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Internet Exerices1. Using a major search engine, such as Google or Metacrawler, search for the topic of women's suffrage. Locate sources of information for the United States and at least one other modern nation state. Using these sources, answer the following questions. (If you can't answer all the questions from a particular source, find another one.)
- When did the suffrage movement begin?
- What sorts of activities did supporters of suffrage engage in?
- What opposition was there to women's suffrage?
- What role did the state, and its representatives (especially the courts and the police) play in the suffrage movement?
- When did women get the right to vote?
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2. Saudi women are often portrayed in the American media as the helpless victims of considerable suppression. Read the articles at http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/saudwmnx.htm, http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=countries@Area=saudiarabia&ID=SP45803, and http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=countries&Area=saudiarabia&ID=SP47203, or locate at least three more recent articles in newspapers or other legitimate media.
- What issues are identified as of particular concern to Saudi women in these articles?
- Are there issues which trouble Western feminists, but which are not identified as negative by Saudi women?
- Briefly discuss the differences between Saudi feminism and U.S. feminism.
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