victim, n.
1. a. A living creature killed and offered as a sacrifice to some deity or supernatural power
b. Applied to Christ as an offering for mankind.
2. a. A person who is put to death or subjected to torture by another; one who suffers severely in body or property through cruel or oppressive treatment.
b. One who is reduced or destined to suffer under some oppressive or destructive agency.
c. One who perishes or suffers in health, etc., from some enterprise or pursuit voluntarily undertaken
d. In weaker sense: One who suffers some injury, hardship, or loss, is badly treated or taken advantage of, etc.

2. Which do you think was a better place to be involved in a women’s movement- the northern or the southern? Which movement had better, and longer-lasting effects?

3. Once Yemen is united, does Badran paint a picture of a successful movement? What about the Yemeni women’s movement is/isn’t successful?

4. On page 155 Badran writes, “In western countries, women’s movements to gain rights to vote and to be elected have been campaigns directed exclusively at obtaining female suffrage…In middle eastern countries women’s movements (first appearing at moments of national liberation and new state formation) have articulated a discourse of political rights and personal status rights within a unitary framework of citizens’ rights”. What other women’s movements have we studied that appeared at the same time as a movement for civil rights?

5. On page 167 Badran writes, “Yemeni men attempted to mobilize women to vote, largely as a function of partisan politics.” How much of a step forward is the right to vote if the men celebrate it for self-serving reasons?

2. Written Narrative: this is the “raw” form of your organizational history. You’ll turn one copy in to me and another in to your organization (they may want it in electronic form as well as a typed copy). The text from this narrative will be the bulk of your final product.
• First Draft: due April 4, this initial draft will be graded on a check-/check/check+ basis. There’s no specific page-length requirement, but keep in mind that my comments will be more useful to you the more finished your draft is.
• Length: at least ten pages, typed, double spaced.
• Organization: your narrative should be a fairly standard history, with an introduction, clear structure, and a conclusion.
• Due date: May 12, noon, in my office or via email attachment

“Gay and Lesbian History in Britain”
• Throughout the descriptions of the Stonewall Riots, the author describes the ways in which it was the first mobilization of gay and lesbian activists. What are the hints that the author is erasing a significant aspect of this history? What is being erased/marginalized?
• On the bottom of page 172, the authors look at linguistic distinctions between the Committee for Homosexual Equality and the Gay Liberation Front. What is that distinction and the reasons behind it? How is the same/similar issue present today, at least within the United States?
• How did Marxism, and therefore class politics inform the formation of the Gay Liberation Front? Are class politics still central to GLBT organizations? Which ones?
• How does women’s separation from the Gay Liberation Front exemplify the intersections between gender and sexuality?

1. Is maternalist feminism necessarily separate from other strands of feminism? (see p 108 for an example of the way this plays out in the article)
2. What is Guy’s main argument? Do you find it persuasive?
3. What role does “Western feminism” play in this article?

1. What are the main historical periods Badran examines, and how does she characterize feminism in each era?
2. How did Egyptian feminists approach the issue of veiling? How did this issue change over time? How did different groups of feminists vary in their thinking about the veil?
3. How do Egyptian feminists’ approaches compare to others we’ve studied?
4. At which points did Egyptian men and women make common cause? At which points did their goals conflict?

1. How are “feminism” and “humanism” related? How did the women Rupp studies identify themselves, and what was their reasoning?
2. Towards the bottom of p. 140, Rupp puts forth the argument that “equality” and “difference” are a false dichotomy. What does she mean by this? Do you agree?
3. In Chapter 6, Rupp describes some organizational conflicts. Do you think Guy’s argument from F&I is relevant here? Why or why not?
4. According to Rupp, how did women maintain interest in organizations that were so spread out? How does this compare to the group you’re examining?
5. Rupp also describes the level of commitment to the feminist cause organizations desired in their staffs (p. 165). How does this compare to the group you’re examining?

Professor Sally J. Kenney, director of the Center on Women and Public Policy, and Mary Rosenthal, DFL Education Foundation, founded the Women and Politics Reading Group in the spring of 2003. Since then, the group meets every other month to discuss books on women and politics aimed at a general audience. We welcome all men and women, students, faculty, and staff, elected officials, community activists, and voracious readers. You may pick and choose among the topics that interest you or come every time. For more information visit our web site.

2. In this reading, what was the role of the female activists’ husbands? What major relations can you make to the present? (i.e. politics)

3. What was the importance of the 1918 Sex Disqualification Removal Act? (legal, 272)

4. How what were the two outside/worldly factors that British or American feminists could not control, and thus, had to work with or around?

Global Feminisms
1. Why can there never be a singular "feminism"? p.9