Reading as a Form of Resistance
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A 5 page essay that references James Scott's essay "Behind the Official Story" and Azar Nafisi's "Selections from Reading Lolita in Tehran." The writer uses the Scott text to explain how Nafisi creates a hidden transcript for her students through literature, which helps keep her female students preserve their sense of self identity in the face of patriarchal religious oppression. No additional source cited. The bibliographical references for the two essays is incomplete.
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Religion and the Role of Women in the Middle East
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This 8 page paper discusses the complicated link between women and religion in the Middle East which has been a source of debate for centuries. The paper considers whether religion reinforces female oppression or provides opportunities for women - or a combination of both. The discussion includes the rights the Quran gives women, the way this is interpreted by different cultures, the historical role of women and the impact of other non religion social influences. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
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Religious Abuse of Women
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This 8 page paper considers how religion has made the world a predominately patriarchal society which has facilitated the abuse of women many forms. The paper considers physical abuse, mental abuse and abuse through the withholding of basic human rights. Religions discussed include Christianity, Judaism and Islam. The bibliography cites 20 sources.
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Resolving the Anomalies in the Lives of Muslim Women
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This 6 page paper examines the issues facing Muslim women, and argues that it is unlikely they will be accepted by their culture if they are too "Westernized." Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Review of Beyond the Veil by Fatima Mernissi
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5 pages in length. This important and eye-opening book sheds light on the way in which Muslim women must deal with their sexuality within the Islamic community. Not only must the women deal with this on a daily basis but those around them are expected to treat them as dictated by Islamic society. Discusses the author's viewpoint and her success in expressing her subject.
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Review of Freeman’s High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean
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A 5 page review of this book that is useful for business as well as for cultural anthropology. The women of Barbados have been instrumental in defining what constitutes the “ideal” worker for the multinational organization. Both the ease with which these women have assumed their new roles and the struggles they face to distinguish themselves from other types of workers contribute to the emergence of a new class, the “pink collar” labor force. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Role of Women in Ancient Society
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This 5 page paper looks at gender in Ancient society as depicted by Apuleius's The Golden Ass. The role of the female is discussed in terms of the society in reality as well as how it was depicted by the author. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Saliba, et al/Gender, Politics & Islam
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A 7 page book review that examines Gender, Politics and Islam (2002, Saliba, Allen and Howard, Eds.). This text offers a compilation of articles that were first published in Signs between 1997 and 2002, which pertain to women's experience within the boundaries of Islam and specific Arab and African cultures. The purpose of the text is to seek to counter the prevailing image of Islam, and particularly that of Islamic women, as "monolithic" (Saliba 1). Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Serving Class Of The Nineteenth Century England: Treatment Of Women
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14 pages in length. Chosen as the inferior gender by some unwritten code centuries ago to which society has adhered unchallenged, nineteenth century British serving class women found themselves under the control of societal dictates and prejudicial pecking order established solely by a patriarchal society. The psychoanalytic perspective of teaching women to depend upon everyone else but themselves speaks to the fact that they did not possess the necessary and intrinsic qualities to maintain their own singular existence. History has demonstrated that if it were not for the presence of the British man, the woman would hold no individual value; instead, she was to remain in association with male control in order to have any semblance of significance. Messages like these that permeated throughout the minds of young and impressionable British girls served to form their thoughts and perceptions for the future; with such lessons demonstrating how difficult life can be without appropriate patriarchal influence, young girls were spoon fed inaccurate and highly damaging information with regard to their own self worth and capabilities that remained in the forefront of their adult lives. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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Sexual Violence During Times of War: Crime Against Humanity or War Crime?
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A 10 page discussion of the nature of acts of sexual violence committed during times of war. Uses the examples recently unfolding in the Yugoslav region. Notes that the 2001 convictions of three Bosnian Serbs for their repeated rape and mistreatment of numerous civilian Muslim women they held captive is precedential in nature. It is the first incidence of an international court of justice addressing a crime of sexual violence as a crime against humanity. that in reality these crimes justify an even more rigid judicial process and retribution. It can be contended in fact, given the structural, cultural, and institutional mechanisms which have resulted in these crimes, that these crimes of sexual violence should be prosecuted under the title of war crimes. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Should Anthropologists Work to Eliminate the Practice of Female Circumcision
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5 pages. This paper argues that anthropologists should work to eliminate the practice of female circumcision. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Social Code for Women in Colonial Latin America
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A 3 page paper which discusses the social code for women in Colonial Latin America. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Spanish Women and Education
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This 15 page paper focuses on Spain, its treatment of women and how feminism has sparked new opportunities. How feminism is integrated in this traditional society is also discussed. Most of the paper however is about education, and how women have contributed to the field. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Sue Blundell: Women in Ancient Greece
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A paper which looks at Sue Blundell's "Women in Ancient Greece", an important text which draws on numerous contemporary sources in order to build up a comprehensive picture of the life of women of the period, despite the cultural filters of a strictly patriarchal system.
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Support for Women Entrepreneurs in the UAE
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This 12 page paper looks at the different organizations that provide help and support to female entrepreneurs in the United Arab Emirates, outlines the help that is provided and the way they operate. The paper looks at those which are set up specific to give women help and those that help all entrepreneurs. The paper then considers what help is needed in the future and the gap between current provision and current needs. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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Taiwanese Women: Quest For Emancipation
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14 pages in length. The struggle for female emancipation has been a long and arduous process; throughout history, women of virtually every ethnic background have been forced to comply with oppressive patriarchal demands, which have been responsible for maintaining the gender hierarchy that still exists in contemporary society. Historically, Taiwanese women have had to endure a longer stretch of such oppression, only just recently having had the fortitude to challenge cultural tenets. Annotated bibliography lists 11 sources.
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The African Diaspora and Its Women
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This 10 page report discusses the diaspora of native Africans who have left the continent of Africa for political, economic, or for the even more fundamental reason of simple survival. Throughout Europe, North and South America, and Asia, Africans from virtually all African nations have re-settled and reconstructed their lives. In general, they have retained their unique African identities but there are, of course, necessary changes made in order to become an accepted part of their new lives and environments. The report also addresses issues of particular concern regarding the women of the African diaspora. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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