The People’s Republic of China is a totalitarian state. The Communist Party is the only political entity allowed to exist within its borders. Because of this fact, much of the information on women’s rights can be classified as secret. Many statistics on kidnapping and trafficking of girls and women, induced abortions, sterilizations, infanticides and other ...
In order to begin this investigation, it is first helpful to consider the underlying tenets of feminism and the specific ideologies that feminists use to understand and conceptualize the world. Critically reviewing what has been written about the definition of feminism, it becomes evident that different scholars looking at this issue have noted significantly different ...
The time is around 1800. Women wanted the right to vote and the right to have possession of things that they thought to be theirs. Jump ahead 150 years. The 19th Amendment did precisely that, imposing a changed view on women’s rights and the women’s movement. Women since then have fought from sexual issues such ...
Over the centuries, there have been several women who have made monumental contributions to the rights we enjoy today as citizens of the United States. From Louisa May Alcott’s progressive writing, to Lucy Stone’s decision to keep her own name to Susan B. Anthony’s fight for women’s suffrage there have been hundred’s of women that ...
Significant differences in historical development led to the modern status of women in the three nations of Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.The Maghreb cultures form patrilineal kin-based societies, with state formation and the tribal system intricately linked. The different power relationships between tribes and the political state thus greatly influenced the development of modern family law. ...
