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Reclaiming Third World Feminism: or Why Transnational Feminism Needs Third World Feminism

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Ranjoo Seodu Herr
Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 1–30.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.12.1.1
Published: 01 March 2014
...Ranjoo Seodu Herr Abstract Third World and transnational feminisms have emerged in opposition to white second-wave feminists' single-pronged analyses of gender oppression that elided Third World women's multiple and complex oppressions in their various social locations. Consequently...
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Breaking Silences: A Contemporary Black Feminist Reading of Rebecca Walker’s Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood after a Lifetime of Ambivalence

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Cheryl R. Hopson
Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 227–243.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-7297224
Published: 01 April 2019
...Cheryl R. Hopson Abstract: The focus of this essay is a memoir of first-time biological motherhood, Baby Love , by Third Wave feminist writer and cultural critic Rebecca Walker ( 2007 ). This essay enlists a black and Third Wave feminist intersectional theoretic to argue that Walker, a famous...
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Where Author and Auteur Meet: Genre, the Erotic, and Black Female Subjectivity

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Ayesha Hardison
Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 88–120.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.12.1.88
Published: 01 March 2014
...Ayesha Hardison Abstract This essay examines black women's transition from cultural consumers to artistic producers in Martha Southgate's under-studied novel Third Girl from the Left . Analyzing the text's exploration of black women's misrepresentation in popular film and mainstream narratives...
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Figure 7. Occupy Me: Topping from the Bottom, Hushidar Mortezaie’s installation at SOMArts Cultural Center for the exhibition The Third Muslim: Queer and Trans* Muslim Narratives of Resistance and Resilience. Image courtesy of Chani Bockwinkel.

Occupy Me: Topping from the Bottom , Hushidar Mortezaie’s installation at S...

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in Searching for the Next Intifada: Exercises in Queer Muslim Futurism > Meridians
Published: 01 October 2021
Figure 7. Occupy Me: Topping from the Bottom , Hushidar Mortezaie’s installation at SOMArts Cultural Center for the exhibition The Third Muslim: Queer and Trans* Muslim Narratives of Resistance and Resilience . Image courtesy of Chani Bockwinkel. More
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Figure 8. Occupy Me: Topping from the Bottom, Hushidar Mortezaie’s installation at SOMArts Cultural Center for the exhibition The Third Muslim: Queer and Trans* Muslim Narratives of Resistance and Resilience. Image courtesy of Chani Bockwinkel.

Occupy Me: Topping from the Bottom , Hushidar Mortezaie’s installation at S...

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in Searching for the Next Intifada: Exercises in Queer Muslim Futurism > Meridians
Published: 01 October 2021
Figure 8. Occupy Me: Topping from the Bottom , Hushidar Mortezaie’s installation at SOMArts Cultural Center for the exhibition The Third Muslim: Queer and Trans* Muslim Narratives of Resistance and Resilience . Image courtesy of Chani Bockwinkel. More
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Figure 9. Occupy Me: Topping from the Bottom, Hushidar Mortezaie’s installation at SOMArts Cultural Center for the exhibition The Third Muslim: Queer and Trans* Muslim Narratives of Resistance and Resilience. Image courtesy of Chani Bockwinkel.

Occupy Me: Topping from the Bottom , Hushidar Mortezaie’s installation at S...

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in Searching for the Next Intifada: Exercises in Queer Muslim Futurism > Meridians
Published: 01 October 2021
Figure 9. Occupy Me: Topping from the Bottom , Hushidar Mortezaie’s installation at SOMArts Cultural Center for the exhibition The Third Muslim: Queer and Trans* Muslim Narratives of Resistance and Resilience . Image courtesy of Chani Bockwinkel. More
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“Under Construction”: Identifying Foundations of Hip-Hop Feminism and Exploring Bridges between Black Second-Wave and Hip-Hop Feminisms

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Whitney A. Peoples
Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 19–52.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2008.8.1.19
Published: 01 September 2008
...Whitney A. Peoples Abstract This essay seeks to explore the sociopolitical objectives of hip-hop feminism, to address the generational ruptures that those very objectives reveal, and to explore the practical and theoretical qualities that second- and third-wave generations of black feminists have...
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Glorientalization: Specters of Asia and Feminized Cyborg Workers in the US-Mexico Borderlands

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Long Thanh Bui
Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 129–156.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.13.1.129
Published: 01 September 2015
... technoculture as well as US hegemony, enabling awareness of the differential modes of oppression and collective demands for social justice by third-world laborers in the so called “Asian Century.” Copyright © 2015 by Smith College 2015 LONG THANH BUI Glorientalization: Specters of Asia and Feminized Cyborg...
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Polygamous Postcolonialism and Transnational Critique in Tess Onwueme’s The Reign of Wazobia

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Kanika Batra
Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 330–352.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.15.2.03
Published: 01 March 2017
... deploys the idea of polygamy in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah (1987) in contrast to the exploration of polygamy in Nigerian-American dramatist Tess Onwueme’s early play The Reign of Wazobia (1988) , written a year after Chinua Achebe’s novel. As a third generation African writer, and one whose...
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The Dead, the Living, and the Sacred: Patsy Mink, Antimilitarism, and Reimagining the Pacific World

