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Courage to Say No - A Pakistani Female Doctor's Battle Against Sexual Exploitation (Hardcover)
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Courage to Say No - A Pakistani Female Doctor's Battle Against Sexual Exploitation (Hardcover)
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Sexual harassment is in the news almost every day. Countless women
have been intimidated into silence or their careers and lives have
been ruined because they refused to submit to unwanted sexual
advances. Yet, sexual harassment coupled with corruption is not
singularly an American affliction. It's an ancient disease, a truly
universal tale. Dr. Raana Mahmood's story, Courage to Stay No, is a
narrative of standing up against sexual corruption in her home
country of Pakistan. It epitomizes the courage, audacity, and
determination required to resist becoming a victim in a culture
that places little value on divorced women. One that openly allows
men to have a second, a third, and a fourth wife, all at a man's
pleasure. After escaping from her husband's physical, verbal, and
emotional abuse with her young son in tow, Dr. Mahmood filed for
divorce and took up residency as gynecologist at a nearby hospital.
After facing years of harassment from her colleagues for being a
working woman, and suffering a nervous breakdown because of the
vitriol, Dr. Mahmood eventually received a grant of asylum from the
United States, where she became an advocate for other women looking
to escape domestic violence and an inspiration to those suffering
in silence. In the vein of Reading Lolita in Tehran and Infidel,
Courage to Say No is a remarkable and empowering story for our
times.
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