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What Is Reproductive Justice?: How Women of Color Activists Are Redefining the Pro-Choice Paradigm
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 340–362.
Published: 01 December 2020
... framework will encourage more women of color and other marginalized groups to become more involved in the political movement for reproductive freedom. Using narrative analysis, this essay explores what reproductive justice means to this movement, while placing it within the political, social, and cultural...
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What is Reproductive Justice? How Women of Color Activists Are Redefining the Pro-Choice Paradigm
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 42–65.
Published: 01 March 2010
... will encourage more women of color and other marginalized groups to become more involved in the political movement for reproductive freedom. Using narrative analysis, this essay explores what reproductive justice means to this movement, while placing it within the political, social, and cultural context from...
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Black Feminism Embodiment: A Theoretical Geography of Home, Healing, and Activism
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 373–381.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Chinyere Okafor Abstract This paper aims to uplift a story by a queer Black woman activist residing in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Using various narrative analysis techniques, this paper also explores the tales told to understand how queer people in the Caribbean create a home of recognition...
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Gender, Religious Agency, and the Subject of Al-Huda International
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 62–90.
Published: 01 March 2013
... to the domestic is configured and reconfigured in narratives of the Pakistani ulema and narratives of prominent progressive Muslim activists in Canada. My analysis of these narratives reveals the anxieties that surface and crystallize around the figure of the Al-Huda woman when analyzed against the hegemonies...
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Not No Rapunzel: The House on Mango Street’ s Revised Ever After
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 October 2020
... and inflects a U.S. Third World feminist analysis by examining how the narrative draws attention to the ways gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and class are entwined. Rather than view the text as an outright rejection of the dubious premises and promises provided by fairy tales—individualist, (hetero)sexist...
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Legal Frankensteins and Monstrous Women: Judicial Narratives of the “Family in Crisis”
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 102–129.
Published: 01 March 2009
... the family. In Part II, I develop an analysis of 498Ajurisprudence to demonstrate the role of the judiciary in sustaining the belief that women "misuse" the law. Drawing on a critical reading of these judicial narratives, I argue that Indian patriarchies are being "recast" (Sangari and Vaid 1990)in law...
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“Hello, War Brides”: Heteroglossia, Counter-Memory, and the Auto/biographical Work of Japanese War Brides
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 111–136.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Ayaka Yoshimizu Abstract This article examines “Hello, War Brides,” a series of short, auto/biographical essays authored by two Japanese war brides from the state of Washington. I view this text as a product of collaborative “memory work.” Based on a textual analysis of its narratives and form, I...
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Sexual Citizenship and Vulnerable Bodies in Makeda Silvera's The Heart Does Not Bend and Joan Riley's The Unbelonging
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 56–78.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Wiebke Beushausen Abstract This article offers a literary and cultural studies approach to sexual citizenship and belonging through a reading of the coming-of-age genre. Coming-of-age narratives, a primary mode of a womanist Caribbean diaspora poetics, offer fruitful ground for an analysis...
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Polygamous Postcolonialism and Transnational Critique in Tess Onwueme’s The Reign of Wazobia
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 330–352.
Published: 01 March 2017
... work is less well recognized than other African novelists and playwrights, Onwueme occupies a relatively marginal role in the Nigerian and African literary canon. Nevertheless her work facilitates an analysis of neocolonialism, though in contrast to Achebe’s realist narrative, her evocation of myth...
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Coming of Age with Anne Moody: Looking Within and Without for the Origins of Black Women’s Activism in the Civil Rights Movement
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 32–64.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Tracey Jean Boisseau Abstract This essay offers a close reading of Anne Moody’s widely read but under-theorized memoir of the civil rights movement, Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968). This essay’s focus mirrors a main focus in Moody’s narrative: her relationship with her mother. Much of the body...
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Black and White Women's Travel Narratives: Antebellum Explorations
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 216–222.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Daphne Lamothe Black and White Women's Travel Narratives: Antebellum Explorations . By Cheryl J. Fish . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2004 . 224 pp. Library binding, $59.95 . Copyright © 2005 by Smith College 2005 BookReview...
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An Intersectional Analysis of Sex Trafficking Films
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 208–226.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Carrie N. Baker Abstract This essay analyzes the portrayal of sex trafficking in representative dramas and documentaries, both Hollywood and independent films. The majority of these films use a rescue narrative to tell the story of sex trafficking: an innocent and naïve young woman or girl...
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“Cruel Enough to Stop the Blood”: Global Feminisms and the U.S. Body Politic, Or: “They Done Taken My Blues and Gone”
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 September 2006
... interrogation to it. However, even in these interrogations, categorical whiteness remains curiously without gender-as if engaging the epistemology of whiteness elides the distinctiveness of gender. For example, feminist scholar Robyn Wiegman's otherwise trenchant analysis of"Whiteness Studies and the Paradox...
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Beyond the Shadow: Re-scripting Race in Women's Studies
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 117–141.
Published: 01 March 2007
... inequality within the public space. The implementation of a conjunctural approach to the analysis of scripts, one that juxtaposes discrepant cultural narratives of race, serves as a critical race pedagogy that functions to expose and disrupt the effects of the discursive power of whiteness. We have some...
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“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 (2018) 16 (2): 363–372.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of oppression that reproduce practices of marginalization, silence, and erasure. To counter this, they embrace and reproduce narratives of resilience that remain pervasive in cultural and subcultural locales of their lives while also “speaking truth to power” where they work to confront their pain via radical...
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Rewriting Exile, Remapping Empire, Re-membering Home: Hualing Nieh's Mulberry and Peach
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 157–200.
Published: 01 September 2004
... (1996) analysis, in which she suggests that the obliteration of the material history ofimmigration serves as the foundation of ahistorical aestheticism that characterizes this narrative paradigm. This claim that modernist narratives of exile are predicated on the erasure of political specificities...
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She Who Returned Home: The Narrative of an Afro-Guyanese Activist
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 40–65.
Published: 01 September 2004
... and identity. Through an analysis of the life history narrative of middleclass, Afro-Guyanese political activist Andaiye, I explore the ways in which the return home is necessarily about locating oneselfin a place from which SHE WHO RETURNED HOME 41 to engage in the struggle not just for sovereignty...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 297–305.
Published: 01 October 2024
... to the colonial narrative she herself is critical of. Likewise, Aisha Upton Azzam’s analysis of the Black sorority movement’s international activism in “Enhancing Human Dignity Here and Around the World” shows “how such activism may have also implicitly employed the very neoliberal, neocolonial, and patriarchal...
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Motherwork, Daughterwork: Exploring Activist Mothering within the Latin American Diaspora in Sweden
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 58–75.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., and the nostalgic (masculinist) fantasy of a lost home. Inspired by Black feminist analysis, we understand the work of making a home (Berg 2002 ; Wearne 2020 ) and the work of preserving a home as a vital arena of solidarity and resistance. Several of the participants’ narratives link the making...
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“We Shall Have Our Manhood”: Black Macho , Black Nationalism, and the Million Man March
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 171–203.
Published: 01 March 2003
... with bringing sexism to light in the Black community in the broadest sense, he nevertheless dubbed Black Macho"an elusive work [whose] pages offer autobiography, historical information, sociology, and mere opinion dressed up to resemble analysis. It is a polemic, seriously felt, sometimes scathing, often...
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