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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 82–96.
Published: 01 September 2018
... of blackness as inviolable, devalued, and curious and that transgress social scripts of appropriate interpersonal behavior. Black hair haptics are alluring to members both outside of and within black communities; as a result, countless black hair wearers are forced to navigate scenarios involving individuals...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 205–217.
Published: 01 December 2016
... and well-being, Black women begin to strengthen relational and shared experiences and promote agentic health behaviors as an act of social justice. Additionally, this essay includes a lesson plan outline that provides outcomes, strategies, and assessments for teachers to design a lesson plan...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 127–150.
Published: 01 April 2021
... questions, though, which point to what dance and womanhood then, in a 1938 film, had to do with dance and womanhood now, as it did in that moment with Raghu. We can trace these patterns to the kinds of behavior Sundaramma and Padmavati Devi picturized in Raitu bidda : mothers who don’t dance, but who...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 94–114.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of by their husbands for failing to fulfill feminized marital duties), and unable to control their impulsive behavior. While global neoliberal economies favoring Western states are triggering migratory movements and dislocating workers transnationally, most of these nations support the movement of capital and consumer...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 113–126.
Published: 01 September 2001
... Jerusalem, from going home. 5 Perhaps in response, some displace the dream of repatriation with the attempt to recreate Palestinian culture in the diaspora. Preserving traditions of food, cultural practices, social behaviors, family roles and the like, they seek to preserve the homeland in the only space...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 112–126.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Israel and the Occupied Territories, including East Jerusalem, from going home. 5 Perhaps in response, some displace the dream of repatriation with the attempt to recreate Palestinian culture in the diaspora. Preserving traditions of food, cultural practices, social behaviors, family roles...
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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 57–82.
Published: 01 March 2005
... of social behavior. TRANSNATIONAL FEMINISM AS CRITICAL PRACTICE 59 I draw on Kandiyoti's insights to highlight the differential relationship of women in different contexts to the traditions ofliberal democracy, pluralism, and fundamental rights. Transnational feminism must steer clear of both cultural...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 370–395.
Published: 01 October 2021
... in South Asia is better thought of as an ethos —a term ubiquitous among South Asian users of English to describe the “secular.” Ethos is defined by the Cambridge English Dictionary as “the set of beliefs, ideas, etc. about the social behavior and relationships of a person or group,” 15...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 11–38.
Published: 01 April 2021
... within the community is also reinforced through the policing of social behavior, and because of the emotional and logistical costs of exiting the community (55). Among a different segment of the diaspora, a transnational class of Indian information technology workers, narratives of home and family...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 78–92.
Published: 01 March 2006
... they create and perform, are committing outrageous acts that cause genuine social awareness and change. One of the most striking, and risky, forms of dissidence that North African women dramatists employ is the choice to portray-or participate in-behavior that is considered outrageous by the societies...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 308–325.
Published: 01 March 2018
... the ways that mainstream behavior change theories fall short when programs based on those theories intend to serve marginalized audiences such as youth who are people of color, disabled, and/or lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and/or transgender? Social learning theory, social cognitive theory...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 106–123.
Published: 01 March 2010
... gives her young charge space and permission to have some control over her body. It is the same body, then, that is the site of such anxiety about sexuality, domesticity, and socially appropriate behavior that the girl is able to manipulate to ensure that the community sees what it desires. The child...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 227–233.
Published: 01 March 2014
... obstacles to service as possible. Clients aren't required to make agendas or timetables to change whatever behavior society or the social worker views as "unhealthy" or "problematic." Services are not time-limited and there are no hard-and-fast rules about missing appointments. We understand that people...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 28–51.
Published: 01 March 2003
... abounds in political popular discourses and the female body becomes the terrain on which nationalist distinctions are made visible. Dress, behavior, and 34 NELUKA SILVA eating habits fix a certain formof essential femininity "in terms of certain culturally visible signifiers," all of which are mapped onto...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 253–259.
Published: 01 March 2018
... their health right where they are. BWHI is using this information to create links between emotional and physical wellness in order to develop predictive behavior profiles a new evidence base for wellness and equality in health. To start this effort, BWHI published a groundbreaking report, IndexUS: What Healthy...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 211–235.
Published: 01 September 2008
... 1979; Kaufman and Fetters 1980; Chusmir, Koberg, and Mills 2001; van Vianen and Fischer 2002), and that women who achieve senior management positions will adopt masculine behavior characteristics (Hare, Koenings, and Hare 1997). These characteristics include the promotion of independence, autonomy...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 149–201.
Published: 01 April 2020
... think that he allowed me to hobnob with prostitutes.” Maritza was under constant public surveillance. Similar to the colonial era, social opinion continued to serve a policing function of “appropriate” gendered behavior. Any public rumor, no matter how unsubstantiated, about Maritza’s behavior put her...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 236–260.
Published: 01 September 2008
..., as a black woman, for how one's behavior might have negative consequences for other black women is a violation of social allegiance that can result in censure and disavowal. Conclusion The debate occurring on the Essencescribble boards in response to the sexism and misogyny in hip-hop is a necessary...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 333–342.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., I wanted to understand (and help others to understand) the important cultural factors that influence emotions, attitudes, and patterns of behavior and health in African American women. As a student pursuing a doctoral degree in social and health psychology, I worked on Dr. Marci Lobel's research...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 93–129.
Published: 01 September 2008
..., classist, and sexist reactions to wukking up in Caribbean communities, all of which I will engage more fully throughout this essay. Such ambivalent moments conjure memories of my Barbadian childhood when my friends and I would dance "freely" to calypso in the absence of adults, exuding "womanish" behavior...