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Meridians 13:1, Paula J. Giddings

Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism

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....