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The International Engagements of Working-Class Jamaican Women: Listening to Louise Bennett and Her Routes Women
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 412–434.
Published: 01 March 2017
... (1993). Attending to them is especially important because those who are unable to physically travel or migrate for work—those left behind—have often been women. In the interest of establishing additional avenues for recognizing women’s voices, the present essay examines international engagement...
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Precursor to Women of Color Feminism: The International Council of Women of the Darker Races of the World and Their Internationalist Orientation
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 271–277.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Sheilena M. Downey Works Cited Materson Lisa G. 2009 . “ African American Women’s Global Journeys and the Construction of Cross-Ethnic Racial Identity .” Women’s Studies International Forum 32 , no. 1 : 35 – 42 . Rief Michelle . 2004 . “ Thinking Locally, Acting...
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Homing with My Mother / How Women in My Family Married Women
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 401–414.
Published: 01 November 2018
... with, and against, this archival record, this essay centers one family’s recent history as a calculated exercise in both memory and method. Putting older black women on the agenda evokes their and others’ freedom and the intellectual contributions of black women who have, over the years, constituted the survival...
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Transgressive Women and Transracial Mothers: White Women and Critical Race Theory
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 130–153.
Published: 01 March 2001
...France Winddance Twine Copyright © 2001 by Wesleyan University Press 2001 ESSAY TransgressiveWomenand TransracialMothers White Women and Critical Race Theory FRANCE WINDDANCE TWINE Yougobeyondbeinga whitepersonand youbecomtehe_figuroef hatredas well.That'showIfeel.Youbecomtehe [black...
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Shameless Women: Repression and Resistance in We Sinful Women: Contemporary Urdu Feminist Poetry
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 28–51.
Published: 01 March 2003
...Neluka Silva Copyright © 2003 by Wesleyan University Press 2003 NELUKA SILVA Shameless Women RepressioanndResistancien We SinfulWomen:Contemporary UrduFeministPoetry Maulana Naqshbandi, one of Pakistan's religious leaders, accounted for Pakistan's defeat by India at the World Cup Cricket...
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The Tsunami's Windfall: Women and Aid Distribution
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 183–190.
Published: 01 September 2006
...",untouchablec"astew] omen'sissuesc, ouldyourmovemenot rganizeupper-class womenin supportofdalit women?Thenyouwouldsay, 'Yes,thisis women'sunity, this issisterhoodS.'ocouldyouorganizewomenwhowouldnormallynotbeeatingin a Muslimhouseholdto comeoutinsupport[ofMuslimwomen]t,o defendMuslimwomen against hestate...
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Reconfigurations of Caribbean History: Michelle Cliff's Rebel Women
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 43–60.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Jennifer Thorington Springer Abstract “Reconfigurations of Caribbean History: Michelle Cliff's Rebel Women” examines Cliff's re-visioning of Caribbean history in an effort to elucidate Caribbean women's active role in building Caribbean nations. In Abeng , Cliff reinvents what Honor Ford Smith...
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Introduction: Representin': Women, Hip-Hop, and Popular Music
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 September 2008
... discourse regarding the representation of women in contemporary popular music, and particularly in hip-hop. This issue's three organizing themes-"Hip-Hop (and) Feminism"; "Sight and Sound"; and "Rage against the Machine"-address the debates and intergenerational tensions regarding the liberatory potential...
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Meri Awaaz Suno : Women, Vocality, and Nation in Hindi Cinema
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 144–179.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Pavitra Sundar Abstract “ Meri Awaaz Suno : Women, Vocality, and Nation in Hindi Cinema” analyzes the theme sony of the Bollywood blockbuster Lagaan (2001) to understand how playback singers' voices become sites for the construction of national identity. Lata Mangeshkar monopolized female playback...
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Women, Pop Music, and Pornography
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 293–321.
