Kenya's Constitutional Angst
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A 3 page paper discussing the 2005 failure of a draft constitution to pass in a national referendum. The draft constitution addressed several issues including women's roles in the government and economy, but many activists for women's rights claimed that the draft was not specific enough and contained the potential for extensive abuse. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: KSafrKenyaPol.rtf

King’s Premise of Non-Violence: Applications to the Women’s Movement
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A 4 page exploration of Dr. Martin Luther King’s premise of non-violence. This paper observes the impact of this premise on the women’s movement. Biblography lists 4 sources.
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Lack of Progress in Women’s Issues During the 1920s and 1930s
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A 4 page paper which examines how women’s issues failed to make progress during this time period. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: TGfemiss.rtf

LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN’S RIGHTS
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This 3 page paper discusses the human rights violations toward women in the early 1900's in Brazil. Sueann's book, In Defense of Honor, is used to provide examples of the abuses. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: MBlwmn.rtf

Latino Women
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A 6 page paper which examines the process that Latino women have gone through in the United States from a position involving culture and discrimination. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: RAlatwmn.rtf

Legal Issues and the Woman's Movement
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This 9 page paper discusses the way in which the Women's Movement has been instrumental in getting legislation passed to ensure equal opportunity for women. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: HVLegWom.rtf

Lerner/Grimke Sisters
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A 5 page book review that addresses Gerda Lerner's The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina, Pioneers for Women's Rights and Abolition, which argues persuasively that these women were pioneers both in the abolitionist cause and in regards to the women's movement. The writer summarizes the book and Lerner's scholarship. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khlerner.rtf

Leslie Marmon Silko's "Ceremony": Feminist Approach
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5 pages in length. Leslie Marmon Silko's "Ceremony" addresses a long-standing issue that has existed between Native American men and women: the open and equal pursuit of identity. That patriarchy has been the controlling social force for centuries has effectively placed the female gender in the shadows of acceptance, while the male gender has successfully progressed in all possible areas: politics, education and economics. For women, these areas have long histories of restraint through design of the woman’s role; the effects of such designs have been so well entrenched that they have automatically applied to virtually every other area of public life. No additional sources cited.
Filename: TLCsilko.wps

Liberal, Socialist, and Radical Feminist Traditions
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A 5 page examination of the differences between liberal, socialist, and radical feminist traditions. The paper defines the different traditions and examines which traditions is perhaps most useful to contemporary feminism. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: RAfemtrd.rtf

Lorraine Code's 'What Can She Know?: Feminist Theory And The Construction Of Knowledge'
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8 pages in length. Lorraine Code's 'What Can She Know?' is a celebration of gender, with particular emphasis upon issues of feminism and patriarchal control. Indeed, Code portrays the perpetuation of feminism; not only are her writings a solid reflection of her sentiments of a lacking Anglo-American epistemology but so is the manner in which she reflects the female reawakening. Code displays her craft well and does not hesitate to apply her talent as more of a social statement than one of mere entertainment. Thus is the case with her ongoing assertion that there was truly no separation of the sexes in reality, short of the obvious physical differences; rather, her perpetual argument clearly makes the point that the female gender -- no matter how seemingly fragile and delicate -- is indeed just as much an emotionally strong and self-reliant individual as her socially-accepted male counterpart. The writer discusses Code's book as it relates to feminism and patriarchy. No additional sources cited.
Filename: TLCcode.wps

Lucretia Mott
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5 pages in length. The quest for antislavery and women's rights was as much a part of Lucretia Mott's very being as was the need to breathe air. The extent to which these two issues served to define Mott's entire existence is both grand and far-reaching; that this Quaker is part of history's most revolutionary female figures when it comes to the perpetual pursuit for human rights speaks to the very nature of a humane and compassionate woman. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: TLCMott.rtf

Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)
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(5 pp) America's first true feminist, Margaret Fuller holds a distinctive place in the cultural life of the American Renaissance. Transcendentalist , literary critic, editor, journalist, teacher, and political activist, ultimately turned revolutionary, she numbered among her close friends the intellectual prime movers of the day: Emerson, Thoreau, the Peabody sisters, the Alcotts, Horace Greeley, Carlyle, and Mazzini--all of whom regarded her with admiration and sometimes even awe. This discussion focuses on Fuller and her work. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: BBmfullr.doc