Monday, September 29, 2008

Following up on our feminism discussion...

Ms. Huffman just forwarded a link to me that follows up some of our discussion yesterday in class about feminism, and the questions that feminism asks us to ask of our world. Here is an example of a country (Yemen) where young girls are frequently married at 8 and 10 years of age. Take a look at the CNN story and ponder what types of questions arise when you put on your feminist lenses.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/09/26/heroes.shada.nasser/index.html

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