CHAPTER 23 (1137-1171) & DOCS: PG (1182-1187)

• BARBIE & KEN = SARA & DARA (MUSLIM STYLE/ FASHION)

Represent resistance to the cultural values associated with this American product pg 1137

• After WWII: transformation of world economy, emerge of feminism, conflict & confrontation between world religions, awareness of human impact on the environment

• globalization --> international economic transactions 
• technology advancement -->  help acceleration of economic globalization
• (internet) --> communication
• economic globalization during the 1970's --> aka neoliberalism
• this favored . . reduction on tariffs, free global movement of capital, mobile & temporary workforce, efforts to regulate the economy, tax & spending cuts.
• communism collapsed at the end of the 20th century
• CAPITALISM!

• acceleration of goods, capital, and people
• world trade
• wealthy companies took advantage of cheap labor, and looser environments in developing countries
• EX: Nike closed 20 factories to only open 35 more miles apart
• immigrants - Mexicans by far the most --> COYOTES

• inflated house market
• overcrowded rural areas
• gap between the rich and the poor was getting wider . . continues
• disparities in income, health care, education, clean pure drinking water, employment opportunities
• communism started to face away

• Boston tea party (1773)
• American power influencing the world
• Attack on September 11, 2001 by Islamic Militants

• Third world countries
• cuban revolution
• The focus on Suffrage
• Women confronting different issues, and experiencing variety of different outcomes

• Feminism in the west vs Feminism in the Global South
• WEST: exploited sex objects, breeders, domestic servants, cheap labor, inferior beings, with oppressors. 
• they preferred direction action
• bringing up sexuality, "free love", lesbianism, etc.
• women wanted liberation from marriage, motherhood, and household.
• movement was also based on sexuality
•  protested with the faux mothers day parade and by interfering with the miss america pageant
• focus on voting rights to focus on employment and education
• there was no dictatorship in the West
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• South:
• issues with colonialism, the struggle for independence, poverty, development, political oppression, sometimes revolution
• resentful of the feminism movements in the global north
• Movement was not based on gender, but activated struggles for independence, poverty, development, political repression, and revolutions.
• Women wanted a part in society and the community and to feel empowered.
• They did this by forming support groups that worked on community projects
• fought against militairy dictatorships 

• "Women rights are human rights"

• Darwinian Revolution

• Muslim renewing and reforming their practice of Islam to create a new religion, and political order
• Quran --> Sharia (Islamic law)
• Sharia-based law