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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 63–70.
Published: 01 March 2007
... residents. Nationally there are now more than eighttimesas many women incarcerated in state and federal prisons and local jails than there were in 1980. That means there are approximately 200,000 incarcerated women in the United States. But if you count all forms of correctional supervision-probation...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 31–62.
Published: 01 March 2009
... and family, and discusses organizations that work within this framework to challenge our nation's over-reliance on incarceration. Copyright © 2009 by Smith College 2009 ERICA R. MEINERS Never Innocent: FeminisTt roublewithSexOffender ReBistrieasndProtectionina PrisonNation ! I Abstract Usingrecenwt...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 413–435.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Kelli Moore Abstract This review essay discusses recent exhibitions and accompanying art books published at the threshold of Black philosophy and aesthetics in relation to feminist mourning practices: Nicole Fleetwood’s book and exhibition Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (2020...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 123–141.
Published: 01 September 2014
... to the struggles of today, including issues of violence, mass incarcerations, and the election of the first black president of the United States. Copyright © 2014 by Smith College 2014 What Would Harriet Do?A Legacy of Resistance and Activism A ConversatiownithBarbaraSmithand BeverlyGuy-SheftalMl, oderatedby...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 399–407.
Published: 01 October 2023
.... The conversation with Gray focuses on the ways in which her own experiences, as the child of a traumatized German Jew, intersect with those of formerly persecuted and incarcerated Tunisian women before and after the Arab Spring. What are the possibilities and limitations of restorative justice for those haunted...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2009
...,transnationalism2009, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1-29] © 2009 by Smith College. All rights reserved. 1 Since the 1970s, the exponential growth in incarceration in the U.S., combined with racial targeting in the use of state surveillance and punishment, has marked the prison as a primary site of contemporary struggles...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 137–165.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Black feminist formations arose from an intersectional analysis ofinterlocking systems of oppression, including the relations between gender and sex regulation and global capital's new regimes ofracial exploitation, of which mass incarceration is but one iteration. Mass incarceration is bluntly...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 522–547.
Published: 01 December 2020
... everywhere” (Gilmore 2007). Furthering this analysis which identifies borders and prisons as shaping this moment of global crisis, Ruth Wilson Gilmore argues that prison expansion and mass incarceration of populations deemed surplus or redundant to racial capitalism is the newest iteration of White...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 40–67.
Published: 01 March 2004
... abolitionist framework foregrounds the historical and ongoing ways in which racial and economic inequalities contribute to highly disproportionate rates of incarceration for poor people and people of color. For instance, such a framework highlights how, in the very act of declaring chattel slavery...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): ix–xii.
Published: 01 September 2001
... and Cassandra Shaylor on women's incarceration in the U.S.A.,a piece that is part of the submission of the Women of Color Resource Center in Berkeley, California, to the UNWCAR. This issue also includes the following pieces which were first presented at the Meridians ix conference: Banu Subramaniam's essay...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): ix–xiv.
Published: 01 March 2001
... and I have conversed about how feminist psychology can be shifted to engage with race and biography. Most recently, through a collaborative research project with Angela Y.Davis, I have looked at how incarcerated women in California, the Netherlands, and Cuba discuss alternatives to incarceration. During...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 86–105.
Published: 01 December 2016
... matter intersectionally-as female, queer, trans, poor, and disproportionately segregated." (Hutchinson 2015, 23) Also, intersectionality has been critical to highlighting connections between diverse issues, such as mass incarceration and mass deportation within the movement (Asoka 2015, 59). As a concept...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): v–vi.
Published: 01 March 2009
... to the protected categories of childhood and motherhood; and utilizes a feminist framework to challenge the nation's reliance on incarceration. Poets Tara Betts ("AllThat White," "Zora Neale Hurston," "Marian Anderson's VoiceCarries") and Veronica Golas ("Two. Because Poems Are") render provocative visions...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): v–vi.
Published: 01 March 2006
... for "alleged crimes against the state" under the regime of Anwar el Sadat. Possessing while incarcerated only a stubby black eyebrow pencil and a small roll of tattered toilet paper, she continued to write, and on her release she published Memoirfstom theWomen'sPrison, which continues her criticism...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 236–264.
Published: 01 April 2022
... not meet global workplace standards for postnatal mothers, pregnant women, and women with family care needs (United Nations Working Group 2015 ). Furthermore, because of mass incarceration of Black men, Black women’s responsibilities to economically provide for their families are heightened, including...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 213–215.
Published: 01 September 2000
... research project with Angela Y.Davis on incarcerated women. GI NETTACANDELARIOis an instructor in sociology and Latin American and Latina/a studies at Smith College and a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the City University of New York Graduate School. She has published articles on Dominican racial identity...
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): v–vii.
Published: 01 March 2007
... project, Gilman juxtaposes incompatible perspectives and political commitments that emerge in real-life interactions. The real-life interactions of mothers domiciled in prison is strikinglyand disturbingly-presented by Rickie Solinger in this art essay entitled, "Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 76–79.
Published: 01 June 2016
..., as we represent 60 percent of the incarcerated women in this country. As we engage in solitary battles for justice in the middle of extreme racial violence, we also denounce the cruelty of domestic violence, which causes abuse and death among black women and goes unmentioned in official...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 209–236.
Published: 01 April 2020
... solidarity across movements. It is pointing to various forms of state-led family separations— from mass incarceration and deportations, to poverty wages and homelessness (for discussions of political strategy, see Powell 2018 ; Schwartz and Young 2015 ). As we defend the right to family unity and as we...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 78–92.
Published: 01 March 2006
... In English, her play is titled TwelveWomenin a Cell(1994). I know of no record of it having been performed in Egypt, but it was produced by the Arcola Theatre in London in 2004 (Arcola 2005). It is a semiautobiographical dramatization of Dr. el Saadawi's incarceration in the women's prison at Qanatir...
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