Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
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Two Pulitzer Prize winners expose the most pervasive human rights violation of our era-the oppression of women in the developing world-and tell us what we can do about it.An old Chinese proverb says "Women hold up half the sky." Then why do the women of Africa and Asia persistently suffer human rights abuses? Continuing their focus on humanitarian issues, journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn take us to Africa and Asia, where many women live in profoundly dire circumstances-and some succeed against all odds.A Cambodian teenager is sold into sex slavery; a formerly illiterate woman becomes a surgeon in Addis Ababa. An Ethiopian woman is left for dead after a difficult birth; a gang rape victim galvanizes the international community and creates schools in Pakistan. An Afghan wife is beaten by her husband and mother-in-law; a former Peace Corps volunteer founds an organization that educates and campaigns for women's rights in Senegal.Through their... The New York Times - Irshad Manji …this gripping call to conscience…tackles atrocities and indignities from sex trafficking to maternal mortality, from obstetric fistulas to acid attacks, and absorbing the fusillade of horrors can feel like an assault of its own. But the poignant portraits of survivors humanize the issues, divulging facts that moral outrage might otherwise eclipse.
Introduction: The Girl Effect xiChapter 1 Emancipating Twenty-First-Century Slaves 3Fighting Slavery from Seattle 17Chapter 2 Prohibition and Prostitution 23Rescuing Girls Is the Easy Part 35Chapter 3 Learning to Speak Up 47The New Abolitionists 54Chapter 4 Rule by Rape 61Mukhtar's School 70Chapter 5 The Shame of "Honor" 81"Study Abroad"-in the Congo 88Chapter 6 Maternal Mortality-One Woman a Minute 93A Doctor Who Treats Countries, Not Patients 103Chapter 7 Why Do Women Die in Childbirth? 109Edna's Hospital 123Chapter 8 Family Planning and the "God Gulf" 131Jane Roberts and Her 34 Million Friends 146Chapter 9 Is Islam Misogynistic? 149The Afghan Insurgent 161Chapter 10 Investing in Education 167Ann and Angeline 179Chapter 11 Microcredit: The Financial Revolution 185A CARE Package for Goretti 199Chapter 12 The Axis of Equality 205Tears over Time Magazine 216Chapter 13 Grassroots vs. Treetops 221Girls Helping Girls 230Chapter 14 What You Can Do 233Four Steps You Can Take in the Next Ten Minutes 252Appendix: Organizations Supporting Women 255Acknowledgments 259Notes 261Index 281
