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In the United States, the women's rights movement began with women demanding suffrage, or the right to vote, in the late nineteenth century. Over the next hundred years, this fight for equal rights would evolve and shift. Readers will trace the history of the women's rights movement through project-based learning. Students can model their own projects on those provided, including drawing maps, writing letters to important historical figures, and more. Vibrant photographs and enlightening sidebars enhance the background information and projects provided.

Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women's Literature -- Preface -- Note -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: The Ethical Turn in African Literature -- African Feminism: Old Wine in a New Wine Bottle? -- African Feminism: A Short Historical Sketch -- The Weaknesses of African Feminist Theory -- Female Subjectivity and African Feminist Discourse -- Empathy: Making Sense of a Concept -- Human Rights and Literature -- Narratives, Privilege, and the Pain of Other People -- African Women's Narratives and Feminist Empathy -- Notes -- 2 Feminism as Fairness -- We Should All Be Feminists -- John Rawls and the Original Position -- Why Does Society Hate My Body? -- Narrating Justice and Fairness -- Guilt and the Search for Justice -- Agent-Regret as Necessary for Fairness -- Imagining Human Rights -- Notes -- 3 Diary of Intense Pain: The Postcolonial Trap and Women's Rights -- The Limits of Postcolonial Criticism -- Pain and the Challenge of Being an African Woman in the Twenty-first Century -- Of Pain and the Demand for Empathy -- Pain, Solidarity, and Search for Community -- Mugabe Syndrome and the Challenges of Postcoloniality -- Notes -- 4 The Body in Pain and the Politics of Culture -- The Politics of Female Circumcision -- I Tell of the Body in Pain -- Bodily Pain as a Trope for Existential Pain -- Narrative, Empathy, and Community -- Notes -- 5 Abstractions as Disablers of Women's Rights -- Lola Shoneyin: Polygamy as a Disabling Institution -- Raising Questions, Raising Awareness -- Nationalism and Human Rights -- When Right Means Life -- Notes -- 6 The Enslaved Body as a Symbol of Universal Human Rights Abuse -- Slavery as a Metaphor of Abuse of Human Rights -- Dreams as an Expression of Human Rights -- Women in Search of Lost Dignity -- Historical Consciousness and Human Rights

Female friendships and visionary women / Jennifer N. Brown -- The foundations of friendship: Amicitia, literary production, and spiritual community in Marie de France / Stella Wang -- Friendship and resistance in the Vitae of Italian holy women / Andrea Boffa -- Sisters and friends: the medieval nuns of Syon Abbey / Alexandra Verini -- "Amonge maydenes moo": gender-based community, racial thinking, and aristocratic women's work in Emaré / Lydia Yaitsky Kertz -- Women's communities and the possibility of friendship in the Stanzaic Morte Arthur / Usha Vishnuvajjala -- Female friendship in late medieval English literature: cultural translation in Chaucer, Gower, and Malory / Melissa Ridley Elmes -- Cultivating cummarship: female friendship, alcohol, and pedagogical community in the alewife poem / Carissa M. Harris -- "All these relationships between women": Chaucer and the Bechdel test for female friendship / Karma Lochrie -- The politics of virtual friendship in Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies / Christine Chism -- Prosthetic friendship and the theater of fraternity / Laurie A. Finke -- Conversations among friends: Ælfflæd, Iurminburg, and the arts of storytelling / Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing -- Afterword: Friendship at a distance / Penelope Anderson.

The Nancy N. Boothe papers, 1980-2009 [bulk 1990-1997], are composed of articles, notes, reports and a wide variety of feminist publications. Much of the material documents the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women, which Ms. Boothe attended as Executive Director of Atlanta's Feminist Women's Health Center. Artifacts, artwork and textiles relate to the conference and to other women's and health issues. ; Born in Battles Wharf, Alabama (1948), Nancy N. Boothe graduated from the University of South Alabama as a registered nurse (1971). She received a B.S. in nursing from the Medical College of Georgia (1976), and a master's degree in Counseling from Troy State University [Florida Region] (1981). Boothe served in the U.S. Nurse Corps in the U.S. and Korea (1970-1984), and worked as clinical director and consultant at a number of health facilities in Louisiana and Florida. She became Executive Director of the Atlanta Feminist Women's Health Center in 1994. In 1995, she attended the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, where she taught the workshop, ""GYN Self-Help."" Boothe has served on the boards of All Women's Health Services in Portland and Eugene, Oregon; the Sexual Assault Center, Atlanta, Georgia; and the Jeanette Rankin Foundation, Athens, Georgia. She is also a member of the Feminist Majority Foundation's ""Women's Commission for Congressional Oversight"" and A.P.D. Citizen Review Panel.; Founded in California in 1971 by Carol Downer (1933-) and Lorraine Rothman (1932-2007), the Feminist Women's Health Center was established to empower women through self-knowledge, education and self-help groups. The Atlanta Feminist Women's Health Center was established in 1977. Its mission is to ""provide accessible, comprehensive gynecological healthcare to all who need it without judgment. As innovative healthcare leaders, [they] work collaboratively within [their] community and nationally to promote reproductive health, rights and justice. [They] advocate for wellness, uncensored health information and fair public policies by educating the larger community and empowering [their] clients to make their own decisions.""; The United Nations convened the Fourth World Conference on Women, September 4-15, 1995, in Beijing, China, with a Platform for Action that aimed at achieving greater equality and opportunity for women. Three previous World Conferences were held in Mexico City (International Women's Year, 1975), Copenhagen (1980) and Nairobi (1985). 189 governments and more than 5,000 representatives from 2,100 non-governmental organizations participated in the Beijing Conference. The principal themes were the advancement and empowerment of women in relation to women's human rights, women and poverty, women and decision-making, the girl-child, violence against women and other areas of concern. The resulting documents of the Conference are The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. The U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women manifested a global women's movement for change and has been called ""the Woodstock of the women's movement.""; The World Conference on Women was also accompanied by an informal meeting (August 30-September 8) of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). This NGO Forum on Women, Beijing '95, brought together thousands of women from around the world to exchange information and ideas, celebrate women's achievements and contributions and draw attention and develop solutions to discrimination facing women world-wide.