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    the Sexes: Inequality of Women During the Enlightenment The Enlightenment was a period when clusters of philosophers‚ writers‚ scholars‚ and aristocrats sharply debated standards and assumptions about women’s rights in society. Issues that pertained to widening the women’s sphere into more than just the household‚ questioning the ability of women to logic as men‚ and debating egalitarian co-educational opportunities for both boys and girls. This was a time when women started to come forth as

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    UIE Studies 5 • 1995 Women‚ Education and Empowerment: Pathways towards Autonomy edited by Carolyn Medel-Anonuevo Report of the International Seminar held at UIE‚ Hamburg‚ 27 January - 2 February 1993 With contributions from: Namtip Aksornkool • Anita Digheu Jenny Horsmann • Lucita Lazo • Carolyn Medel-Anonuevo and Bettina Bochynek • Nelly P. Stromquist • Miryan Zuñiga The UNESCO Institute for Education‚ Hamburg‚ is a legally independent entity. While the programmes of the Institute

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    Struggle of Women in India

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    The  Struggle  of  Women  in   India   By:  Michelle  Brown     Copper  Hills  High  School               The Struggling Women in India   Introduction All over the world women have a numerous amount of freedom. We have worked 1 for it hard and have succeeded. There is a country in this world that the women don’t have as much freedom as we do. That place is India. For centuries women in India have been struggling for

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    Japanese Comfort Women

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    Japanese Comfort Women It is estimated that between one and two hundred thousand female sex slaves were forced to deliver sexual services to Japanese soldiers‚ both before and during World War II. These women were known as comfort women and the Imperial Conference‚ which was composed of the emperor‚ representatives from the armed forces and the main Cabinet ministers‚ approved their use by Japanese soldiers. (Walkom) The term "comfort women" refers to the victims of a "premeditated systematic plan

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    Little Women Critique

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    Louisa May Alcott’s novel Little Women OR Meg‚ Jo‚ Beth and Amy (1868)‚ was a two-part book that told the story of four sisters and their family during the Civil War. The novel was geared towards young girls and the author drew from her own experiences to develop her characters and her plot. Madeleine B. Stern (1912-2007)‚ author of Louisa May Alcott: A Biography‚ wrote that among the musings made by Ms. Alcott‚ while deciding what to write in her book‚ was one that “There was no trick in writing

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    Japan's Comfort Women

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    This paper is a review of the book Japan’s Comfort Women-Sexual slavery and prostitution during WWII and the US occupation by Yuki Tanaka. This book was published in 2002 by Routledge. The book deals with the thousands of Japanese‚ Korean‚ Chinese and other Asian and European women who were victims of organized sexual violence and prostitution by means of "comfort stations" setup by the Japanese military during World War II. As we first get into the book‚ we find out that the origins of comfort

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    Women Empowerment

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    Policy for Empowerment of Women 2001 aimed at bringing about advancement‚ development and empowerment of women in all spheres of life. However‚ a close examination of social and economic status of women‚ especially in the rural areas shows unsatisfactory achievements in most human development indicators. Citing published facts and figures‚ evaluate the reasons for the failure of the government of India in areas such as growing feminization of poverty; exploitation of women in low paid‚ hazardous and

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    Women in the 19th Century

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    nineteenth and early twentieth centuries hosted uproar among the women of America who sought equal representation and rights from the U.S. government. Among the female activists‚ authors‚ such as Willa Cather and Louisa May Alcott‚ began to commence about women’s suffrage through their writing. A multitude of other women‚ such as Anne Sullivan‚ began to feel empowered to become independent and strong females‚ just as able and equal as men. Women faced an immense amount of difficulty during this time period

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    Analysis of Little Women

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    LITTL E WOMEN Chapter 1: "Playing Pilgrims" Summary The March family consists of Marmee and her four girls‚ Meg‚ Jo‚ Beth and Amy and Father who is off working as a chaplain in the Civil War. We meet the girls first in Chapter 1 as they sit around the living room bemoaning the fact that they will not be having Christmas presents this year. They each have one dollar which seems too little to help any social cause. The girls discuss what they are going to buy for themselves with their money.

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    Women play a huge role in society. Even through these roles have changed over time‚ history is full of strong women. Lady Macbeth can be described as one of these strong women‚ who in fact played a very different role to other women of her time. She was determined‚ obsessed and ambitious. Lady Macbeth had qualities contradictory to the norms of women in the Elizabeth Era. She was dominant‚ manipulative and had total equality. Qualities that were completely opposite to women of her time. Women of

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