Kingston's 'Warrior Woman' / Mother-Daughter Relationship
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A 5 page essay on the mother's expectations, legacy, and results of the daughter's efforts in Maxine Hong Kingston's autobiography. The writer posits that both the mother and daughter, though retaining separate ideologies, come together in the fact that the daughter becomes a warrior woman, a warrior created through the help of the mother. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Womwar.rtf

Knowledge Deficit: Three Perspectives On Racial, Gender And Ethnic Exclusion
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6 pages in length. Ghassan Hage's White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society, Naila Kabeer's "The Structure of Revealed Preference: Race, Community, and Female Labour Supply in the London Clothing Industry" and Harsha Walia's "Colonialism, Capitalism and the Making of the Apartheid System of Migration in Canada: Part II" all make the same point in three distinct ways: no matter where in the world or to what social, political, religious or economic component one is referring, there has long been and will likely always be an undercurrent of racial, gender and/or ethnic exclusion due to self-imposed supremacy. No additional sources cited.
Filename: TLCKnowlDef.rtf

Latin America / Women's Rights
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A 12 page paper that provides an overview of the current issues for women in Latin America. This paper considers the treatment of women and women's rights in Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
Filename: Latinwmn.wps

Latino Women
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A 6 page paper which examines the process that Latino women have gone through in the United States from a position involving culture and discrimination. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: RAlatwmn.rtf

Letter from Jasmine
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(5 pp). This "letter" has as its history the novel Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee (1989). Jasmine's daughter is now twenty and has asked her mother about her recent past here in the United States. "I never understood how you could leave Bud, and go off with Taylor. What did your leaving Bud have to do with being Indian? Female? Hindu? American? Can you explain it to me …"
Filename: BBjasmen.doc

Letter to Senator: Female Circumcision
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An 8 page letter to Senator Hillary Clinton, addressing the problem of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Africa and requesting that the Senator become involved in the campaign against it. Includes statistics on the percentage of girls undergoing FGM in African nations and the types of FGM they generally receive. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
Filename: KSfemCircLetr.rtf

Like Water for Chocolate / Movie and Book Comparison
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In 7 pages, the author compares the movie and book versions of Like Water for Chocolate or Como agua para chocolate by Laura Esquivel. It is a story that is too hot to handle: forbidden love, matriarchal dominance, the supernatural, and the special Mexican recipes that become more than enticing dishes. The protagonist is Tita, the youngest daughter in a family of three daughters who, because of a tradition imposed by her mother, is not allowed to marry the man she loves. When comparing the movie version and the novel, one will note that the movie version evokes images of mistreatment, disdain, and provocation, which are not in the book. A free Roman Numeral Sentence Outline is included. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: PClwfc.doc

Marjorie Shostak’s “Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman”
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This 6 page report discusses Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman by Marjorie Shostak (1981). The story of Nisa herself reveals a world that still exists but that most Westerners have only experienced through National Geographic documentaries. During nearly two years Shostak spent interviewing !Kung women in the Dobe area of northwestern Botswana, in the northern Kalahari Desert, she did make connections, especially with 50-year-old Nisa. Bibliography lists only the primary source.
Filename: BWnisa.rtf

Minority Women and Domestic Violence
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A 5 page paper which examines some of the problems specific to minority women in relation to domestic violence and the proposed solutions offered by two articles on the subject. No additional sources are used.
Filename: TGminvio.rtf