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Rhetoric Or Rights?: When Culture And Religion Bar Girls' Right To Education, Elizabeth Chamblee Burch Aug 2004

Rhetoric Or Rights?: When Culture And Religion Bar Girls' Right To Education, Elizabeth Chamblee Burch

Elizabeth Chamblee Burch

Women account for almost two-thirds of the world's illiterates. In the year 2000, the World Education Forum met in Dakar, Senegal and set goals to (1) eliminate gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2005, and (2) achieve gender equality in education by 2015. Two months before 2004, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) reported that sixty percent of the 128 countries that attended the Dakar Conference would not meet these goals. The report attributed the failure to sharp discrimination against girls in social and cultural practices. The report failed to mention that social and cultural …

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Finding Marriage Amidst A Sea Of Confusion: A Precursor To Considering The Public Purposes Of Marriage, Randy Lee Dec 2003

Finding Marriage Amidst A Sea Of Confusion: A Precursor To Considering The Public Purposes Of Marriage, Randy Lee

Randy Lee

Before we can consider the public purposes of marriage in America, we must understand what marriage means in America. In trying to understand what marriage means, we realize how convoluted our definition has become. Without even reaching the issue of same-gender unions, the United States Supreme Court has seemingly led the way over the last forty years in confusing the concept of marriage as both a legal and social institution, ultimately reducing it to a temporary, limited, and potentially harmful relationship to which neither sexuality nor procreation need be bound.
By their insistence in characterizing marriage as a right, the …

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