Oct 2026· Meridians· Vol 25, pp. 495-518· 0 citations· 25 references
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Early twentieth-century feminist solidarity was ruptured by the competing interests of women’s groups locally and transnationally. The politics of the League of Nations and the desire for international representation positioned feminist groups in competition with one another. Decoloniality featured prominently in Asian women’s organizing, while colonial relationships occupied a central and complex place in transnational feminist spaces. The heterogeneity of Asian women and their diverging political interests further complicated the process of solidarity building. This article offers an analysis of the 1931 All-Asian Women’s Conference, with an emphasis on the aspiration for and challenges in building transnational feminist solidarity in this political moment. Amid growing decolonial and national movements, conference attendees grappled with the political climate, their conflicting priorities, the desire for feminist solidarity, and the urgent ambition of building a coalition that could represent their collective interests on the global stage. This article closely studies these contours, the politics of attending such spaces, and the multiple, often conflicting concerns of those that attended the conference.
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In this fascinating history of European federalism during the 1920s and 1930s, Rebecca Shriver uncovers a surprising grassroots phenomenon. Moving beyond the familiar story of elite male intellectuals, she reveals how women and feminist activists in the Pan-European Union, the New Europe Group, and the Women's Internat...
Abstract This special issue emerged from a two-pronged question: what it means to be lesbian in/from South Asia and what it means to be so in the contemporary moment. The contemporary is marked by both enduring and emergent forms of precarities, changing strategies of survival, intensified digitalization and transforma...
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Buddhist nationalism in Myanmar is often portrayed as monolithic, yet fractures persist within its core constituencies. This article examines why Rakhine nationalists, once aligned with the state's exclusionary Buddhist nationalism during the 2012 anti-Muslim violence, have become leading actors in armed resistance aga...
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