Also according to Maliki laws, divorce was the right of the husband, and the wife would only be allowed to divorce the husband only under very extreme circumstances (Charrad 1990). ... In most cases, women would receive only half of what a man would inherit in the same situation and distant male relatives from the man's were actually favored over the wife (Charrad 1990). ... These propagandas would even claim that "women could only achieve equality by fighting for a country freed from colonial domination" (Vince 2010: 446). ... The constitution acknowledged that the war for in...

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Discrimination on women in many countries appear at the time colonialism come. Before the colonialization -countries that have indigenous tribes like Indonesia and America- women have an important role in tribal life. ... Properties belonged to women and when a man married, he must stays in his wife's house. ... Or it changed clothes to be labor exploitation as we can see in developing countries. ...

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A little girl who lives a lonely life with her mother, divorced, an intellectual know-it-all psychologist, goes to the country to spend a weekend with her father and his new wife, who is wholesome, happy, and a good cook and gardener. ... But, pitying her poor mother typing away all by herself in the lonesome apartment, she keeps her guilty secret that from now on she will be living for the moments when she can escape to that dream home in the country where they know "what life is all about." ... The problem of abortion has existed for the entire history of this country (and beyond), bu...

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Their efforts were however stifled twenty years later in the same country where they were once supported. ... For example, the Bissell vacuum commercial portraying the stay at home dad who loves his carpet cleaner for cleaning up stains, while vacuuming has been traditionally viewed as the chore done by the wife. ...

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There were hundreds of programs across the country in minor sports that men participated in that have been dropped in order to free up money for womens' scholarships. ... Now a job, beyond being a wife and mother, is well within reach. ...

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"In a world that told them how to think, she showed them how to live." Mona Lisa Smile In the movie Mona Lisa Smile, directed by Mike Newell in 2003, three eligible women have choices and what they chose grounds them to the roles they play in society and what inevitable leads them to feminis...

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Communication and Popular Culture BUST magazine is meant to be an alternative outlet for women who are sick of the images given to them in the more established and conventional women's magazines. BUST offers quite a different set of values than most young women's magazines. BUST values the wom...

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