...Kum-Kum Bhavnani 3 Some have suggested to me that the use of hybridity resonates with a biologistic approach to culture, given that the term has its origins in botany and plant husbandry. I have been struck by that comment and am still struggling to find another word to capture adequately...

...Kum-Kum Bhavnani MEDIA MATTERS OrganicHybridityor Commodificationof Hybridity? Comments on MississippMi asala KUM-KUM BHAVNANI I am an Indian woman who immigrated to London, England, with her family at the age of seven and eventually exchanged her Indian passport for a British one. In September...

...Kum-Kum Bhavnani Editor'sIntroduction The end of the twentieth century marks a time of realignments in the cultural and political economies of gender throughout the world. Protests in many places against the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank have brought...

...Kum-Kum Bhavnani Copyright © 2001 by Wesleyan University Press 2001 Editor'sIntroduction The start to a second volume of a new journal is often a time when finally the editor can not only catch her breath, and perhaps even cheer, but can also reflect on the ways in which this new arrival...

...Kum-Kum Bhavnani Copyright © 2002 by Wesleyan University Press 2002 Editor'sIntroduction As I draft this introduction in early December, 2001, the twenty year war in Afghanistan continues despite some arguments that it is over because the Taliban have been routed from a few...

...Kum-Kum Bhavnani Copyright © 2002 by Wesleyan University Press 2002 ...

... by the founding local editorial board and previous editor, Kum-Kum Bhavnani. We hope this and ensuing issues will meet with the vision of the original creative energies behind Meridians. The image that graces the cover of this issue bespeaks the necessity of claiming and reclaiming the fire that has galvanized...

... Copyright © 2009 by Smith College 2009 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS OpalAdisa Elizabeth Alexander Sonia Alvarez Lisa Armstrong Kum-Kum Bhavnani Ann Boutelle Ginetta Candelario Katie Cannon Edgar Colon Monisha Das Gupta Sarah Deer Nadia Ellis Ann Arnett Ferguson Diane Fujino Johanna Garvey Ruth Gilmore...

... Copyright © 2010 by Smith College 2010 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS OpalAdisa Elizabeth Alexander Sonia Alvarez Lisa Armstrong Kum-Kum Bhavnani Ann Boutelle Ginetta Candelario Katie Cannon Edgar Colon Monisha Das Gupta Sarah Deer Nadia Ellis Ann Arnett Ferguson Diane Fujino Johanna Garvey Ruth Gilmore...

... Copyright © 2007 by Smith College 2007 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Catherine Adams Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd Bridget Anderson Frances Aparicio Frederique Apffel-Marglin Anjali Arondekar Carol Bailey Taunya Banks AmritaBasu Kum-Kum Bhavnani Karen Booth Ann Edwards Boutelle Siobhan Brooks Katie Cannon Jill...

... of institutional locations will reflect on popular culture as it shapes consciousness and provides a site for cultural interventions. In her reading of MississippMi asala,Kum-Kum Bhavnani provocatively goes against the grain of cultural critics who fault Mira Nair's Hollywood film INTRODUCTION xiii about...

...-editor of AppropriatinGg enderW: omen'sActivismandPoliticizedReligionin SouthAsia. KUM-KUM BHAVNANiis professorofsociologyandwomen'sstudiesand chair of the Women, Culture, Development Program at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is the author ofTalkingPolitics(Cambridge University Press...

..., no. r, pp. 267-270] ©2004 by Smith College. All rights reserved. 267 Bettie, Julie. WomenwithoutClass:Girls,Race,and Identity.Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Bhavnani, Kum-Kum, John Foran, and Priya Kurian, eds. FeminstFutures:ReimaginingWomen,Culture,and DevelopmentL...

... of MeridiansI, feel the responsibility-and excitement-of sustaining the journal's mission to be one of these sites. I am fortunate to inherit the editorship of a journal whose boardsespecially the editorial founding board-as well as staff, peer reviewers, and two former editors, Kum-Kum Bhavnani and Myriam J.A...

... as staff, peer reviewers, and two former editors, Kum-Kum Bhavnani and Meridians:feminismra, cet,ransnationalism16, no. 1 (2018): 214-218. Copyright© 2018 Smith College. doi: ro.2979/meridians.16.r.19 214 Myriam J. A. Chancy, have, with commitment, hard work, and skill, set Meridianson...

..., political scientist Sonia Álvarez, and younger scholars such as UC Berkeley lecturer in English Jennifer Cho. As a way of historicizing the journal’s leadership, and also because they appeared in the lists generated in phases one and two, I also decided to include works by each of Meridians ’ editors—Kum...

..., Gloria, ed. 1990. MakingFace,MakingSoul:HaciendaCaras,Creativeand CriticalPerspectivebsy FeministsofColor.San Francisco, Calif.: Aunt Lute Books. 2001. "La Consciencia de la Mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness." In FeminismandRace(Oxford Readings in Feminism), ed. Kum-Kum Bhavnani, 93107. Oxford and New...

... South Asian scholars whose location, like mine, privileges issues pertaining to transnationalism, such as the crossing of boundaries and confronting difference. These include Uma Narayan, Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Inderpal Grewal. I find that one of the most effective means...