Meridians 13:1

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Paula J. Giddings

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v–vii

Creation Date

9-1-2015

Publisher

Duke University Press

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Editor's Introduction to the issue archived as published.

The Smith College community has full-text access to the journal Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism.

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Journal

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Carole Boyce Davies, the eminent scholar of Caribbean and African studies, opens the issue with an analysis regarding a "shift" in African feminist discourse in her essay, "Gender/Class Intersections and African Women's Rights." Like its African American second-wave counterpart, the discourse challenged "all forms of economic and social oppression" but now emphasizes women's cultural politics over political systems. Davies explores what she calls the critical variable of class evasion....