DEFINE FEMINISM. WHAT IS POSTCOLONIAL FEMINISM? WHAT ROLE DOES RELIGION PLAY IN WOMEN’S STRUGGLE?

DEFINE FEMINISM. WHAT IS POSTCOLONIAL FEMINISM? WHAT ROLE DOES RELIGION PLAY IN WOMEN’S STRUGGLE?
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Define Feminism. What is PostColonial Feminism? What role does religion play in women’s struggle? Provide examples from the readings, lecture and videos. 500 words minimum You can pick from any of these sources or anything you want Center for Constitutional Rights. Judge Throws out charges in “Los Angeles Wight” Case. October 23, 2007. https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/judge-throws-out-charges-los-angeles-eight-case The Electronic Intifada. 2007. “Charges dropped in 20-year-old US case against Palestinian activists”. October 31, 2007.https://electronicintifada.net/content/charges-dropped-20-year-old-us-case-against-palestinian-activists/784 Weinstein. Henry. 2007. Final two L.A. 8 defendants cleared: After 20 years, U.S. drops efforts to deport men accused of ties to Palestinian terrorists. November 1, 2007. http://articles.latimes.com/2007/nov/01/local/me-palestinian1 Shehadeh, M. (2002 Dec 03). The Latest New War on Terrorism. Counter Punch, 1-11. http://www.counterpunch.org/2002/12/03/the-latest-war-on-terrorism/. Chambers, B. (2016 June 15). Palestinian Community Leader Rasmea Odeh Moves Closer to a New Trial. The Chicago Monitor, 1-4. http://chicagomonitor.com/2016/06/palestinian-community-leader-rasmea-odeh-moves-closer-to-a-new-trial/ Cole, D., and Bennis, Phyllis. (1996). Ten Years of the Los Angeles Eight Deportation Case: Interview with David Cole. Middle East Report, (202), 41-44. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3013042?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents. Cole, D., and Dempsey, J. (2002). The Investigation and Attempted Deportation of the Los Angeles 8. In Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security (41-56). New York: The New Press. Watch: Michael Shehadeh: This is My Tale (AHSVIDEOPRO: 7 mins). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLirHoiQIEU Outstanding Community Leader Rasmea Yousef (Chicago Cultural Alliances, 2013: 6 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xxrl8aj8aQ USA versus Sami Al-Arian (Line Halvorsen, 2007: 100 mins) http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/usa_vs_al_arian Democracy Now. 2007. The Case of the L.A. 8: U.S. Drops 20-Year Effort to Deport Arab Americans for Supporting Palestinian National Rights. November 2, 2007. https://www.democracynow.org/2007/11/2/the_case_of_the_la8_u Reitman, J. (2016). Inside GITMO. Rolling Stone, (1252), 46-57. Zevnik, A. (2011 July). Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Detainee: Encountering Human Rights Discourse in Guantanamo. Law and Critique, 22(2), 155-169. Harlow, Barbara. 2012. “Resistance Literature Revisited: From Basra to Guantanamo” in Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics. Fink Sheri. 2016. “Even Nightmares Are Classified: Interrogation’s Shadow Hampers Mental Care at Guantánamo.” New York Times. November 13, 2016. ACLU. 2017 August 17. “CIA Torture Psychologists Settle Lawsuit”. ACLU https://www.aclu.org/news/cia-torture-psychologists-settle-lawsuit The Political Committee of Solidarity (2014) “From Ferguson to CIA Torture Cells.” Solidarity. December 17. http://www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/4319 “Who Are ‘We the People’?: If corporations are legal ‘persons,’ why aren’t Muslim detainees?” Eric L. Lewis. New York Times. October 5, 2014. Watch: Life after Guantanamo: Exiled in Kazakhstan (Vice News: 31 mins). https://news.vice.com/video/life-after-guantanamo-exiled-in-kazakhstan Read: Abdulhadi, R., Alsultany, E., & Naber, N. (2011). Arab and Arab American Feminisms: An Introduction. In R. Abdulhadi, E. Alsultany, & N. Naber (Eds.), Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence and Belonging (xix-xxxix). Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. Abdelhadi, Reem and Abdulhadi, Rabab. 2002. “Nomadic Existence: Gender, Exile and Palestine” in This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation, edited by Gloria Anzaldua and AnaLouise Keating. Routledge. Abu-Lughod, L. (2002). “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and its Others.” American Anthropologist, 104(3): 783-790. Abdulhadi and Bacchetta Call for Papers. Islamophobia Studies Journal Raha Iranian Feminist Collective. “Solidarity and Its Discontents” Jadaliyya, 19 Feb. 2011. www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/683/solidarity-and-its-discontents Hilal, G. (2013 Nov 27). Eight questions Palestinian queers are tired of hearing. The Electronic Intifada, 1-3. Chicago Dyke March Official Statement on 2017 March and Solidarity with Palestine. June 27, 2017. https://chicagodykemarchcollective.org/2017/06/27/chicago-dyke-march-official-statement-on-2017-march-and-solidarity-with-palestine/ Greenwald, Glenn. 2013 April 27. “Bradley Manning is off limits at SF Gay Pride parade, but corporate sleaze is embraced”. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/27/bradley-manning-sf-gay-pride. Watch: Liberation Spring. 2018. Dr Rabab Abdulhadi on Teaching Palestine” (FV Ep. 10). February 9, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLmyDIeC15A&t=1s “Women in Islam”: Panel Discussion at Richard Oaks Multicultural Center, SFSU. October 12, 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVh7cJUax3M Read: Meari, L. (2014). Sumud: A Palestinian Philosophy of Confrontation in Colonial Prisons. South Atlantic Quarterly, 113 (3): 547. Harbury, J. (2005). The Fall of Abu Ghraib. In Truth, Torture, and the American Way, 1-27. Boston: Beacon Press. The U.S. Prisoner, Labor and Academic Solidarity Delegation to Palestine. “We Stand with Palestine in the Spirit of “Sumud”. March 24- April 2, 2016. http://www.freedomarchives.org/Pal/Delegation.We.Stand.pdf Seymour M. Hersh. 2004. Torture at Abu Ghraib: American soldiers brutalized Iraqis. How far up does the responsibility go? May 19. 2004. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/05/10/torture-at-abu-ghraib Watch: Aljazeera. Abu Ghraib: Justice Denied. Abu Ghraib: A justice denied As a court rules that crimes committed by US corporations abroad cannot be tried in the US, what are the implications? 29 Jun 2013 14:51 GM https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestoryamericas/2013/06/2013629115945462777.html POV. Attica Prison Riot – William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe . POV on PBS. June 24, 2010. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXgP0lkqPNk Political Prisoners in Palestine (Joanne Barker, 2016: 1 hour and 45 min) https://vimeo.com/163335129 From Pelican Bay, Guantanamo and Palestine: Prisons, Repression and Resistance, Teach-in, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative, San Francisco State University, May 2013. [Sahar Francis Lecture 0-1:55:30] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B51D_oR8e8 Israeli Military Detention: No Way to Treat a Child. April 9, 2018. https://www.facebook.com/pg/nowaytotreatachild/posts/ Brad Parker, No Way To Treat a Child Campaign, September 13, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glFRraSy7Ro Report back from members of the Academic and Labor Delegation to Palestine 2014- Part 1 (AMED SFSU, 2014: 1 hour) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4u8GpC-AiQ