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    There are many political, religious, and cultural factors that shape the lives of Islamic women many of them are completely different than factors in the lives of American women. Islam is one of the world’s fastest growing religions; however, Brooks argues that “Islam’s holiest texts have been misused to justify the repression of women, and how male pride and power have warped the original message of this once liberating faith.” The book also shows these factors have slowly been taking away women’s

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    history and culture, still, both of them aimed for women’s best interests. Muslim women were profoundly feeling aggrieved by the discrimination they have against them. They stereotypical reputation about them in the West, and their presentation in the Western media didn’t help either. They started and supported a new fight to regain themselves the equal status they were granted by Islam centuries ago. Muslim women didn’t like to be looked at as being backward and oppressed by men in a male-dominant

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    Globalism is the movement and exchange of goods, services and ideas between different parts of the world. It is a term used to describe the process going on in the world in which people from all over the world are unified into a single society and function together. This term is often used to refer to economic globalization: the integration of national economies into the international economy through trade, foreign direct investment, capital flows, migration, and the spread of technology. Globalism

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    The Women Behind The Veil

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    The Women behind the Veil In a patriarchal society were the father or the man of the household decides for the family, women are quite often forced into prescribed gender roles. This is true for the women in Iran’s contemporary culture. For this purpose, the veil, which is worn by Iran women, is often identified as a symbol of obedience, respect or modesty which is otherwise an example of an oppressed patriarchal society. Author Marjane Satrapi’s novel Persepolis, exposes the regime behind this

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    Essay on Asian Women in the Eyes of Americans

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    Introduction The history of Asian women has many facets. I am about to touch on two key monumental points over a sixty year span that have shaped the views of Asian women in the eyes of Americans. As a brief overview, from as early as the 1940s, Asian women were recruited to serve their soldiers during World War II as sex slaves. Forty years later, the dawning of the 1980s brought about the desire of Asian women into American households and sparked the mail order bride phenomenon.

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    Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) community has made more pointed efforts to recruit women. While the process of aggressively seeking out women is taking place, the perception of what it means to be an engineer remains skewed. Since the perception has changed about engineering, societal views are pushed towards a generic understanding of what it means to be an engineer. Problems in recruiting women engineers can exemplify the differences in society we don’t often discuss such as merit and

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    Biography Intro. Thesis: Louisa May Alcott’s beginnings and family life were unpromising, but they influenced much of her writing and helped her become very successful later on in her life. Early years Influences Later years Works Summary Little Women Author Analysis Intro. Thesis: Louisa May Alcott’s stories describe the child’s path to virtue, have the similar moral of simplicity as the best path, and are drawn from Alcott’s childhood. Learning to become virtuous Stories drawn from childhood

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    A FEMINIST STUDY OF LOUSIA MAY ALCOTT’S LITTLE WOMEN CONTENTS Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Little Women and the Feminist Imagination 3 Chapter 2 Jo March: A Woman Ahead of her Times 10 Conclusion 17 Bibliography 19 Introduction "If the first woman God ever made was strong

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    Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others Author(s): Lila Abu-Lughod Reviewed work(s): Source: American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 104, No. 3 (Sep., 2002), pp. 783-790 Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the American Anthropological Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3567256 . Accessed: 18/01/2012 15:55 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at

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    of the argan oil infused with an ultra-flex brush. Target Market-- Customer profile: Since this ad was found in Cosmopolitan, the largest group of people who read this magazine are from ages 18-34, targeting a large group of women. Cosmopolitan targets various types of women who are both career oriented or family oriented, divorced, single or married, with and without children, college graduated or not. Cosmopolitan is sold all across

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