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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 66–90.
Published: 01 September 2011
... essentially disappeared from the U.S. imagination. A rhetorical analysis of the U.S. popular press about Winnie Mandela reveals that although she was primarily seen as Mother of the Nation in South Africa, in the U.S. she was constructed as a rhetorical widow. A rhetorical widow is a woman, widowed...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 204–249.
Published: 01 March 2003
... and theoretical contextualization of women and development in Nepal, the remaining sections of this article analyze the rhetorical and actual battle for control of the organization's funds, activities, and goals. This analysis is drawn primarily from written records representing the conflicting perspectives...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 99–122.
Published: 01 September 2014
... newspapers and William Still's social history The Underground Rail Road (1872) to reveal how antislavery culture wavered in its representation of single black women. On one hand, antislavery rhetoric emphasized black marriage as the epitome of civic freedom, while on the other hand admitting that women...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 26–40.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Banu Subramaniam Copyright © 2001 by Wesleyan University Press 2001 ESSAY The Aliens HaveLanded! Reflections on the Rhetoric of Biological Invasions BANU SUBRAMANIAM Two years ago in a special issue on Biolo9icaIlnvadersin the prestigious journal Sciencea,n article begins as follows: One...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 164–188.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of the global North even today. Such imperial feminist discourse on women in Egypt was blatant in Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's December 2011 announcement of the National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security at Georgetown University, as well as in the rhetoric of Laura Bush, Cherie Booth...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 218–242.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Bonnie J. Williams-Farrier Abstract Code-switching and code-meshing pedagogies, though they are two vastly different approaches, do not consider that some features of African American Verbal Tradition (AVT) are and/or have become rhetorically effective mainstream communication structures...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 353–381.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Selina Makana Abstract The assertion that the mid-twentieth century Black freedom struggles across the African diaspora was a masculine era is one that continues to strike a chord with many African women whose voices have remained absent from the rhetoric on national liberation struggles across...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 484–507.
Published: 01 December 2020
... about Muslim women have also marked the rhetoric of Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, Cherie Booth, and Condoleezza Rice. In contrast, this article draws on various photographic counter-narratives, among them “the girl in the blue bra,” that transnational feminists circulated through social media during...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 123–154.
Published: 01 April 2022
...-definition as a “radicalized” social scientist who sheds light on academic feminism’s blindspots and who applauds the revolutionary recognition of Cuban culture as “Latin-African.” Casal forges decolonial tools for dismantling the master’s house by adapting feminist rhetorical strategies of self-inscription...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 236–260.
Published: 01 September 2008
... to the series of articles published by Essencet,his essay engages the politics of black women's respectability as it played out in the rhetorical space created by the Essencescribble boards. I am particularly interested in the discursive representation constructed by black women in opposition to dominant...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 1–36.
Published: 01 September 2018
... control of feminism-when the universal category of"woman" around which the field initially seemed to cohere became complicated by uneven dynamics of social difference (see Hemmings 20n). Enunciated initially in texts during the 1990s, rhetorical techniques aimed at distortingintersectionalithyave become...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 332–359.
Published: 01 October 2024
... corporations, we are investigating how their rhetoric of conscious and conscientious consumption uses the same set of keywords to do a kind of public relations damage control for global capitalism. We narrowed these twelve corporations based on their presence and publicity on social media, their large US...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 413–435.
Published: 01 October 2022
... incite a necessary crisis in the invention and interpretation of the scene of creative production, a problem that Black scholars have used to rethink capitalist structures of valuation as racial (Robinson 2020 ; Hartman 1997 ; Moten 2003 ). Far from an Aristotelian rhetor searching for the best way...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 463–483.
Published: 01 December 2020
... to understand that references to Tubman as exceptional can also indirectly buttress hegemony and serve to further pathologize those who could not resist in the same manner, or with the same toughness of mind, spirit, and body. The heroic rhetorics and individualist lenses frequently applied to Tubman ignore...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 28–49.
Published: 01 September 2014
... and serve to further pathologize those who could not resist in the same manner, or with the same toughness of mind, spirit, and body. The heroic rhetorics and individualist lenses frequently applied to Tubman ignore much painstaking research that has been done to render visible less overt, though equally...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 226–256.
Published: 01 September 2004
... for an avant-garde global identity. Women stand at the forefront of transnational forms oflife, and as the rhetoric of childbearing suggests, they control the reproduction of this world without borders. In this essay, I explore how cosmopolitan feminist visions of motherhood and fertility emerge in the fiction...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): ix–xii.
Published: 01 September 2001
... on the rhetoric ofbiological invasions; Sharon Hom's piece on the interconnections among biography, identity, place and globalization; and Lisa Suhair Majaj's reflections on writing and return, in her case, to Palestine. All of these essays hint at the significance oflinking the domestic with the transnational...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 137–167.
Published: 01 March 2004
... agency working in a largely Muslim slum area in Kolkata, 1 and for the women who live there. Lila Abu-Lughod, commenting on American claims of"liberating" and "saving" Afghan women in its "war on terror" against the Taliban, refers to the old history of such rhetoric from the West (Abu-Lughod 2002...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 340–362.
Published: 01 December 2020
... women do not identify with the pro-choice message; in fact, the choice rhetoric is almost meaningless (PEP 1997 ; 2004 ). Reproductive justice activists believe that this new framework will encourage more women of color and other marginalized groups to become more involved in the political movement...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 185–205.
Published: 01 April 2022
... ) and the film Paris Is Burning (Livingston 1990 ) for more information on “reading.” Unlike ritualized rhetorical emasculation, which is directed from a woman to a man, reading can be done by men, women, or nonbinary individuals. Anyone can read anyone else. 1 Although I use the term intersectional...
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