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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 30–56.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Marie Lovrod Copyright © 2005 by Smith College 2005 MARIE LOVROD ShiftingContexts,Shaping Experiences ChildAbuseSurvivoNr arratives andEducatinBfEormpire "I do not know,Zirigu,but it is certainlygoodthat all ofmy childrenareboys.It is goodI neverhada daughterB. ecauseif I hadhada daughtera...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 58–75.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Paulina de los Reyes; Diana Mulinari Abstract This article explores how young women born in Sweden, or arriving in Sweden as toddlers, who belong to the Latin American diaspora give meaning to and act on their experiences of being the daughters of migrant mothers, whose political activism shapes...
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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 (2015) 13 (1): 53–77.
Published: 01 September 2015
... reconstruction projects, symbolized by two major British government reports published in the 1940s. These are the Moyne Report (GBCO 1945), which shaped the transition of Britain's Caribbean territories from colonial to independent nations, and the Beveridge Report (Beveridge 1942), which shaped the modern...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 298–322.
Published: 01 October 2021
... story about the way Muslim lives are shaped by the discourses and representations through which they are figured and apprehended. The author explores the way that this archive of memes figures Muslims as a “measurable type”—whereby they are profiled into highly fraught categories, like “terrorist...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 158–184.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Rachel Afi Quinn Abstract Afro-Dominican singer-songwriter Xiomara Fortuna has enjoyed a career that spanned more than four decades and shaped the work of a new generation of Dominican musicians. In March 2017 she was bestowed a presidential award of honor and she accepted it barefoot, making...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 227–243.
Published: 01 April 2019
... a heterosexual nuclear family model that is informed by feminist ideology and takes shape in a twenty-first-century material reality transformed by feminism. Second to this, and in the context of her relationship with her famous African American mother, Walker characterizes the biological (black feminist) mother...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 65–85.
Published: 01 December 2016
... a broad overview of the conceptual catalysts that shape the approach of COMPUGIRLS, a National Science Foundation–funded technology program. The overview demonstrates how intersectionality and education activism can nurture the dispositions of girls of color to become techno-social change agents...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 29–59.
Published: 01 March 2013
... as they shape narratives of citizenship and belonging. Copyright © 2013 by Smith College 2013 VANITA REDDY JhumpaLahiri'sFeminist Cosmopoliticsand the TransnationalBeautyAssemblage Abstract: ThisessayexamineIsndianAmericanwriterJhumpaLahiri'sliteraryenBaBemenwtsith cosmopolitaInndianbeautyandstylein...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 360–382.
Published: 01 October 2020
.... In this article, the author argues that la lucha viequense has been fundamentally shaped by the concerns and actions of women who placed reproductive rights at the center of the struggle. Copyright © 2020 Smith College 2020 birthing practices medicalization colonial modernities Vieques Puerto Rico...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 66–67.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Abstract At the American Historical Association's 2010 meeting in San Diego, CA, historians honored the multifaceted life and work of Blanche Wiesen Cook. Jane S. De Hart examines the circumstances and choices that shaped Cook and the generation of young women historians who came of age as young...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 304–331.
Published: 01 October 2019
... the late 1960s and 1970s, Mink challenged the use of the Pacific lands, waters, and peoples as sites of military experimentation, subject to nuclear and chemical testing as well as war games. Mink’s political worldview, shaped by her experiences and understanding of the interconnectedness between human...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 446–474.
Published: 01 October 2023
... from the public imaginary of mourning and loss. It also considers how the multiple subject positions of Puerto Ricans shape belonging both locally and across transnational borders. In doing so, the author makes the case for an intersectional analysis of mass violence, mourning, and resistance, in order...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 25–48.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant Abstract In the opening decades of the twentieth century, Lucy Diggs Slowe charted new territory as the first African American dean of women. Serving in this administrative role for fifteen years at her alma mater, Howard University, Slowe introduced and shaped...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 114–146.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Aimee Carrillo Rowe Abstract This paper explores the temporal structures that shape Chicana subjectivity. The historical figure, La Malinche, is often imagined through acts of betrayal as “La Vendida” (literally the one who has been sold). I propose an alternative reading—that of “La Devuelta...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 233–245.
Published: 01 November 2018
...’ hope was to generate new readings of Africa’s history by shedding light on women’s writing and, in doing so, change assumptions of how knowledge is shaped. Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 Let me begin with my many beginnings. For the three codirectors and series editors of the four volumes...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 1–36.
Published: 01 September 2018
... of a chain of misrepresentations that continue to reverberate today through their citation, reiteration, and imitation (see Tomlinson 2013a, 2018). In practice, intersectionality informs, guides, and shapes advanced research in substantive and generative ways. But the relentless citational attack...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 397–412.
Published: 01 October 2022
... to theorize how and why her mother’s life trajectory was shaped by her strife to have a dignified death, in other words, to be able to die in Palestine. To illuminate the significance of her mother’s approach to death and its relationship to being Palestinian, being refugee, and living under colonial war...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 265–292.
Published: 01 April 2022
... minoritized women in the U.S. academy to reflect on how this colonial legacy has shaped not only their identities but also their identifications—how and with whom they identify. The authors demonstrate what they refer to as a love letter approach that enables them to foster connection, healing...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 76–93.
Published: 01 April 2023
...’ complex experiences of insecurity and community. Intersectional vulnerabilities are those risks and rewards, derived from women of color activists’ positioning in relation to race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, and legal status, which shape the possibilities of women of color’s activist labor...
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