Source Evaluation

Arat, Zehra F. Kabasakal. "Women's Rights As Human Rights." UN Chronicle (U.N. Dept. of Public Information) Vol. 45, No. 2/3. 2008: 9-13. SIRS Researcher. Web. 21 Jul 2010.
This article is about human rights, but more importantly, it focuses on woman’s rights. The article talks about how woman have been subjected to more human rights violations than men, not just in the U.S., but throughout the world. The author also goes into detail about what it would take to change this way of thinking culturally and socially.
This article would be good to use for my paper because I am trying to research why the woman of Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”, are so repressed, and link it to societies views on woman’s rights around the world. This article will definitely provide me with good information regarding this subject. I will also be able to get very credible information to back up my thesis.

Johnson, Karen.“The Day the Music Died:Woman and Girls of Afghanistan”. Search results for , Sear. Print.
This article is about the Taliban rule of Afghanistan and its impact on the woman of that society. Johnson talks about how repressed the woman have been since the Taliban militia took control of Kabul in Afghanistan. I believe what happened in Afghanistan is much like Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”, an ultraconservative religious militia took control of a part of the country. This article enables me to make correlations between real life happenings around the world and “The Handmaid’s Tale”. This article also provides me with more information regarding the repression of woman in today’s societies.
Karen Johnson is the Executive Vice President of the National Organization for Woman. She is very well respect in the woman’s rights movement as well as a published author. This article was linked to website as a reliable source for this particular information. The information is dated, which is what I was looking for. The article is sponsored by a particular organization with an agenda. It does not make me suspicious because I was looking for a woman’s point of view about repressed woman in today’s society that may help me understand Margaret Atwood’s point of view. All in all I believe this to be a very reliable web resource.