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Actress and human rights activist Judd has recorded her experiences
both abroad and at home in journal entries, which she has woven
into a highly personal and powerful memoir about change, hope, and
human transformation. This edition of the "New York Times"
bestseller features a new Afterword by Judd.
#1 National Bestseller
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. A Zimbabwean
mother of five, counseled to return to school, earned her doctorate
and became an expert on AIDS.
Through these stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key
to economic progress lies in unleashing women's potential. They
make clear how so many people have helped to do just that, and how
we can each do our part. Throughout much of the world, the greatest
unexploited economic resource is the female half of the population.
Countries such as China have prospered precisely because they
emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy.
Unleashing that process globally is not only the right thing to do;
it's also the best strategy for fighting poverty.
Deeply felt, pragmatic, and inspirational, "Half the Sky" is
essential reading for every global citizen.
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.
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. A Zimbabwean
mother of five, counseled to return to school, earned her doctorate
and became an expert on AIDS.
Through these stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key
to economic progress lies in unleashing women's potential. They
make clear how so many people have helped to do just that, and how
we can each do our part. Throughout much of the world, the greatest
unexploited economic resource is the female half of the population.
Countries such as China have prospered precisely because they
emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy.
Unleashing that process globally is not only the right thing to do;
it's also the best strategy for fighting poverty.
Deeply felt, pragmatic, and inspirational, "Half the Sky" is
essential reading for every global citizen.
The definitive book on China's uneasy transformation into an economic and political superpower by two Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporters. An insightful and thought-provoking analysis of daily life in China, China Wakes is an exemplary work of reportage. 16 pages of photos.
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