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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 238–252.
Published: 01 March 2018
... who link arms with us to address black women’s health issues have the capacity to succeed in generating major and long-lasting improvements in black women’s health, but only if we radically shift our approach to be systems-oriented. Current approaches may produce isolated successes, but these can...
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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 19. “Plan Your Family for Health and Happiness,” a pamphlet distributed by the Division of Negro Service to current and prospective clinic patients in an effort to address frequent questions about birth control, undated. Planned Parenthood Federation of America Records (PPFA I), SSC. (See
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 261–292.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of black (post)modern desires, as well as the potential to think through historical echoes of the current controversies and debates around exactly what constitutes “appropriate” black sexuality. Even as it offers a venue for acts of self-representation, pleasure, and exchange, hip-hop porn's brand...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 31–62.
Published: 01 March 2009
... the goal of safety that these registries advance. Part two builds on this foundation to use current shifts in the juvenile justice system to investigate how race, class, and gender complicate who has access to the protected categories of childhood and motherhood, and to the characteristic of innocence...
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Institutional Strategies to Promote the Health of Black Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 276–285.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Nkiru Nnawulezi; Carolyn M. West Abstract Intimate partner violence is the use of physical, sexual, and/or psychological aggression by a current or former intimate partner as a tactic to maintain control. Abuse can have devastating long-term health consequences, including physical injuries...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 372–393.
Published: 01 October 2019
.... With a focus on intergenerational communication among feminist and Left movement participants, Brooke Lober asks Levins Morales to share her method of writing and activism, based in histories of family and place; to comment on the term and practice of “identity politics”; to assess the current upsurge...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 445–456.
Published: 01 October 2019
... interdisciplinarity in the form of a critical biomythography that weaves together scholarly analysis and poetry related to the author’s current research on the jamette women of nineteenth-century Trinidad. Copyright © 2019 Smith College 2019 7 Lorde’s work simultaneously utilizes this first definition...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 295–320.
Published: 01 October 2020
... currently working in research universities across the United States. Building on the literature on linguistic discrimination and the theoretical framing of LangCrit, the authors exemplify instances of linguistic discrimination resulting from a member of the majority culture asserting their native speaker...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 466–490.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Taneem Husain Abstract In the United States’ current cultural and political climate, stereotypes of Muslims, such as the destructive terrorist and oppressed burqa-clad woman, are ever-present. For Muslim Americans, breaking outside of these stereotypes is fraught: merely contesting...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 207–235.
Published: 01 April 2022
... imagery and the self-commodification of Black womanhood via industrialized content creation. The marketability of the current iteration of #Blackgirlmagic diminishes the possibility of radical digital praxes such as protecting and holding virtual space for unpalatable and unprofitable Black femme...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 66–90.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Linda Diane Horwitz; Catherine R. Squires Abstract Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, currently a member of the African National Congress's National Executive Committee, is most widely known as the former wife of Nelson Mandela. While she continues to be a popular politician in South Africa, she has...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2014
.... Against this current trend, this article argues for the relevance of nation-states and nationalism for transnational feminism and the urgency of reclaiming Third World feminism. Copyright © 2014 by Smith College 2014 RANJOO SEODU HERR ReclaimingThirdWorldFeminism: orWhyTransnationaFleminismNeeds...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 46–55.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Ochy Curiel; Manuela Borzone; Alexander Ponomareff Abstract This article rethinks the challenges of radical politics within a global neoliberal context by rekindling conversations about the history of Afro-Latin American women's movements. The article explores the current economic crisis and its...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 189–204.
Published: 01 December 2016
... to use along with this essay in high school and college classrooms. The lesson further explores definitions and examples of environmental racism, and asks students to research current cases of environmental injustice, use creative and analytical writing to reflect on what they’ve learned, and work...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 137–165.
Published: 01 December 2016
..., and carceral state violence: How have indigenous and race-radical feminists identified and theorized the legitimized violence of the carceral state? What questions have those diverse identifications and theoretical understandings led activist scholars currently theorizing the carceral state to ask? And what...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 184–213.
Published: 01 September 2018
... to a cisnormative understanding of feminist politics. This article advances the point that Transfeminist thought, far from forming a fringe current, possesses the potential of being strongly informative, influential, and beneficial to the study of international relations and in advocating for comprehensive gender...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 209–211.
Published: 01 March 2001
... Developmenatt the Society for International Development, Rome, Italy. She has published widely in the area of gender, culture and development (including three books edited with Zed Books, London) and is currently leading a research project with Arturo Escobar entitled "Power, Culture, Identity: Women...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 271–273.
Published: 01 September 2004
..., Cuban, and Brazilian cultural-historic themes. SHAMEEM BLACK is Assistant Professor of English at YaleUniversity. She is currently working on a manuscript about cosmopolitan poetics and transcultural imagination in contemporary literature. Her previous study of homoerotic authorial influence appeared...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 268–271.
Published: 01 March 2004
... at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Emory University and she teaches "Women's Health and Development" in Morehouse School of Medicine's Master of Public Health Program. SONIA FEIGENBAUM is currently on leave from her Assistant Professor of Spanish position at the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota. She...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 322–324.
Published: 01 September 2008
... scholarship projects. Bartlow has also worked extensively in television production and is a multiple Emmy Award winning director/writer/producer. She is currently producing the documentary Le9alRape. Contributors RONNI ARMSTEAD is a Ph.D. candidate in cultural anthropology at Duke University with a focus...
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