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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 261–292.
Published: 01 September 2008
... authority, legitimacy, legibility, and power. Hip-hop porn provides black women and men an arena for labor and accumulation as well as self-presentation, mediation, and mobility. As a space for work, survival, consumption, and identity-formation, the genre proffers an opportunity to explore the gendering...
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2007
... to discussing gender, sexuality, and power by female rappers of Mexican descent. The concepts of “the erotic” and “porn” are used to describe and examine the work of these two artists. Like feminists of color before her, JV invokes the power of the erotic to challenge male-centered discussions of sexuality...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 293–321.
Published: 01 September 2008
... to pornography, its inherent conflict with media deregulation, and how these systems have shaped an atmosphere that helped unite pop culture with porn culture. Next, I discuss why women in popular music play such an integral role in the mainstreaming of pornography. I then deconstruct commercials and videos...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 161–168.
Published: 01 September 2014
...." Then again, this is what porn culture will do to one's perspective-something Simmons has perpetuated in his decadeslong involvement with sexist rap music and culture. Just reading about the video's premise was enough to make my blood boil, but sometimes, especially when you do media analysis as part of your...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 79–111.
Published: 01 September 2018
... themes on sex in feminist thought before.9 The very short moment right before the polarization of US feminism into so-called "pro-sex" and "anti-porn" positions is less remembered in feminist research and this wrongfully so. The legacy of this short period should be re-embraced by feminist thought...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 September 2008
... cultures as we examine genres like hip-hop music videos within a larger context of popular culture and contemporary society. "Tip Drill," a controversial music video by the rapper Nelly in 2004, is referenced in the subsequent essays. Drawing from the video's use of"soft porn" imagery and the employment...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 169–195.
Published: 01 December 2020
... read Cisneros’s essay in terms of racial castration anxiety. Cisneros’s description of her horror at the sight of the porn star’s genitals recalls a scenario imagined by Freud: the scene of castration anxiety. In Freud’s scenario, a young boy is surprised to learn that his mother does not have...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 201–224.
Published: 01 September 2004
... body (her "body-ego," in Freud's terms) reflected in a sacred icon. Perhaps paradoxically, she also constructs her self of body-ego in relation to a pornographic film featuring a white woman. Cisneros writes, "Once, watching a porn film, I saw a sight that terrified me. It was the film star's panocha...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 172–200.
Published: 01 March 2014
... minor sex trafficking in the United States. We also hear a lot about the sexualization of young girls. KEYNOTE CONVERSATION TRAFFICKING SEX 187 GUPTA:Boys are being indoctrinated through the media culture. Pornography is playing such a big role in that. India has become the third largest user of porn...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 358–371.
Published: 01 October 2019
... was rumored to watch porn on school computers, was not in the room at the time. The fat kid remembered he had deducted five points on a lab report because she did not underline a heading word with a ruler; she had done so by hand. She retaliated by naming a character after him during creative writing class...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): ix–xiv.
Published: 01 March 2001
..., yet the greatest representation of East Asian women on the Internet is as subjects of porn sites (Walker 1999). It is these unexpected and unpredictable outcomes of globalization and transnationalism that I hope will be discussed in the pages of the journal. As the first full-time editor of MeridiansI...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 152–160.
Published: 01 April 2019
...-line diagram like porn, trying to understand as I unwrapped this thing and watched it expand in the flow of sink water and buried it wrapped in a mountain of toilet paper, in the trash. Ma told me, wailed at me, “These girls now, these young girls who use a tampon—there goes your virginity right...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 75–100.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., twenty-three years after Family Matters ended and twenty-eight years after Judy was pushed out, fans continue to bombard the internet with theories, criticisms, and questions about her disappearance, and also about Foxworth. Almost every internet search reveals that Foxworth dabbled in the porn...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 78–102.
Published: 01 September 2015
... to deal with you." In a single moment she goes from shy, demure, and girlish to a woman who is powerful, purposeful, and in control. Then, as Garcia makes reference to the animal-print, midriff-baring, skin-tight body suit that Belfon wears by asking "Why yuh look like a porn star so Saucy interrupts her...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 383–400.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., the gossips, on how I made the cover . . . Rap a certain way, then I’m too hardcore I rap a certain way, then I sound like porn I rap about the streets, and still I get scorned Should I sound wack and just rap some poems? I’m starting to think that if I had a penis I would make it Or if I was ugly...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 157–200.
Published: 01 September 2004
...) and a porn flick for him to function sexually. It is not until a long way into the porn flick and "the Golden Voice is singing about a pair of phoenixes flying up to heaven" that his body "begins to stir and twitch" (168). In other words, his sexual potency fails him at the presence ofU.S. imperial power...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 548–565.
Published: 01 October 2024
... Projects at a reasonable rate. Office Upstairs.” I passed the second man who yelled at me in a singsong tone, “Thesis? Articles? Papers? Upstairs! Upstairs!” with the same swiftness that his forebearers had hissed, “Foreign Music? Porn? DVD? CD?” at me a decade ago. As I turned into Apr1–1979 Street...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 73–93.
Published: 01 March 2001
... face, in the throes of a "gastro-porn" climax. Existing disparities in the global distribution of wealth are, the illustration seems intended to imply, nothing short of obscene. For this reason, it is precisely Bell and Valentine's orientation toward the global elite that renders...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 117–149.
Published: 01 March 2006
...) The figures in Amer's porn-based canvases are always female, and this is significant, not least because these figures propose and invent a sexual universe in which men are absent; in other words, it is a world existing beyond the reach of patriarchal control and influence. If the Islamic/Arabic cultural...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 466–490.
Published: 01 October 2021
... between Arab nationalities and whiteness in the United States, see Jamal and Naber 2008 , Qutami 2020 , and Bayoumi 2006 . 8 Some might read Muna’s donning of the hijab during sex acts as an extension of Orientalist fetishization of the hijab, potentially hearkening to “‘hijab porn—pornographic...