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Just Different

By Malika Moustadraf

A trans youth relates her experience growing up in a Muslim environment.

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In N. Africa & Middle East Tags: cruelty, dignity, gender, relationships, feminism, discrimination, religion

Advancing Luna – And Ida B. Wells

By Alice Walker

A black civil rights worker reflects on her white friend’s report that she was raped by a black man in the South.

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In North America Tags: rape, race, race and ethnicity, discrimination, feminism

The Model

By Guy de Maupassant

A French painter falls in and out of love with a model.

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In Europe Tags: Love, social class, sacrifice, compassion, manipulation, happiness, feminism, relationships

The Arrangers of Marriage

By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A Nigerian woman enters into an arranged marriage with a Nigerian man and leaves Nigeria to live with her new husband who is interning to be a medical doctor in New York.

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In Africa Tags: arranged marriage, forced marriage, child marriage, migration, culture, truth, relationships, feminism

Emma Zunz

By Jorge Luis Borges

Emma Zunz’s father was falsely accused of embezzlement. When she receives news of his death, she decides to exact a chilling revenge on the real culprit.

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In Latin America Tags: revenge, rape, truth, feminism

Hills like White Elephants

By Ernest Hemingway

A light-hearted conversation between a couple in a bar turns to the question whether she will or will not have an abortion.

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In North America Tags: feminism, paternalism, abortion, relations, respect for autonomy

A Jury of Her Peers

By Susan Glaspell

Mrs. Wright is suspected of murdering her husband and is in detention. A team of men visit the crime scene to conduct an investigation, joined by their wives who find out what really happened.

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In North America Tags: domestic abuse, feminism, respect for autonomy, relations, cruelty

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