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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 401–414.
Published: 01 November 2018
... Africa 2 : 8 – 24 . Cadigan R. J. 1998 . “ Woman-to-Woman Marriage: Practices and Benefits in Sub-Saharan Africa .” Journal of Comparative Family Studies 29 , no. 1 : 89 – 98 . Epprecht Marc . 2013 . Sexuality and Social Justice in Africa: Rethinking Homophobia and Forging...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 41–66.
Published: 01 March 2002
... on choices open to a woman wanting to leave her husband is also completely contemporary and Western as she contemplates, "There was a lot to be said for marriage, for a man one was able to rely on and cherish and all that. But when there was no such man, what should a woman do? Create the man? Take second...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 219–231.
Published: 01 November 2018
... to the accommodations that the English language demands of African experience, the essay in turn insists on recognizing the intricate African epistemologies at work within practices of “woman-to-woman marriage” that Musangi proposes can “potentially enable us to rethink community formation beyond kinship and family...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 330–352.
Published: 01 March 2017
... the Igbo, either men or women can be the head of the family since "the status of the role of head of family is genderless" and this explains the presence of the "woman-towoman marriage" among the Igbo and many other African communities. Thus she argues that by recognizing the motherhood paradigm as central...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 113–132.
Published: 01 September 2005
... time. For example, there can be more than one gender associated with biological sex, as in the case of female husbands and male daughters among the Igbo of southeastern Nigeria (Amadiume 1987). Other examples include practices of woman-to-woman marriage in parts of Kenya, which in some contexts blurs...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 99–122.
Published: 01 September 2014
... antagonizing the two statuses than about affirming the value of each. Maglina Lubovich explains that for Sedgwick, a white woman who herself remained single throughout her life, unwed women "are not simply peripheral to marriage, but actually part of its very workings and definition" (Lubovich 2008, 24...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 102–129.
Published: 01 March 2009
... to address the issue of wife-murders, or what were being referred to as "bride-burnings" (Kumari 1989).Indian Penal Code Section 304B in combination with Section II3B of the Indian Evidence Act establishes a presumption that a dowry death has occurred if a woman dies within seven years of her marriage...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 58–81.
Published: 01 September 2005
... of an arranged marriage between an Indian and an NRI), the heroine is explicitly identified with traditional Indian values. A deeply religious woman who responds to the world with child-like innocence, she is appropriately named Ganga, meaning "pure," since the Hindu goddess 62 JENNY SHARPE Ganga is synonymous...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 1–31.
Published: 01 March 2008
... ForMatrimonialPurposesi,s a woman from a wealthy Bombay family whose failure to marry before her mid-twenties leads her to migrate to New YorkCity in search of fulfillment and belonging, as well as a suitable husband. In the novel's first-person PAMELA BUTLER AND JIGNA DESAI MANOLOS, MARRIAGE, AND MANTRAS 9 narration...
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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 March 2005
... to interrogate the race and veracity of a woman. The Rhinelander case was an annulment proceeding in which wealthy, white Leonard Kip Rhinelander sued his wife, Alice Beatrice Jones, for fraud. Leonard claimed he did not know that his light-skinned wife was "colored," the daughter of [Meridians:feminismr,ace...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 133–160.
Published: 01 September 2005
... as Chinese historian, Da Yong's binary logic is deflated and in fact destroyed by the narrator's rendition of Fusang's childhood. Rather than presenting us with an individual account of one Chinese woman, the narrator constructs a composite history of Chinese women's oppression through marriage. Reflecting...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 53–77.
Published: 01 September 2015
... outside the home .. . is not and should not be the same as that of the single woman. She has other duties [Tin the next thirty years housewives as mothers have vital work to do in ensuring the adequate continuance of the British race and of British ideals in the world. (Beveridge, quoted in Jones 2001...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 11–38.
Published: 01 April 2021
... to arrange a favorable, hypergamous marriage for her sister-in-law. And she does all of this while observing purdah and being a devout and observant Muslim woman. Shandilya argues that at a historical moment when “the meaning of purdah and the zenana was being debated,” these were being depicted...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 307–329.
Published: 01 March 2017
... as Nwamgba's" (Adichie 2008). Thus slavery is not constituted as a mark ofinherent difference, or inferiority. In marriage, Ayaju's choices are limited because few freeborn men are interested in marrying a woman of slave descent; however, in other ways, Ayaju enjoys freedoms and options not available to others...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 188–212.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., sense, and an independent spirit, and its advice to women on general decorum, education, marriage, and childrearing, had won the acclaim even of social conservatives because, although authored by a woman, it was located within the tradition of an educated social superior (usually a man, but in this case...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 111–136.
Published: 01 September 2010
... hardship. In Martley's senryu, the image of Puett as a "strong woman" is presented in an analogy with wild weeds: ~1Ul'i:Oij2ttl0/a:cictft"ts!il~ Weeds, the more stamped the stronger (Stout and Martley 1985c) The story ofRyoko Trotta, who married a black man, describes the first years after her marriage...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 66–90.
Published: 01 September 2011
... through the trope of the rhetorical widow. A rhetorical widow is a woman, widowed or not, who speaks publicly because her husband is unable to speak for the family. Rhetorical widowhood, then, presents one example of a traditional female gender role used as a strategic rhetorical persona. Marriage...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 28–55.
Published: 01 March 2016
... in her title character a sort of feminist hero, a woman who is unique, independent, autonomous, bold, and who also, and perhaps more important, embodies traits that feminists encouraged in the movement; she is "completely free of ambition, with no affection for money, property or things," she is "wholly...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 1–27.
Published: 01 March 2016
... in this study offered a detailed picture of their lives as Trinidadian and Guyanese women who immigrated to the US. When asked to talk about their lives in their country of birth, most participants responded by talking about the expectation of marriage and children. The women described marriage as a woman's...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 161–182.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., email. 40 In an earlier short portion of the documentary, a dark-skinned woman of similar colored dress is seen walking beside a woman in a black sharshaf carrying a child. This black woman is tagging along carrying a basket, in a seemingly household maid–madam relationship, further pointing...
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