Half the Sky

Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Vintage)

Paperback, 320 pages

Published June 1, 2010 by Vintage.

ISBN:
9780307387097
OCLC Number:
489003156

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4 stars (2 reviews)

From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict our world with anger, sadness, clarity, and, ultimately, hope.They show how a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad. That Cambodian girl eventually escaped from her brothel and, with assistance from an aid group, built a thriving retail business that supports her family. The Ethiopian woman had her injuries repaired and in time became a surgeon. …

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Oppression Made Personal and Empirical

5 stars

This is a most compelling, relevant, and urgent book on injustice in the modern world. Even while using vivid and often horrifying anecdotes to make clear the plight of women worldwide, there are no shock-and-awe tactics here; every claim is backed with research and vetted for broken assumptions. Every opportunity is taken to move the reader from their armchair into a place of progress.

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Subjects

  • Nonfiction -- Politics -- Human Rights
  • Nonfiction -- Women's Studies