And, with change comes enlightenment, revolutionary principals and an independent livelihood. ... " Therefore I join you in asking all rational men to recognize the importance of women's education, to understand that, to educate is to progress and to progress is to succeed. ...
The importance of education of women, to develop reason, is so important and crucial for life experiences. ... "One of the most absurd notions taken over from the eighteenth century enlightenment is that in the beginning of society woman was the slave of man the overthrow of the mother right was the world historical defeat of the female sex. ...
Defining gender violence as a violation of human rights is a relatively new approach to the problem. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the global feminist social movement worked to introduce this idea to the human rights community and by the early years of the 21st century, succeeded in establishing the right to protection from gender violence as a core dimension of women's human rights. This is another example of the process described in Chapter 2, in which a social movement defines a problem and generates support from legal institutions and states. After describing how gender viol...
Albert Memmi, The Two Answers of the Colonized Memmi writes that colonizers are creatures of want while all who are colonized need change. The fact that the colonizers do not see this is due either to a lack of understanding of colonization or their own selfishness. If the colonizer is acting as th...
