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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 227–233.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Crystal DeBoise Copyright © 2014 by Smith College 2014 CRYSTAL DEBOISE HumanTraffickingand SexWork: FoundationaSlocial-WorPkrinciples For over a decade, at three different agencies, I have practiced social work and case-management with survivors of human trafficking and sex workers. The first...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 54–77.
Published: 01 March 2006
... that their works were not denigrated as the fulminations of the weaker sex. The fact that Nana Asma'u needed no male disguise says a lot about the character of the intellectual and social milieu in which she operated. I will discuss the particulars of this milieu under the rubric Reading Nana Asma'u Today...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 69–86.
Published: 01 December 2020
... that “colored women lack executive ability.” 3 See Muncy 1991 , especially chapter 3, for the discussion about the development of social work. 4 See Lasch-Quinn 1993 , 16; and Phillpott 1978 , 299, for the discussion of race attitudes of the White settlement house reformers. Works Cited...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 29–50.
Published: 01 April 2024
.... This was the work of tragic plays. 13 The very meaning of tragedy comes from these plays— tragōidia , from tragos , meaning “goat,” as in the human-goat satyrs that performed between acts, and ōidē , or public performance of song. Tragedy arose in the West as a public mechanism to contain social forces...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 111–136.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., Stout notes, they work in collaboration with the local Japanese consulate to raise funds for a scholarship for American high-school students. Reflecting on her visit to the TWS and hearing from its members about their community activities, Stout states, "These women's social work should be acknowledged...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 245–268.
Published: 01 December 2016
... the scope of black feminism while pursuing her education. For example, imagine the person is a young black girl from a working class background in the United States. This particular girl reads the social world as a competitive arena where society's winners and losers are determined based on the quality...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 455–479.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Sandra Ruiz Abstract How does loss tear a hole in the world and produce a collective remaking of a new social order in which grief-work is not contained singularly but is a process done in feminist, queer, and Black and Brown ensemble? Interested in how we deliberately incorporate loss...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 81–110.
Published: 01 September 2010
... to Larsen's interface with the core concerns of the modernist literary project as well as the New Negro Movement. Moreover, Larsen's representation of the work roles available to black women reflects the tangible effects of the period's radical social changes while it illuminates the ways in which labor...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 480–505.
Published: 01 October 2022
... by racial melancholia insofar as she bewails being governed as black and covets whiteness. Nig tends to her inner wounds by mourning, but social death chokes off her measures to work through her losses. This affective asphyxiation illustrates that her psychic condition arises not from an inner inability...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 372–393.
Published: 01 October 2019
... to power, [those movements] ended up reproducing a lot of really horrible oppressive stuff and just putting different people on top. BL: For people who are new to social movement work, it can be hard to understand that all these issues are connected. Can you talk a little bit about being a feminist...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 236–264.
Published: 01 April 2022
... to highlight the compounded and interconnected discrimination they experience toward their race, gender, sexuality, and social class (Collins 2015 ). They constructed and dispersed poetry, publications, edited volumes, pamphlets, essays, and other creative works to draw attention to compounded discrimination...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 39–48.
Published: 01 September 2018
... of the racial hierarchy" as "noncitizens [and] already discredited outlaws," which in turn works to inform new immigrants, regardless of ethnicity or nationality, that negotiations for power, status, and inclusion within the complex racial and gendered social, political, and economic structures that stratify...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 279–295.
Published: 01 November 2018
... , and a feminist , and then collectively discussed these in relation to each other and the social dimensions they occupy. Even though these three identities may seem incongruent, in certain embodiments they actually inform each other. The aim of this work is for all feminists to recognize each other as comrades...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 330–352.
Published: 01 March 2017
... through negotiation, accommodation, and compromise African women working for social change build on the indigenous by defining and modulating their feminist struggle in deference to cultural and local imperatives" (2002, 378). I would like to take this definition of African feminism, retain the emphasis...
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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 (2021) 20 (2): 323–339.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Tom J. Abi Samra Abstract This article is in two parts. The first part provides an overview of the life of the Egyptian feminist Doria Shafik (1908–1975) by drawing extensively on the work of her biographer Cynthia Nelson. This allows readers unfamiliar with Shafik to understand her social...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 212–237.
Published: 01 March 2013
... the three texts that I have examined. One thing we find without much difficulty when taking these texts together is that the aims of transnational feminist activism include seeking justice for women by cross-culturally undertaking social-justice work, a project in which I would include the realm...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 62–90.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Khanum Shaikh Abstract The focus of this paper is Al-Huda International, a Pakistan-based Sunni Muslim women's organization working to bring about social reform through women's religious education. Created and led by urban, upper-class Pakistani women, Al-Huda approaches religious interpretation...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 88–117.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Karen Y. Morrison Abstract This essay describes the common concerns about the social reproduction of race found in the works of pioneering Afro-Latin American writers Maria de Fermina Reis, Irma Pedroso, Carolina Maria de Jesus and Daisy Rubiera Castillo. Each was the first African-descended woman...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 363–372.
Published: 01 March 2018
... millennial women. The interviews centered the thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, and ideologies of these millennials about their social media use in relation to themes of language, race, culture, identity, and health. Black millennial women come to know their experiences on- and off-line as real because...
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