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The Feminist Mystique
... of the greatest leaders of Women's liberation, Susan B. Anthony. The women in charge of the gathering in Seneca Falls had prepared a "Declaration of ... spent a lot of their efforts. For most people, an active role in politics means independence and freedom ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Terrorist suspects held in Guantánamo Bay
... of the leader of the Cuban war of independence of 1895, the lawyer and poet Jose Martí. To others it is the tropical sugar-mill town of ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights
Women vs Women
... DECLARATION OF SENTIMENTS AND RESOLUTIONS, SENECA FALLS, NEW YORK, Women have had problems since the beginning of ... of the home. Living as a pioneer woman brought domination qualities of individual characters. As a result women learned to become independent ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Censorship and the banning of "The Chocolate War" by Cormier
... of opinion and experience. Only in a climate of open debate and willingness to listen to varied arguments can our children learn to think independently ... church group or senator should have the right to declare a book off limits for every child in a ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights
A report on womens rights in colonial America, using source documents.
... long to hear that you have declared an independency, and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it ... into the lowland, and backcountry factions, and a whole host of religious groups, attempting to practice without, or with Government intervention ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
This essay covers different aspects of censorship such as school sex censorship, book censorship and even library censorship. Includes references and standard MLA
... an independent United States government agency, directly responsible for reporting to Congress. The FCC was established by the Communications Act of ... of the First Amendment) the CDA was challenged and it was taken to the Supreme Court, where it was declared ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights
Law is a gendered institution and how legal judgements reflect the gendered nature of the institution.
... argues, 'the 'rightness' of objectivity, rationality, scientificity and independence obtains its force from the exclusion of a culturally ... attitudes make it more likely grounds of incapacity rather than declare her act of self-defence justified. Today ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Doing Freedom
... free ourselves. It's time to declare personal independence from the tottering and brutal relics of the age of coercive power, today's ... all the other great fantasies those under the spell of the ring of power imagine will make any difference. Forget power ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights
Domestic Violence: Theory, Effects & Interventions A literature review on the causes, and societal, psychological, and physical effects of domestic violence.
... and socialization of our children. In our society, males are taught and encouraged to be dominant, aggressive, independent and in ... of years. Up until the late 1800's, a man in this country had the right to chastise his wife until the practice was declared ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Jane Eyre and Charlotte Bronte changing the way women are viewed in the nineteenth century.
... a strong desire and struggles for independence in a society which does not encourage this. Because of the prejudices against women, ... everyone of her aunt's treatment, declaring that she is 'bad' and 'hard-hearted.' (Bronte 96) The possibility of a ruined ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies