Arabian Women / Overcoming Traditional Barriers
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A 5 page discussion of how women in the Middle East are finally beginning to transcend cultural restrictions and acquire rights that they never had before. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Arabwoma.wps

Ireland & Israel / Women's Peace Movement
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A 20 page research paper that explores how and why the women in Ireland and Israel combine to resolve ethnic conflict through peacemaking activities. The writer focuses on the effects of civil war on the women's experience in those countries, and argues that it is 'war at the door' that has spurred these women to quickly change their lives around and generated the lessons that can be learned by world political leaders in resolving civil wars. Bibliography lists 26 sources.
Filename: Wmnpeace.rtf

Violence against Women/Views from 3 novels
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A 5 page research paper and analysis of how three books demonstrate the use of power overall in society by focusing first on the subjugation of women. . These representative novels are 'A Passage to India,' by E.M. Forster (1920s India); 'Woman at Point Zero' by Nawal El Saadawi (1970s Egypt): 'Breath, Eyes, Memory,' by Edwidge Danticat (1980s Haiti and New York). No additional sources cited.
Filename: 99view3n.wps