Rula quawas biography of william
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Impending Revelation: Ripley’s Call for Women’s Recognition
1American female writers who fought for women’s rights in the first half of the nineteenth century did so in many different ways for, beyond the shared belief that social and intellectual discrimination of woman should end, every writer seemed to have her own idea about how greater equality should be achieved. Lydia Maria Child, for instance, did not always agree with her contemporaries on how far the notion of gender should be pushed. The New-Englander author of Letters from New-York (1841–1843) noted that “much of the talk about Women’s Rights offends both my reason and my taste. I am not of those who maintain that there is no sex in souls” (250). While she believed that there were essential differences between man and woman, Child insisted that those should not be used to justify the subordination of the latter. She denounced men’s uncontrolled tendency to aggression, lamenting “[t]hat animal instinct and brute forc
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Anglo Saxonica
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The nineteenth century marked the first important milestone in the history of women not only because of increased awareness about their situation, which would lead to the feminist movement, but also because such gender awareness and feminist attitudes became part of the literary canon, forever changing the way the works of women writers would be written and interpreted. Believing that women’s history may offer a vantage point from which to assess and understand how a society works, this article makes women’s issues its main focus. The setting is the controversial nineteenth century, which is examined through a combined approach of close reading and an analysis of secondary sources. This article is a comparative study of two stories produced by two nineteenth century American women writers tackling the situation of the women of the time, the difficult transition from male expectations to female self-assertion, and the importance of such texts
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The late Dr. Rula Quawas was a notable and incredible Jordanian academic and a dear friend and mentor to many, known for her advocacy for women's advancement and empowerment in Jordan. Dr. Rula helped to support other academics and even her own students to change the narrative of women in Jordan and beyond. She was also the first to introduce courses on feminism at the University of Jordan and in 2006, she founded the university’s Women’s Studies Center that is still a major academic schema to this day.
Dr. Quawas was a close friend to the Fulbright kommission in Jordan, and was selected as a Fulbright Scholar in Residence (S-I-R) at Champlain College in Vermont for the academic year 2013-14. One of the courses Dr. Rula taught was on contemporary Arab women writers; where she highlighted literature within its cultural,socio-economic and historic context, and talked about the significance of politics and economics of gender relations in the Arab world.
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