... COUNTERPOINTS ArnaAtaAidoo, EdnaAcosta-Belen, AmritaBasu,MaryseConde,Nell Painter, andNawalEl Saadawispeakon feminism, race,and transnationalism In thesummerof 1999, membersof theMERIDIANeSditorialgroupinterviewed jivefeministactivists,academicasndwriterswhoserveon ourfoundingadvisory...

... immigration, movement, and interaction occurred. She demonstrated a keen awareness of her political agency to pit the United States and British Empire against each other for the best possible outcomes. Tubman's transnationalism was a major component of who she was, and it should not be neglected. Someone...

... in government policy. LEIGH JOHNSON CovertWarsin the Bedroomand Nation:Motherwork, Transnationalism,and Domestic Violencein BlackWidow'sWardrobe andMotheTr ongue Abstract: Thisarticlearguetshat, asatoolfor sociajlusticeandresistancet,heconcepot fmotherwork canbeusefullyappliedto twotextsbyChicanawriters...

..." (Yoneyama 1999, 57) of the movement for redress for comfort women, that is, the WRITING RAPE, TRAUMA, AND TRANSNATIONALITY ONTO THE FEMALE BODY 73 emphasis on the U.S. government's role as political liberator and legal mediator in the matter of ongoing negotiations between Japan and the surviving comfort...

...Sam Vásquez Abstract Paule Marshall’s short story “To Da-duh” offers a pioneering theorization of transnationalism for black Caribbean women, particularly Barbadian women. Examining black female characters’ navigation of archetypcal environments in symbolically loaded vehicles and interrogating...

...Elisabeth Armstrong Abstract In 1949, at a conference instigated by the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF) held in Beijing, China, the Asian Women’s Conference solidified an anticolonial, antifascist, and antiracist theory for organizing women transnationally. This transnational...

...Amrita Basu; Paula Giddings; Inderpal Grewal; Kamala Visweswaran Abstract The links among feminism, race, and transnationalism, which are key to the Meridians project, are also crucial to understanding the events of 9/11 and the war on Afghanistan. Some pieces in this archive provide feminist...

... of Cosmopolitan and skin-tanning products in the American version of Cosmopolitan, the author points out the construction of “cosmopolitan whiteness.” Whiteness is not simply racialized or nationalized as such, but transnationalized. Whiteness is represented as “cosmopolitanness,” embodying transnational mobility...

... advertisements for skin-whitening products in the Indonesian version of Cosmopolitan and skin-tanning products in the American version of Cosmopolitan , I point out the construction of “cosmopolitan whiteness.” Whiteness is not simply racialized or nationalized as such, but transnationalized. Whiteness...

..., transnationalism 1 , no. 1 : ix – xv . Ahmed Sara . 2006 . “ The Nonperformativity of Antiracism .” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 7 , no. 1 : 104 – 26 . Alsultany Evelyn . 2020 . “ Islamophobia in the U.S. Did Not Start with Trump, but His Tweets Perpetuate a Long...

..., yet the greatest representation of East Asian women on the Internet is as subjects of porn sites (Walker 1999). It is these unexpected and unpredictable outcomes of globalization and transnationalism that I hope will be discussed in the pages of the journal. As the first full-time editor of MeridiansI...

..., of the causes in history, in the past, in the present.” “So transnationalism is to work and to fight and to struggle for justice, freedom— transnationally.” —Nawal El Saadawi This issue coincides with the twentieth anniversary of the United States’ initiation of the “war on terror” launched...

... that intersectionality and transnationalism together offered a powerful corrective to the particular paradigms of earlier race and ethnic studies, area studies, and women’s studies (Candelario 2017 : 236–39). It was within this historic context that professors Ann Arnett Ferguson, Nancy Saporta Sternbach...

... of feminist scholars whose work centered political economy and performance; postcoloniality and empire; racialization and indigeneity; as well as traversed borders of nation, ideology, space, and time. Our intellectual praxis unfolded at the intersections of transnationalism and feminisms, yet the field...

... by the patriarchal society in which it must flourish, is one based on "fusion or over-identification . . . not sisterhood" and there is a difference. Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism i3, no. 2 (2016): v vii. Copyright © 2016 Smith College. doi:to.2979/meridians.13.2.ot The coming-of-age narrative...

... the transnationalism of the 'gos and the feminism of the '6os and '70s, when Robin Morgan aptly and controversially claimed, "Sisterhood Is Global?" Mypoint of departure is an anthology of writings I edited in preparation for the 1995Beijingwomen's conference entitled TheChallengoef LocalFeminisms:Women'sMovementsin...

... be gained from drawing on the wide range of feminist analyses that Meridiansprovides? The subtitle of the journal-"feminism, race, transnationalism"-provides some clues because each of these three elements directs the gaze to different yet connected aspects of critical writing. Feminist analyses, and I here...

... but translated and engaged with transnationally, with consequential effects all around. Similarly Miglena S. Todorova tells the story of African American women, such as Angela Davis, who traveled to the Soviet Union in the 1970s as part of a broader history ofBlack internationalism and traveling US feminist...

... conditions the articulation ofpuerto Rican identity. "Maroon Abolitionists," by Julia Sudbury, examines the gender- and trans-gendered experiences of black women activists involved in the anti-prison movement. In this essay, the author makes visible the reality of [Meridians:feminismra, ce,transnationalism...