Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl Wudunn

Half The Sky (eBook, ePUB)

How to Change the World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team, husband and wife Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, take us on a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of exceptional women struggling against terrible circumstances. More girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they are girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth century combined. More girls are killed in this routine 'gendercide' in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the twentieth century.

In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth, it was totalitarianism. In the twenty-first, Kristof and WuDunn demonstrate, it will be the struggle for gender equality in the developing world. Fierce, moral, pragmatic, full of amazing stories of courage and inspiration, HALF THE SKY is essential reading for every global citizen.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748117758
• Artikelnr.: 39681735

Autorenporträt

Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The Girl Effect
 
Chapter One Emancipating Twenty-First-Century Slaves
   Fighting Slavery from Seattle
 
Chapter Two Prohibition and Prostitution
   Rescuing Girls Is the Easy Part
 
Chapter Three Learning to Speak Up
   The New Abolitionists
 
Chapter Four Rule by Rape
   Mukhtar's School
 
Chapter Five The Shame of "Honor"
   "Study Abroad"—in the Congo
 
Chapter Six Maternal Mortality—One Woman a Minute
   A Doctor Who Treats Countries, Not Patients
 
Chapter Seven Why Do Women Die in Childbirth?
   Edna's Hospital
 
Chapter Eight Family Planning and the "God Gulf"
   Jane Roberts and Her 34 Million Friends
 
Chapter Nine Is Islam Misogynistic?
   The Afghan Insurgent
 
Chapter Ten Investing in Education
   Ann and Angeline
 
Chapter Eleven Microcredit: The Financial Revolution
   A CARE Package for Goretti
 
Chapter Twelve The Axis of Equality
    Tears over Time Magazine
 
Chapter Thirteen Grassroots vs. Treetops
   Girls Helping Girls
 
Chapter Fourteen What You Can Do
   Four Steps You Can Take in the Next Ten Minutes
 
Appendix: Organizations Supporting Women
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Rezensionen

A brilliantly argued case for investing in the health and autonomy of women worldwide . . . Far from making moral appeals, the authors posit that it is impossible for countries to climb out of poverty if only a fraction of women participate in the labour force . . . The authors reveal local women to be the most effective change agents Publishers'