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Half the sky : turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide /

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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 childbi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kristof, Nicholas D., 1959-
Other Authors: WuDunn, Sheryl, 1959-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Vintage Books, [2010]
Edition:1st Vintage books ed.
Subjects:
Women's rights > Developing countries > Case studies.
Women > Crimes against > Developing countries > Case studies.
Women > Developing countries > Social conditions > Case studies.
Women's Rights.
Women.
Developing Countries.
Case Reports.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction- The Girl Effect--Emancipating twenty-first-century slaves
  • Fighting slavery from Seattle
  • Prohibition and prostitution-Rescuing girls is the easy part
  • Learning to speak up- The new abolitionists
  • Rule by rape -Mukhtar's school
  • The shame of "honor"
  • study abroad--in the Congo
  • Maternal mortality
  • One woman a minute-A doctor who treats countries, not patients
  • Why do women die in childbirth?
  • Edna's hospital
  • Family planning and the "God Gulf"
  • Jane Roberts and her 34 million friends
  • Is Islam misogynistic? -The Afghan insurgent
  • Investing in education
  • Ann and Angeline
  • Microcredit : the financial revolution
  • A CARE package for Goretti
  • The axis of equality
  • Tears over Time magazine
  • Grassroots vs. Treetops
  • Girls helping girls
  • What you can do
  • Four steps you can take in the next ten minutes--Appendix: organizations supporting women--Acknowledgments--Notes--Index.