Overview
"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 powerful true stories, the authors show that the key to progress lies in unleashing women's potential, that change is possible, and that each of us can play a role in making it happen."
Full Product Details
Author: Nicholas D and Sheryl Wudunn Kristof ,
Cassandra Campbell
Publisher: HighBridge Audio
Imprint: HighBridge Audio
Dimensions:
Width: 13.10cm
, Height: 2.90cm
, Length: 15.10cm
Weight: 0.236kg
ISBN: 9781598879285
ISBN 10: 1598879286
Pages: 8
Publication Date: 10 September 2009
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Strongly recommended. Library Journal [Starred Review] Stunning . . . [Half the Sky] belongs on the must-read list because it offers perspective, insight, and clear-eyed optimism for why and how each of us can and should meet one of the great moral and humanitarian challenges of our times. Bill Gates, Sr., The Huffington Post
"Strongly recommended. ""Library Journal"" [Starred Review] "" Stunning . . . [Half the Sky] belongs on the must-read list because it offers perspective, insight, and clear-eyed optimism for why and how each of us can and should meet one of the great moral and humanitarian challenges of our times. Bill Gates, Sr., ""The Huffington Post"""""
Strongly recommended. Library Journal [Starred Review] Stunning . . . [Half the Sky] belongs on the must-read list because it offers perspective, insight, and clear-eyed optimism for why and how each of us can and should meet one of the great moral and humanitarian challenges of our times. Bill Gates, Sr., The Huffington Post
Strongly recommended. Library Journal [Starred Review]
Author Information
Actress and director Cassandra Campbell has narrated nearly two hundred audiobooks and has received multiple Audie Awards and more than twenty AudioFile Earphones Awards, including for Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman.