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Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 304–331.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-7775729
Published: 01 October 2019
... advocacy via political liberalism provided opportunities for coalition formation yet also constrained the range of her gendered arguments and limited possible solutions beyond the U.S. polity. Third, the coalitional possibilities and incommensurabilities reveal the points of convergence and divergence...
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Listening in Arabic: Feminist Research with Syrian Refugee Mothers

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Neda Maghbouleh, Laila Omar, Melissa A. Milkie, Ito Peng
Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 482–507.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-7789739
Published: 01 October 2019
... in Arabic and English from participants’ narratives to describe how giving nuance to multiple forms of expression is key to a feminist practice of translation. Third, the authors describe how this approach opens their project to involve a range of participatory-action activities driven by the voices...
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A Structure of Terror in Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place

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Lauren E. Shoemaker
Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 85–106.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-8117735
Published: 01 April 2020
...Lauren E. Shoemaker Abstract Literature by women of the third world is capable of expressing emergent feelings attached to objects and everyday activities, which reveal underlying economic processes. One such activity that inspires diverging feelings, the Caribbean vacation, reveals a continued...
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Not No Rapunzel: The House on Mango Street’ s Revised Ever After

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Laura Halperin
Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 323–347.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-8308420
Published: 01 October 2020
... and inflects a U.S. Third World feminist analysis by examining how the narrative draws attention to the ways gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and class are entwined. Rather than view the text as an outright rejection of the dubious premises and promises provided by fairy tales—individualist, (hetero)sexist...
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Safe Motherhood Initiative: Whither African Indigenous Birthing Knowledge?

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Esther Oluwashina Ajayi-Lowo
Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 263–294.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-10926960
Published: 01 April 2024
.... Despite the campaign for sole reliance on SMI, Africa’s MMR remains the highest compared to other regions. Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, also has the third-highest MMR in the world as of 2020. This failure of SMI to reduce MMR for Nigeria and Africa more broadly calls for the inclusion...
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The Palestinian Feminist Movement and the Settler Colonial Ordeal: An Intersectional and Interdependent Framework

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Eman Alasah
Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 110–132.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-10926920
Published: 01 April 2024
... within a broader, complex matrix of power. The article positions the Palestinian feminist anticolonial struggle in relation to wider debates on Black, transnational, and Third World feminisms to contextualize the movement. The article eventually turns to contemporary examples of intersectional feminist...
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De-naming: Unraveling the Sex-Skin and Gender-Mask Technologies in the Colonial Naming Structure

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Chia-Hsu Jessica Chang
Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 417–438.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-11266372
Published: 01 October 2024
... with Naifei Ding’s concept of the “feminist knot” to analyze how this structure is reified and reproduced specifically in third-world Taiwan. It concludes with a proposal of “de-naming” as a decolonial methodology to shift away from dehumanizing names that fix a person into their sexed-and-colored skin...
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Young woman in black sweater and skirt standing on table, holding iPhone. Two other women visible to her right. Completed possum-skin cloak is visible along the bottom of the frame. Color photograph.

Resident artist Molly Mahoney standing on a table taking pictures with her ...

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in The Making Is the Story: Sovereignty, Sharing, and the Seven Sisters Cloak > Meridians
Published: 01 April 2025
Figure 8. Resident artist Molly Mahoney standing on a table taking pictures with her smartphone; Sabra Thorner in the middle taking pictures with a DSLR camera; and resident artist Kerri Clarke, seated at right. All three of us pictured are looking over at a third photographer—our collaborator More
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Practicing Transgression: Radical Women of Color for the 21st Century

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Martha Arevalo Duffield, Karina Lissette Cespedes
Meridians (2002) 3 (1): 125–132.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-3.1.125
Published: 01 September 2002
... ceased operation in 1995, and This Bridge once again was out of print. Fiveyears later, in the spring of 2000, Third Woman Press began conversations with the co-editors in order to acquire the rights to republish and thus keep This BridgeCalledMy Backin print. Both editors believed that Third Woman Press...
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Voices of Feminism: Linda Burnham

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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 189–203.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.13.2.10
Published: 01 March 2016
..., she co-founded the Women of Color Resource Center in Oakland, California, in 1989 and was its executive director for 18 years. A journalist and political activist, Burnham has been involved with the Venceremos Brigades, the Third World Women's Alliance, the Alliance Against Women's Oppression...
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Editor's Introduction

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Kum-Kum Bhavnani
Meridians (2001) 1 (2): ix–xiv.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-1.2.ix
Published: 01 March 2001
... to be able to do so only through obtaining bank loans that require them to make handicrafts to sell to tourists, thus reinscribing Eurowestern conceptions of Third World women's traditionalism. 1 Lesbian and gay groups are subject to increasing legal restrictions and monitoring in Latin America; at the same...
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