DO MUSLIM WOMEN NEED SAVING? Lia Abu-Lughod Book Review “Writing against culture” The book “Do Muslim Women Need Saving?” by the Lila Abu-Lughod, an academic who has lived many years observing women in the Middle East and the West has a meaning of the most basic conditions of the Muslim women’s lives which are set by political, and economical ethics. She also evaluates the beliefs of the international movement of speeches about ‘the demoralized Muslim women. Her motivation on examining how individual Muslim women experience freedom, rights and restrictions brings a much-needed perception. As an anthropologist who had lived for so long with women in communities where everyone was Muslim, she was forced to reflect on what she could do with the perspective her ethnographic work had given her.
Born for Liberty – Sara M Evans, 1997, USA Katherine Padgett History320B 1 The book Born for liberty refers to many of the roles women have played throughout American history - from their domestic and public roles. In the book we can identify all the dramatic changes women have been through in the last two decades – politics, labor force, and popular culture. It is inferred how the past have a major role and is really important in every woman’s life. It is written in the book
Declaration of Independence vs. Declaration of Sentiments As we read over two of the most important documents in the US history, we have the opportunity to compare and contrast the differences and similarities presented. When the Declaration of Independence was written, it paved the way for our freedom. However, even after America’s democratic ideas were determined and written down; freedom was still not granted to all citizens. This lead to women, such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, bringing about the Declaration of Sentiments.
Nasca Riverbend’s description of her life in Iraq before and after US’ invasion differs drastically from United States media representations of Arab woman and US government rhetoric regarding war on terror. Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq discusses the war in Iraq and daily life in the perspective from an Arab girl, “Riverbend.” Women throughout history of all races and ethnicities have dealt with hardships or oppressions at large; however, the United States has gained a false pretense as to the “oppressions” Arab women have faced before the war. By grouping all the countries in the Middle East together and thinking the problems and customs were identical, United States has gained false view of what women in Iraq are really going through.
There are plenty of examples in the poem that portrays the struggles of the time for women, not to mention her struggling nationality that has been fighting for equal rights for over a century. Lucille Clifton
Maya Angelou added to the Literary Canon Maya Angelou is an editor, performer, singer, filmmaker, dancer, educator, but one thing she does best is writing. Angelou, born April 4, 1928, has had many influences throughout her lifetime. She has been influenced by her hardships, writers, religion, and the African American community. Maya Angelou should be included in the literary canon because she is best known for her autobiographies, which involved her childhood and her early life experiences. Her autobiographies influenced many African Americans and specifically women.
Muslims, the First Feminists In her 1994 book, Price of Honor, Jan Goodwin wrote a chapter titled, ‘Muslims, the First Feminist”, where she discusses the history of the Muslim religion and what it is actually like today. She then goes on to describe the shame a daughter can do to the parents and their relationship and the life that child will go on to live, if she does live. Goodwin concludes by pointing out that feminism in the Islamic world has a long history. The history of the Muslim religion was unknown to me and I think most non-Muslim people can say the same. It begins with Mohammad’s first wife, Khaclija.
Let Women Vote by Marlene Targ Brill This book is young adult literature is written down to the readers so the understanding of civil right can be more clearly, the book tell some stories of how the women right had been an impact in America society better said the fight for the nineteen amendment. The main focus of this book is to understand the story in how society discriminate women during several eras. The narrator explain the time frame in a different matter, he begin with the story of Carrie Chapman in what she did to fight for the women rights and what she saw, followed the chapters with more important personalities involved in this suffrage. Each chapter covers a different period, but they all share the same organization of describing the social, cultural, political, philosophical and scholarly aspects of the period in respective subsections. This made it easier to later refer to previous chapters and compare different periods in order to learn the comprehensive history of Woman suffrage Amendment into the United States Constitution.
Equal rights for women Running head: EQUAL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN Equal Rights for Women Cheryl Neale Grand Canyon University Equal Rights for Women When you think of equal rights for women I think of who started it all, Mary Wollstonecraft the first feminist or as they call her mother of feminism. It goes back to 1792, her first book Vindication of the Rights of Woman. She bought up some good points that woman did not have the same rights as man did, We was subject to what ever they said for us to do. She spoke out on family, religion, education as well as politics. I am going to touch on abuse since that is close to home.
Since then, there have been many changes throughout America. Susan B. Anthony addressed women’s rights in New York (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia). “In 1863 she was a co-organizer along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton of the Women's Loyal League to support Lincoln's government, especially his emancipation policy. After the Civil War she opposed granting suffrage to freedmen without also giving it to women, and many woman-suffrage sympathizers broke with her on this issue” (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia). She was president of the National Woman Suffrage Association (1869–90) and of the National