[hr-education-na] Re: Requesting teaching resources about violence against women

Nancy:

What a great list of resources people have suggested!  I would like to add
a few, but some might not be suitable, because of graphic content, for
impressionable younger students:

Circles of Madness: Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, by Marjorie Agosín, a
bilingual collection of poetry about the women whose demands for answers
about their children's disappearance in Argentina continue today, after 30
years.

The Little Schoolhouse, by Alicia Partnoy, about her torture in Argentina;
not recommended for less mature students.

Ariel Dorfmann's play, Death and the Maiden, and the film of the same
title, tells of a victim of torture in Latin America (presumably Chile)
who later encounters her torturer and extracts vengeance through a mock
trial.  (I'm really simplifying the content!)

Women in Exile, by Mahnaz Afkhami, is based on interviews by women in
exile from many different countries, in which they recount the violence
that led to their exile.

Women Writing Resistance:  Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean,
edited by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, has essays by many women about
their struggle.  It includes a chapter by Marjorie Agosín with bilingual
poetry about the nearly 380 women of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico who have been
murdered in the past ten years, and who are the subject of the documentary
film, Señorita Extraviada.

Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize winner from Burma (Myanmar)  has a
recently published book; and a short biography by Bettina Ling, Aung San
Suu Ky: Standing Up for Democracy in Burma, provides excellent cultural
information.  (I believe the film based on her is titled Beyond Rangoon.)

I, Rigoberta tells of the struggles of the indigenous people of Guatemala,
as told by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú.  This book, and
others by and about Menchú, are also available in Spanish.

The Fall, 2003 issue of the Fourth R, a publication of Amnesty
International USA's Educators' Program, has an article by Ellen Moore with
suggestions for books and films that teach about women's rights.  Her list
includes Norma Khouri's Honor Lost, about Jordanian women, and other books
about Muslim women; she extends the list to other cultures and periods of
history, and suggests films such as Rabbit-Proof Fence, from Australia,
and The Pianist.

To request a copy of the Fourth R, go to
http://www.amnestyusa.org/education/ or write to:
<education@aiusa.org>.

I look forward to other suggestions.

Christy Hargesheimer



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