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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 14–16.
Published: 01 April 2019
... of the mother. You and your sisters ask your mother if it hurts on your wedding night when your hymen is broken and she answers, it’s a membrane and it doesn’t break, just gets nudged aside, and it doesn’t hurt if you’re gentle with each other and take your time. virgin Muslim Thelma and Louise...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 80–86.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Vanara Taing Copyright © 2004 by Smith College 2004 Tomy mother,VannyPat whois a survivoroftheCambodianGenocidtehat took placeundertheKhmerRougeregimein the years1975-1979. At nineteens, he escapedonfoot to theThai-bordecrarryingmewithinher,and my sixyear-olduncle Layon hershoulders. I...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 17–40.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Marie Sarita Gaytán Abstract Hailed by fans and critics as “Mexico’s Mother,” and later “Mexico’s Grandmother,” the actor Sara García exemplified the sentimental attributes associated with notions of womanhood. As Mexico’s mother par excellence, García created multigenerational portrayals...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 401–414.
Published: 01 November 2018
... grandfather Ngũkũ would tell us, our village Kyamboo bordered Germany, and it is during one of those war days that a German mother left her child at the border while fleeing from the soldiers from Kyamboo. My grandfather, having been one of the soldiers, would then save the young German boy and bring him home...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 480–505.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Patricia Ann Lott Abstract This essay analyzes Harriet E. Wilson’s Our Nig (1859) as a book of lamentations for its bereaved black subject’s mother loss, social death, and prematurely ended girlhood. More specifically, it examines a daughter’s devastation over her natal alienation, violent...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 334–349.
Published: 01 October 2022
... and binding—or, to use the language of A Mercy , the lashing—that deforms the relationship between mothers and daughters and produces an archive of intergenerational mourning that struggles to be transmitted and deciphered. This essay seeks to understand how language and affective bonds influence...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 39–48.
Published: 01 September 2018
... was in second grade. Being a child without the ability to critically process the world around me, I could not have known then what it would have meant to my Chinese immigrant mother-and what it would continue to mean-when I told her that day after school to stop speaking to me in Meridians:feminisrmac,et...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 54–76.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Ariana Vigil Abstract Relying on feminist theory concerning difference, identity, gender, and solidarity, “Transnational Community in Demetria Martínez's Mother Tongue ” reads Martínez's 1994 novel through a transnational feminist lens. I point out that Mother Tongue complicates identification...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 149–171.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Leigh Johnson Abstract This article argues that, as a tool for social justice and resistance, the concept of motherwork can be usefully applied to two texts by Chicana writers—Lucha Corpi's Black Widow's Wardrobe and Demetria Martínez's Mother Tongue . The essay draws on Patricia Hill Collins's...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 156–160.
Published: 01 September 2014
... and pretend to see the North Star or touch the sides of the trees, feeling around for moss. KARSONYA WISE WHITEHEAD FROM MATERNAL MOTHER TO JEZEBEL 157 When I got down to the lake, I would pretend that we were in the Promised Land, and I would get down on my knees and kiss the ground. I would shout, "Youall...
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Published: 01 April 2022
Figure 1. Photograph of Xiomara and her mother and sisters. Courtesy of Xiomara Fortuna.
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 December 2016
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 September 2004
... as within the genre of Asian American mother/daughter writing. "New" and "Wimmin's" Comix5 One of very few syndicated American female cartoonists, Lynda Barry is lauded for her signature storytelling and bold graphic style-what critic Bob Callahan deems her "brilliant narrative skills" (1991, 12-13...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 382.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of my sheets fresh. the intimacy of our sheets is not fresh. it is fraught with frayed dreams hung from the wispy hairs of my mother’s temples. it is softly packed away in the folds of her arms. it is wafting silently through her curtains on sunday afternoons, when the light remembers to fall through...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 130–153.
Published: 01 March 2001
... transracialmothers are often perceived as transgressivine their families and communities. Transracial mothers, that is, mothers who are socially classified as belonging to a racial group considered distinct from that of their birth children, may be subjected to forms of surveillance, discipline, and moral censure...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 512–537.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Tiffany Caesar; Desireé Melonas; Tara Jones Abstract Through the recounting of the narratives of two revolutionary Black mothers, Melissa Mckinnies and Yolanda McNair, this essay explores the ways in which Black mothers who have lost children to police violence have responded to Black maternal...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 482–507.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Neda Maghbouleh; Laila Omar; Melissa A. Milkie; Ito Peng Abstract This article reflects upon three developments emergent from a feminist approach in research with Syrian newcomer mothers in Toronto, Canada. First, a feminist approach shapes how the authors build their research team and facilitate...
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 63–70.
Published: 01 March 2007
..., as a historian, I keep focusing on this question, "Who gets to be a legitimate mother in the United States-and who does not?" I am interested in how the answers to this question are decided and enforced. What does the state have to do with it? What do individual women have to do with it? And most fundamentally...
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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 31. Mothers and children waiting to be treated at the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority traveling health clinic, Mississippi, 1938. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Health Committee. Miscellaneous Organizations Collection, SSC.
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 227–243.
Published: 01 April 2019
... second-generation black and Third Wave feminist daughter and mother, forwards a child-and-parent-centric model of motherhood that privileges biological bonds over chosen bonds (e.g., step, adoptive, othermothers) with one’s children. A self-identified bisexual woman, Walker centralizes in Baby Love...
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