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Separation Of Women's Rights

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Invisible Rights The concept of women’s rights is a sentence that I hear everywhere in the world, but I never had a chance to see it or even study it. However, every time when I hear people call women with nicknames such as white, black, Muslim, or Christian women to separate them make me think back about women’s rights. These nicknames also make me think if women’s rights represent a certain women or all women. Therefore, Colonize This! is a book that I believe can clarify for me the concept of women’s rights, and can also help everyone to recognize the real definition of being a woman. There are four sections of Colonize This! that impacted me. These sections are called, “Our Mother, Refugees from a World on Fire,” “Going Through Customs,” “Family and Community: A Litany for Survival,” and “Talking Back, Taking Back.” When I start reading Colonize This!, one of the major sections that impacted me was “Our Mother, Refugees from a World on Fire.” It contains great realistic stories about strong mothers of different colors who sacrificed themselves to feed, protect, and raise their children. While these mothers were sacrificing themselves to face the hunger and danger that threaten their children’s life, they were also trying to find rights to protect them from the people that …show more content…

that impacted me was “Going Through Customs.” In this section there are stories about women who broke down the chains of their cultural and traditional rules. Women in this section show the battle that it fought by them to get a free life cleared from any rules chains. In my opinion, there should not be a right that imposes rules on women that were created centuries ago. Women must have a life where they can choose to put their own rules in or be completely out of rules. Therefore, I would like to read more to get deeper into this section because Colonize This! covers real stories that defined brave women who lived a free life by fighting for their

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