magloire Abstract This essay argues that the anticolonial efforts of Martinican intellectuals like Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon often established a strict dichotomy between a violated, abject, and feminized Martinique and a masculine and authoritative France. In this way, they reify...
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Liquid Echoes: The Breast and Voice Transmission in Maryse Condé’s Windward Heights
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 183–205.
Published: 01 April 2019
... and history. Condé’s novel shows that while controlled métissage is attempted through the violation of the black and white breasts, creolization is undercutting this project, allowing the breast agency as well as space for rebellion. While the breast cannot be represented through the colonizer’s language...
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Making Way for Ghosts and M others : Storied Socialities, Sexual Violence, and the Figure of the Furtive Migrant
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 206–226.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Moon Charania Abstract This essay takes on ghosts as an explicit analytic lever to examine the storied archive of one racial and racialized m other . It defines ghosts as conglomerating and attached energies whose nodes of human connection rely on the lived experience of violence, violation...
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Insurgent Memories of Armed Struggle: Self-Representation by Female Ex-combatants in Peru
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Meridians (2025) 24 (1): 165–189.
Published: 01 April 2025
... the normalization and acceptance of torture against women identified as Indigenous, campesinas , and insurgents. The author contends that the narration of ex-combatant herstories of war visibilizes the insufficiency of Peru’s legal system to address cases of human rights violations, opens spaces from which...
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Black Hair Haptics: Touch and Transgressing the Black Female Body
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 82–96.
Published: 01 September 2018
... touching or feeling entitled to explanations of their hair. Black hair wearers, especially women and particularly women with natural hair, frequently swap stories about their personal hair care regimens and, if less frequently still significantly, their shared experiences of hair violation, as the Union...
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Margaret Sanger (left) with her sister Ethel (Higgins) Byrne in court, Broo...
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in Making Democracy Real: African American Women, Birth Control, and Social Justice, 1910–1960
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Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 4. Margaret Sanger (left) with her sister Ethel (Higgins) Byrne in court, Brooklyn, New York, after indictment for violating obscenity laws for sending “indecent” materials through the mail in the form of her radical newspaper The Woman Rebel , 1916. Margaret Sanger Papers, SSC.
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Introduction: Conference-Making
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 87–93.
Published: 01 March 2004
... of Iraq, based partly on the rationale ofliberating the Iraqi people from the human rights violations perpetrated by an abusive dictator. Nine days later, the second annual New England Women's Studies Association's (NEWSA) conference took place at Suffolk University's Law School, while across Tremont...
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Gendered Casualties: Memoirs in Activism and the Problem of Representing Violence
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 174–204.
Published: 01 March 2013
... and burning among tires, there was an image of an unidentified young woman who was killed and sexually violated. These images appeared in underground activist publications (Winichakul 1988). In nineteenth-century Siam, rape was legally only a personal offense depending on the woman's class status. Tamara Loos...
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Contemporarity: Sufficiency in a Radical African Feminist Life
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 415–431.
Published: 01 November 2018
... for as long as I came to feminist consciousness. Take, for example, the vexatious persistence and escalation of hetero-impunity and violation against mainly females of all ages. For many years in my activist writing and engagement with this expression of patriarchal supremacy, I felt the injustice of sexual...
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Legislative Tactics in a Movement Strategy: The Economic Human Rights-Pennsylvania Campaign
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 108–113.
Published: 01 March 2004
...: how to document rights violations, and how to organize hearings in key areas, especially rural areas and small cities. The hearings then brought together social workers, other professionals and advocates, and the people with whom they were working as "clients" to bear witness to economic human rights...
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Beyond the Politics of Inclusion: Violence against Women of Color and Human Rights
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 120–124.
Published: 01 March 2004
... human rights law dictates, states are mandated to address the continuing effects of human rights violations. Hence, the United States violates international human rights law when it de-funds anti-violence programs. INTERNATIONAL FEMINISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS 123 For indigenous women and women of color...
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Reflections of a Human Rights Educator
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 124–128.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Dazón Dixon Diallo Copyright © 2004 by Smith College 2004 For indigenous women and women of color in general, sexual and domestic violence are clearly the continuing effects of human rights violations perpetrated by U.S. state policy. Conclusion For too long, women of color have been forced...
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Telling Stories of Trafficking: The Politics of Legibility
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 201–207.
Published: 01 March 2014
... legible as a human-rights issue actually helps attach value to it, both in terms of the attention it receives and the financial resources it garners. As Sally Engle Merry and Peggy Levitt describe, "Human rights emerge over time from social movements that name and describe a violation, gather information...
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Not No Rapunzel: The House on Mango Street’ s Revised Ever After
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 October 2020
... a space for lewd sexual invitations from young men” and “leads to violation and abandonment”; drawing from Paz’s deconstruction of la Malinche as la chingada (the fucked one), Petty labels Marin’s perceived dependence passive. But there is nothing about Marin’s behavior that should invite lewdness...
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“Counter Me!”: Militarization, Postcoloniality, and the Poetics of Historical Experience in Mahasweta Devi’s “Draupadi”
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Meridians (2025) 24 (1): 190–213.
Published: 01 April 2025
... soldiers to rape her, saying, “make her. Do the needful ” (Devi 1990 : 160). The story ends the following morning when Dopdi refuses to clothe herself, walks up to Senanayak, and demands his attention to the wounds of her violation. In this story, Devi turns the revolutionary event of peasant revolt...
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Contesting Militarized Violence in “Northeast India”: Women Poets against Conflict
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 53–83.
Published: 01 April 2021
...-swollen rivers and streams (158). Nature carries the visible wounds of conflict in sensorial form as a “lost landscape of time” that is denied its immanence through violation (Dai 2014: 11). At the same time, this devastation is an indictment of human callousness, waste, greed, and the abusive...
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The Violence of Memory: Renarrating Partition Violence in Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the Body Remembers
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 September 2011
... by widows upon the death of their husbands) to jauhar, a form of mass suicide by immolation supposedly committed by Rajput women in medieval India in order to avoid capture and violation by enemy Muslim armies. The suicides of women during the Partition fit quite neatly within these heroic narratives...
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Dissidence, Creativity, and Embargo Art in Nuha Al-Radi's Baghdad Diaries
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 220–235.
Published: 01 March 2006
... for a compromise" (2003a, 9). Embargo art reflects the trauma of a vandalized nation, the artistic projection of traumatic memory as a living text of defilement and violation. The artist later explains the explicit political symbolism of her work to an uninterested CNN reporter by demonstrating how her work goes...
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