Leymah's Talk Analysis

She includes illustrations and photos depicting various political cartoons, petitions, artifacts, and engravings between pages 80 and 81. In her preface she first introduces the limitation of having white, middle-class women reformers. Chapter one, The Roots of Reform, introduces us to how women, empowered by the church first start exploring various charitable forms of outreach, the effect of the Second Great Awakening, and the first leading women; such as Juliana Tappen and Maria Weston Chapman. Chapter two, Charity and the Relations of Class, explores the middle -and upper-class women's need to perform charity. (Again tying in religion) The poor merely existing as a way for the wealthy to earn their way into heaven. We see the invention of the poor house, and how to define who was the "worthy poor." We see the invention of the Asylum as well as early talks of abolitionism. Chapter three, "Drinks, Sex, Crime, and Insanity", introduces the first major movement of the antebellum era, temperance, and the role alcohol played in the antebellum life. We see the emergence of Susan B. Anthony. This is the chapter where we begin to see more radical action from women, and some earlier reformers step away because they are scared of how far the movements are going. These movements are beginning to keep the women out of the kitchen just a little too long. Women begin to have more say, and do more than just simply make speeches and hand out pamphlets. Chapter four, Antislavery, is where we see the biggest divides in the reform movement. Women were divided on issues such as colonization, ending slavery, or should they even be involved at all. Many women wanted to be abolitionists, but did not want to associate with black people. Chapter five: Women's Rights, explores the earliest movements in the women's right cause. We see the effects of the Seneca

The role of women in society has grown and changed tremendously with the development of the world. Within the American culture, women’s rights have expanded to the extent of being able to vote for who runs our country or even possibly being the person that does run our country. Although the American culture has somewhat promoted the growth of a woman’s role in society, does not mean women receive the same respect in other cultures around world. For example, in Africa women are viewed lower on the totem pole of importance even though without them the village would fall apart. Chinua Achebe is an author that was born and raised in a village of Nigeria. From growing up there, Achebe understands the culture of Africa better than

I learned how Ida B. Wells-Barnett started her life. Born as a slave, orphaned at 16, she became a teacher to support her surviving brothers and sisters. With the difficult circumstances brought upon her, it took an amazing amount of determination for her to fight for black civil rights and women’s rights in the 19th century. In a more civilized age, it’s harder to witness the courage she represented for the disadvantaged.

Taking a gender woman study class gave me the opportunity to discover how woman do not only fight for their rights but for everyones right as well. In Mary Pardo’s Mexican American Women and Grassroots Community Activists: Mothers of East Los Angeles, I was able to learn how woman fight for their communities rights and try their hardest to protect everyone and not just themselves. Michelle Jacob’s article Claiming Health and Culture as a Human Rights: Yakama Feminism in Daily Practice also shows how woman become agents of change to bring change into the community. As I kept reading various articles, I also discovered Lila Abu-Lughod. “The Romance of Resistance: Tracing Transformations of Power Through Bedouin Women.” which focused on working towards woman rights. The last article I will talk

After declaring their independence from the Spanish Empire and (later) the Mexican Empire, the United Provinces of Central America experienced problems in their government. For years, the Assembly had been dissolved three different times and four Presidents were exiled. Despite the chaos, many Central Americans wanted to remain united; however, it wasn't enough to keep people at bay. The civil war began during the Mexican-American War in 1846. [b][SUBJECTED TO CHANGES][/b] The United States of America saw Central America as an opportunity to invade from the south, causing the Mexican army to move back... [b][SUBJECTED TO CHANGES][/b] Once the civil war ended, the United Provinces began repairing the damages with help from the Americans.

“Liberian Civil war fought in 1989-1996, is among the most deadly and destructive war in the history that lasted for more than 7 years and killed almost 3 hundred thousand people. This war was the worst ever in the history of Africa because it caused the infrastructural and property damage in the country. The war also displaced more than 1 million people in refugee camps in neighboring countries. This war led to a complete breakdown of law and order in the country. There was not any direct cause that led to this war but several reasons contributed in the creation of this destructive event. Hunger for power, greed and opportunities to control and to get more out of Liberia’s natural resources were the main reasons behind this conflict. As D. Elwood Dunn quoted “We begin with the assumption that the conflict arose from the tugs and pulls of different identities the differential distribution of

Across cultures and throughout history, women have experienced ongoing systemic oppression; and they have responded with progressive movements of protest and creative alternatives. Harriet Tubman in the fight against slavery: Fannie Lou Hamer for voting rights: Ella Baker and Mary White Ovington in the civil rights movement: Rosa Luxemburg in the German socialist movement: Winnie Mandela in the anti-apartheid movement: Puerto Rican independence leader and poet Lolita Lebron: and American Indian movement activists Anna Mae Aquash, Ingrid Washinawatok, and Winona LaDuke (Mink and Navarro). Women have pioneered in movements for labor rights, prison reform, reproductive rights and health, education, affordable housing, affirmative action and equal rights, human rights, and environmental safety. These women’s leadership styles span a range from soft to harsh, from wielding individual, hierarchical power to possessing a commitment to collectivism, and from identifying as “woman as caretaker of life” to woman as requiring and utilizing equal power to man. There is no one characteristic that applies to all women as social change leaders (Hurtado).

