a post-modern analysis of "women in the new east"

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This was not a view of all the women in the Muslim world and India as Woodsmall attains, but just those that had been educated and influenced by the West. In the section entitled "Political Status", Woodsmall delineates the "progress" of Turkish women in attainment of equal political rights when she writes, "The number of women in the Grand National Assembly is not a final criterion of progress...
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The election of eight women after hard personal campaigns ? indicates more advance than the election of sixteen women through the special selection basis of the former one-party system." (29) That it's not just the quantity but also quality of women in parliament that measure how successful feminism is...
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