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love that was considered scandalous at the time.1 Woodhull boldly declared in a lecture she delivered in 1871, "I have an inalien...

to confront the first Caliph of the Islamic nation. The Shiites, in contrast, felt like this position was destined to be filled w...

romances, and their association with violence discloses the cultural anxieties about nation-making. Samuels reads the figure of wo...

women: "During the early 20th century the term new woman came to be used in the popular press. More young women than ever were goi...

She further notes, for example, how "The sensualist, indeed, has been the most dangerous of tyrants, and women have been duped by ...

hard time. What was going through your mind at this time, Rosa? A: Well, I know that most of us girls used to make up little ditti...

insert citation from Chapter 12). While Walden is even today held up as the epitome of how any individual can maintain and retain ...

Ruiz would have been fully capable of portraying the various moods of Mexican-American and Asian-American culture in the facilitat...

fact, Caulfield goes into an extensive and exhaustive couple of chapters on the constant parade of litigations against men who had...

to continue to overpopulate a world whose ecology is already in serious danger. Feminist also vary on the issues of technological...

1992). Women are those primarily affected by the private sphere support group, however in order to be eligible for support, certai...

speaks of the position of women in society, elements of a womans life that can often lead to a position where she is seen as littl...

the risk involved in the abortion is in and of itself a reason to suggest that it should be put off. Women use abortion-because it...

cooks, laundresses and saboteurs" Women In Military Service For America Memorial Foundation, Inc., 2007). They clearly had no righ...

gender equality has come to reflect equity of human rights, as well. This Western ideology, however, has not infiltrated those gl...

before, however, Islam is very much an "exposed" religion. It comes to us through practically every medium as each news or public...

not as if womens suffrage would come about immediately and without any history. During the Renaissance, both men and women planted...

be accomplished through a land commission; * Establish courts that operate on Christian and other non-Muslim religious principles ...

to vote, or take part in the political process. To place this in a large context we have t remember the rights of women are genera...

did extraordinary things, and were promptly forgotten or left out of the history books. Without Hamers help, hundreds of black vot...

mothers, others were determined that women would now enter the workforce. This struggle continued for at least a decade, subtly ma...

Satanic Verses spoke against Islam and because Rushdie was raised Muslim, he became one of the most visible and obvious choices fo...

(Woolf, 2002). Written for a largely female readership over a hundred years after Wollstonecraft, Woolf can afford to be more cri...

single women over the age of twenty-one and widows had the power to make contracts and hold property in her own name (22). A marri...

discussed, or not discussed during the time period, abortions were available to those who knew where to look. But, it was a danger...

no better illustrated than through a discussion of the particulars of our democracy itself, the particulars of who is allowed the ...

In response to this exclusion, the first ever convention was held to discuss womens rights, and this took place in Seneca Falls, N...

in society. Admittedly, each of these women lived during a time in which, as Elizabeth Cady Stanton so aptly observed, men sought...

efforts were not in vain, inasmuch as they "helped awaken others that followed her and forced them to mount offensives against the...

own children. For example, if a woman were abused by her husband, the Catholic church wouldnt help her (since they held that women...