In the book Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence, Carol Berkin examines the revolutionary war putting more focus on the diverse role of women from all cultures, ethnicity, and classes in the battle for independence which lasted for about 8 years. The war did not acknowledge the gap between home front and battlefield (Berkin, 2005). The author of this book examines this war based on the views of women who were willingly or unwillingly caught at the hub of a violent conflict. This essay examines how women exercise their limited political power to assist their preferred political side through the course of the revolutionary efforts.

Sojourner Truth is prominent for being an abolitionist, an evangelist, and a feminist. Born into slavery, Sojourner Truth was a victim of ill-treatment and underrepresentation of the slave whose rights were ignored. Her extemporaneous speeches and stand against slavery favored not only abolition but also gave women and the minority groups voices in the New World. Truth’s contributions, therefore, have continued to motivate women to fight for their rights and leadership positions against patriarchy in the contemporary world.

Without significant, strong people in the world, the earth would be no longer here. People would not survive and the world would be in chaos. Because of this, the people who do good for the world are treasured and kept close. In the biography Harriet Tubman: Guide to Freedom by Ann Petry and the autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, two extraordinary women are revealed in the text. While Harriet is a former slave with little experience in the real world but with a heart filled with bravery, Mrs. Flowers is petite and full of willpower to strive to success.

One of her first tasks was to organize a group of protestors. This was a troublesome assignment because many women were too fearful to participate, and the men did not want women to gain more power. Many girls were hesitant to join because they had heard stories of women who were badly beaten and verbally assaulted for joining the movement (“National Woman’s Party”). In fact, “Some women were arrested under false charges,” (“National Woman’s Party”). Despite these truths, Alice Paul was still able to secure women protestors. Together they formed an organization called the Silent Sentinels (Mendoza). This group of women protested the White House and held hunger strikes (Mendoza). On these hunger strikes women refused to eat until their demands were met. In most cases, the government dealt with the hunger strikes by force-feeding them (Zahniser, J.D.). Yet, more and more women began to join Alice Paul’s group. Through all of the challenges Alice Paul faced, she proved that she was a strong person willing to fight for what was right. Even after gaining supporters, she continued to expand her

These courageous Liberian women – mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters - organized a protest at the fish market in Monrovia every day to dance and pray. During the rain or heat, these women armed only with a white T-shirt gathered at the market to demand a meeting with President Taylor to talk about a resolution to the country’s political struggle. They stood up to President Taylor for months by creating signs calling for peace and handed out fliers asking the NPFL’s government to stop killing their children. The women gathered at the side of the road that President Taylor traveled to his executive mansion twice a day. This moment was significant for the women’s peace movement who took brave stance in the name of peace. President Taylor invited

Women have been the most discriminated-against group of people in the entire history of humankind. They have been abused, held back in society, and oftentimes restricted to the home life, leading dull, meaningless lives while men make sure the world goes round. It seems strange that half of the world's population could be held down so long; ever since the dawn of humanity, women have been treated like second-class citizens. Only in the past 100 years or so have women started to win an equal place in society in the Western world. However, the fight for equality has not been a short one. The seeds of the liberation movement were planted hundreds of years ago, by free-thinking

During 1989-1996 Liberia experienced one of the deadliest civil wars in history, the first phase occurred during Samuel Doe regime. Liberia began with great hope and support from most Liberians. However, the government quickly turned into an oppressive military regime that destroyed the fragile economy. Doe explicitly favored his own Krahn tribe from Grand Gedeh County, as well as the Mandingo, he resisted almost all other ethnic groups, but particularly the Gio and Mano from Nimba County, eventually leading to violent clashes between the military and ethnic groups in this region. Besides, the violence he created between the military and ethnic groups he a staged a coup d'état to over through the government. President Tolbert and 26 of

It could be noted that the transformation of gender roles within the Kurdish community, has transformed the appearance of the eastern women as no longer the oppressed victim, in which today the Kurdish female fighters are “presented as a novel phenomenon.” Conversely, the Kurdish women’s freedom movement has been appealing in the field of war since the 19th century, in which the world has largely ignored. The intensification of the Kurdish female fighters in the movement can be understood as a reaction against the western world, as it believes that “imperialist states use this as a justification to launch war on our community.” This suggests that the western intervention in the Middle East is vastly rejected as it operates as a body purely based on self-interest. The resistance against the Islamic State is not the only example where women were “warrior leaders in Kurdish history.” For instance, during the Ottoman Empire Kara Fatma had killed over 700 Turkish men, also in 1974 Leyla Qasim was identified as the first Kurdish female to be executed by the Iraqi Ba’ath party. Today, in southern Kurdistan, the only recognized Kurdish region by such state actors have hundreds of female pershermge, since the upsurge of Saddam Hussein’s regime. In actual fact, many women all across Kurdistan went up to the mountains to join the guerilla units to create