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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 42–65.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Kimala Price Abstract Frustrated by the individualist approach of the “choice” paradigm used by the mainstream reproductive rights movement in the U.S., a growing coalition of women of color organizations and their allies have sought to redefine and broaden the scope of reproductive rights by using...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 340–362.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Kimala Price Abstract Frustrated by the individualist approach of the “choice” paradigm used by the mainstream reproductive rights movement in the United States, a growing coalition of women of color organizations and their allies have sought to redefine and broaden the scope of reproductive rights...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 41–66.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Ifi Amadiume Copyright © 2002 by Wesleyan University Press 2002 ESSAY Bodies, Choices, Globalizing Neocolonial Enchantments m IFI AMADIUME In this essay I will examine collectivist notions of women's solidarity in relation to women's power in traditional cultures and societies in Africa. My...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 66–67.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Abstract At the American Historical Association's 2010 meeting in San Diego, CA, historians honored the multifaceted life and work of Blanche Wiesen Cook. Jane S. De Hart examines the circumstances and choices that shaped Cook and the generation of young women historians who came of age as young...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 79–98.
Published: 01 March 2016
... imaginary of the altruistic adoption process. This article analyzes how Trenka's stylistic choices, such as a musical and a stand-up comedy routine, capture many Korean adoptees' life experiences. Adoptees like Trenka use life-writing to express a doubled self and to give a platform to those who are rarely...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 1–36.
Published: 01 September 2018
... on intersectionality has made the term itself seem like damaged goods, often disavowed. These practices attempt to both diminish the luster of intersectionality and co-opt its prestige in the service of a revanchist white feminism. Such efforts are not the product of individual choices and errors but rather a shared...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 235–258.
Published: 01 April 2024
...; and the platform’s role in landscapes marked by the cultural and material dispossession of Adivasis in India. Hembrom also provides insight into some of her publishing choices, the global platforms and collaborations she and adivaani have been part of, and her visions for Adivasi feminism and solidarities. Works...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 510–522.
Published: 01 October 2024
... grandmother’s birth reflected changing attitudes toward Black midwives, her great-grandmother’s choice, or a luxury afforded to her great-grandmother by her great-grandfather’s status as a Black coal miner. To analyze the decisions of the next generation of women who gave birth in her family, in this piece...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 166–188.
Published: 01 December 2016
... addresisnterrelategdlobaflorcesof domination. Introduction: What Is Reproductive Justice? In recognizing the interrelated forces of domination faced by women of color, reproductive justice moves beyond matters of individual choice and privacy central to white feminist agendas and the pro-choice movement to address the race...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 1–31.
Published: 01 March 2008
..., as in dominant white chick-lit novels themselves, power and politics are conceived exclusivelyin terms of gender and sometimes sexuality, isolated from questions of race, economics, citizenship, and globalization. Women's agency is framed simply as personal choice. Rather than "adding" race or globalization...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 329–332.
Published: 01 March 2018
... fundamental power is to choose this road or that? Toward vitality, or toward enervation? Toward life or toward death? Toward actualization or toward domestication? Every moment of every day, each of us is choosing with choices often overdetermined by a social context created to be hostile to our well-being...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 172–200.
Published: 01 March 2014
... is a grassroots organization in India that ends sex trafficking by increasing the choices for at-risk girls and women. She has strived over her twenty-five-year career to highlight the link between trafficking and prostitution laws and to lobby policy-makers to shift the blame from victims to perpetrators. She...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): v–vii.
Published: 01 March 2010
... scholarship and activism. An issue that has vexed reproductive activists of color is the fact that the discourse around "choice" has been expressed through the classic liberal framework ofindividualism and privacy. In the essay, "What is Reproductive Justice? How Women of Color Activists Are Redefining...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 128–156.
Published: 01 September 2000
... some degree of both African and European HAIR RACE-ING 145 Figure I. Perceived Prettiness with "Looks Hispanic" Ratio Prettiest rst Choice 2nd Choice 3rd Choice Looks Latina Ratio 13:13 Least Pretty 6:13 Looks Latina Ratio 4:13 1:13 Note:The images in figures r-4 are taken from these sources...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 163–197.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Asian American appointed to the Alameda County Commission on the Status of Women. She was a co-founder of the Asian Women's Shelter, the first shelter for abused Asian women in northern California, and in 1989 she helped organize Asian Pacific Islanders for Choice (APIC).From 1993 to 2000 Saika served...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 72–74.
Published: 01 March 2002
... noggin If you hate There will be a smoldering silence If you love There will also be A purifying furnace KALI·FORNIA 73 You have a surfeit of choices You have no choice A boon of blood-red hibiscus Stains the burial grounds The hurly-girly orphan bands chant Reverencteo her Reverencteo her And your flesh...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 330–352.
Published: 01 March 2017
... the throne, it is revealed that Bia's son is alive. This leads to the choice of a regent to govern the kingdom until the rightful heir comes of age. Fortuitously, the choice is Zo, who, in her new identity as King Wazobia, humbles Iyase in public by making him submit to her authority. The word 'Wazobia...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 227–243.
Published: 01 April 2019
... be the same, . . . [as biological mothers] are tuned in hormonally to what our natural children want” ( The Guardian ). Verrier (and Walker) suggest that the biological mother-child bond is instinctual, “natural,” and, as Walker argues, beyond the realm of choice, whereas the nonbiological mother-child bond...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 291–297.
Published: 01 October 2021
... that these women are forced into this attire. Niqab bans are thus purported to further gender equality. 7 In six of the liberal democracies where interview-based research has been conducted with niqab-wearing women, most have stated they made the personal choice to wear the niqab after prolonged periods...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 326–328.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and communities. 2) The basic principles protecting human, reproductive and sexual rights of women to: Define the composition and size of our families; Access responsive, competent and culturally and linguistically appropriate health care; Make informed choices about our reproductive and sexual health...