Published: 01 September 2008
... pornographic imagery into the mainstream. Nowhere is this situation more evident than with women in popular music whose images have become increasingly hyper-sexualized. Through various narratives circling women in music, this essay explores how the 1996 Telecommunications Act has made pornographic images...
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Hotep and Hip-Hop: Can Black Muslim Women Be Down with Hip-Hop?
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 74–92.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Anaya McMurray Abstract “Black Muslim women and hip-hop? . . . real Muslims don't listen to hip-hop.” For many it is almost unfathomable that black Muslim women would have any involvement with hip-hop music. While several scholars have explored the connections between hip-hop and Islam, hip-hop...
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Chinese Women Protesting Domestic Violence: The Beijing Conference, International Donor Agencies, and the Making of a Chinese Women's NGO
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 66–99.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Lu Zhang Abstract The “Domestic Violence in China: Research, Intervention and Prevention” Project of China Law Society, the first women's NGO in China organized exclusively against the issue of domestic violence, was launched in Beijing in 2000. This article examines the construction of this non...
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Floating on Silent Waters: Religion, Nationalism, and Dislocated Women in Khamosh Pani
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 130–152.
Published: 01 March 2009
... that determine their choices. Moreover, foregrounding continuing conflicts between communal groups in South Asia, I draw attention to the ways in which nationality, sexuality, and religion influenced women's choices during the chaos of 1947.Further, I explore how the violence of Partition of British India...
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Legal Frankensteins and Monstrous Women: Judicial Narratives of the “Family in Crisis”
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 102–129.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Sharmila Lodhia Abstract Anti-violence activism for women in India has been riddled with a unique advocacy challenge. Women experiencing violence within the home confront a widespread backlash against Penal Code section 498A, the only criminal law in India that specifically encompasses domestic...
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Passing-as-if: Model-Minority Subjectivity and Women of Color Identification
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Shireen M. Roshanravan Abstract Ethnic Studies and Asian American feminist scholars have investigated how the model-minority racial discourse functions to prevent cross-racial coalition and to cast doubt on Asian American women in their claims to Women of Color political identity. However, none...
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“Why Must All Girls Want to be Flag Women?”: Postcolonial Sexualities, National Reception, and Caribbean Soca Performance
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 137–163.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Samantha Pinto Abstract “Why must all girls want to be flag women?” laments one critic regarding what he sees as the infiltration of “Carnival” culture into the performative desires of Indo-Trinidadian women. The intersections of soca, a form of music derived from the traditional Carnival genre...
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What is Reproductive Justice? How Women of Color Activists Are Redefining the Pro-Choice Paradigm
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 42–65.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Kimala Price Abstract Frustrated by the individualist approach of the “choice” paradigm used by the mainstream reproductive rights movement in the U.S., a growing coalition of women of color organizations and their allies have sought to redefine and broaden the scope of reproductive rights by using...
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Supporting Activist Women: Blanche Wiesen Cook and Feminist Biography
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 76–80.
Published: 01 March 2010
... herself as an activist, journalist, and historian-in that order (Cook 2009). An expansive feminist, her scholarship and activism encompass struggles for racial equality, economic justice, and world peace. Deeply influenced by the 1970s women's liberation movement, Blanche turned her full attention...
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“The Daughter of Fu Manchu”: The Pedagogy of Deconstructing the Representation of Asian Women in Film and Fiction
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 141–162.
Published: 01 March 2010
...” versus “them” mentality. I analyze the discourse of empire, a metaphor that has been used time after time to construct a mythical and menacing Other. In contrast, the portrait of Asian women in cinema and television news as traditional, veiled, and inhabiting a separate sphere adds to this representation...
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Does Anyone Care about Black Women?
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 153–155.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Brittney Cooper Copyright © 2014 by Smith College 2014 BRITTNEY COOPER Does AnyoneCareaboutBlack Women? One hundred fifty years after Harriet Tubman helped free 750 slaves during the Raid at Combahee Ferry, becoming the first woman in US history to successfully lead a military campaign, hip...
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