Assignment Problem: Chavez and Nagel explore the intersections of gender, race, sex and power across a broad historical and geographical range. Keeping in mind both readings, how can you see ideologies of race, gender and national identity playing into the judicial dismissal of rape allegations? What relation, if any, do you see between these ideologies of race, gender and national identity and the establishment of the social conditions that made these women vulnerable in the first place? The readings in Jimenez's book point to possible action to improve social problems rooted in the fear of someone perceived as different; do you see the challenges and activities discussed by the various authors as effective?