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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 361–375.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Selina Makana Abstract This essay reflects upon both the predicaments and the promises of feminist ethnography in contemporary Africa from the position of an African feminist researcher. Two key questions guide the analysis: What are productive ways to respond to feminist critiques of representing...
View articletitled, Contested Encounters: Toward a Twenty-First-Century African <span class="search-highlight">Feminist</span> <span class="search-highlight">Ethnography</span>
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 224–226.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., Massachusetts. Her fields ofinterest include critical development studies, third world/ transnational feminisms, and feminist ethnography. Currently she is working on a book-length project entitled "'Transnationalism Reversed': Development and Women's Activism in Bangladesh." KATHYL. GLASSis Assistant Professor...
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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 149–175.
Published: 01 March 2005
....9tao represent the complex project of giving voice without losing her own voice in the process. Like the images ofTranslatedWomanand WomenWritin.9Culturet,he front cover of the tenth-anniversary edition of TranslatedWoman(2003) further illuminates Behar's personal approach to feminist ethnography...
View articletitled, Coyotes, Comadres, y Colegas : Theorizing the Personal in Ruth Behar's Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 219–231.
Published: 01 November 2018
... it means for women whose realities diverge and divide to grasp onto “the single holding thread: the warmth of sisterhood.” Selina Makana thoughtfully reflects upon the predicaments and promises of African feminist ethnography. Makana is a Kenyan scholar who researches women and war in Angola...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 157–185.
Published: 01 September 2015
... by the state, by members of the nontribal and savarna caste communities, or by other members of the tribe in question. At the same time, working with the (im)possibility of discussing agency in the event of death presents a particularly potent challenge for feminist ethnographies ofviolence. Obviously...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 127–150.
Published: 01 April 2021
... quarters open. I understood, of course. He and I were both aware of the unspoken judgment that would be levied against me if he were seen speaking to me, a woman, in his room. dance gender ethnography Telugu cinema transnational feminist praxis Copyright © 2021 Smith College 2021 ...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 363–372.
Published: 01 March 2018
.... Copyright @ 2018 Smith College. doi: to.2979/meridians.16.2.17 363 My Positionality I've been particularly moved by the poetry of Nikki Giovanni, the ethnographies crafted by Zora Neale Hurston, the stories told by Sista Souljah, the song lyrics of Erykah Badu and the rap lyrics of Jean Grae. Because...
View articletitled, “To My Girls in Therapy, See Imma Tell You This fo Free . . .”: Black Millennial Women Speaking Truth to Power in and across the Digital Landscape
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 310–339.
Published: 01 December 2020
... will briefly examine two contemporary ethnographies of Native American women that are not straight personal narratives or segregated case studies in academic volumes. The ethnographies proactively engage feminist theories and attempt to address the problems inherent in semiotic and ontological differences. My...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2009
...),and identity claims (including art-making and performance). Myparameters locate this discussion in light of ethnography, feminist literature, indigenous rights discourses, and cultural theory. Although parallel developments in feminist art history may be pertinent to this exercise, the field's current lack...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 219–240.
Published: 01 September 2001
... RODHAM CLINTON'S ORIENT 239 Shohat, Ella. 1991. "Gender and the Culture of Empire: Toward a Feminist Ethnography of the Cinema." QuarterlyReviewofFilmandVideo13, 1-3: 45-84. 1998. "Introduction." In Talkin9Visions:MulticulturalFeminismin a TransnationalA9e,edited by Ella Shohat, 1-62. Cambridge: MIT...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 295–307.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of pleasure" from Black feminist perspectives, following Joan Morgan's (2015, 36) call to address the diasporic potentiality of pleasure as a theoretical strategy of resistance for Black women in the United States and the Caribbean. This area of scholarship urges us to consider the liberatory potential...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 130–153.
Published: 01 March 2001
... Thompson's MotheringWithouta CompassA: WhiteMother'sLove,A BlackSon's Courag(eUniversity of Minnesota Press, 2000). While these memoirs offer important theoretical insights there remain few, if any, feminist ethnographies or social science analyses that consider transracial mothers' collective experiences...
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 143–162.
Published: 01 March 2007
...., yet the experiences I discuss will likely also apply to other scholars and activists doing feminist research in their communities or countries. Conducting fieldwork away from one's own society is still the norm among anthropologists, but the meanings attached to the field of ethnography...
View articletitled, Going Home: A <span class="search-highlight">Feminist</span> Anthropologist's Reflections on Dilemmas of Power and Positionality in the Field
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 297–322.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Dia Da Costa Abstract This article combines historical and life-writing approaches to demonstrate how caste is made invisible in histories and structures of education, canonical knowledge, and research. As a dominant-caste ( savarna ) Bengali academic, the author follows caste-oppressed feminists...
View articletitled, Writing Castelessly: Brahminical Supremacy in Education, <span class="search-highlight">Feminist</span> Knowledge, and Research
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 231–233.
Published: 01 April 2023
... does loss tear a hole in the world and produce a collective remaking of a new social order in which grief-work is not contained singularly but is a process done in feminist, queer, and Black and Brown ensemble? Interested in how we deliberately incorporate loss into collective grief-work, this article...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 40–65.
Published: 01 September 2004
...,transnationalism2004, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 40-65] ©2004 by Smith College. All rights reserved. 40 1997; Hall 1989, 1995; Hintzen 2001). At the same time, feminist analyses of Caribbean and U.S. women of color's fictional writing (Chancy 1997; Davies 1994; Rubenstein 2001; Wiley and Barnes 1996) and critical feminist...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 75–100.
Published: 01 April 2022
...—birthdays, academic accomplishments, and life milestones. We traveled together, sometimes simply to a local workout class, other times halfway across the world. These intentional acts of love and care helped us cultivate our own Black feminist praxis through which we devised Black/Girlhood Imaginary...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 209–211.
Published: 01 March 2001
... at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, while on leave from the Women's Studies Department at the University of Colorado. She is editor of Global SexWorkers:Ri9hts, Resistanceand Redejinitionand Sun, Sexand Gold:Tourismand SexWorkin the Caribbean.She is a long time activist with feminist organizations...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 253–260.
Published: 01 October 2019
... of feminist scholars whose work centered political economy and performance; postcoloniality and empire; racialization and indigeneity; as well as traversed borders of nation, ideology, space, and time. Our intellectual praxis unfolded at the intersections of transnationalism and feminisms, yet the field...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 330–352.
Published: 01 March 2017
... involving sexual and economic relations, a discussion of polygamy in Wazobia is crucial to examining the interplay of gender, sexuality, and political power in Nigeria during the late 1980s when Achebe’s novel and Onwueme’s play were first published. Nigerian feminist anthropological and sociological...
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