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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide |  | Authors: Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
Publisher: Knopf
Category: Book
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Format: Deckle Edge
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Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0307267148
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.83091724
EAN: 9780307267146
ASIN: 0307267148
Publication Date: September 8, 2009
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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.
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Excellent review of the status of women. November 20, 2009
Joanne B. Griffith (Lincoln, California USA)
This is an excellent discussion of the status of women in the world, especially the third world. It is shocking, and disgusting to read the descriptions of the common abusive treatment of women throughout the world. The resilience and progress of many women in spite of there suffering gives hope and ideas for helping to make the world a better place. While I knew about many of these abuses, this book makes it excruciatingly clear that more needs to be done to promote education for women and men alike thereby reducing the power of those evil twins, ignorance and poverty.
I am planning to give this book to several people for Christmas, and to recommend it to my book club and my church for study. I heartily recommend it.
opportunity from oppression November 20, 2009
Biblio Phile (Chicago)
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
A girl in Congo who is brutally raped by rebels while she tends her family's livestock, is exiled by her village to a hut outside of it; she manages to fend off hyena who invade the hut. In the morning she crawls to a missionary, who takes her to HEALAfrica, a hospital in Goma, Congo, which repairs her fistula. She returns to her village with a new skill that she learned in the career center of the hospital. She lifts the economy of her entire village: a heroine!
So many life changing stories of oppression that result in amazing opportunity. But there is a role for each of us. The appendix contains a list of what you can do in 10 minutes. A wealth of resources.
Be the peace you seek.
Excellent!! November 19, 2009
Prudence W. Kent (Bay Area, Ca.)
This book is just top notch in every way. The research done to write this book was exhaustive, the stories riveting. The authors have included so many ways to help that it is impossible for anyone reading this book to wonder what they can do to help-it is all there. This should be required reading for everyone!
Telling the truth November 15, 2009
Jonathan Groner (Washington, DC)
Incredible, and I mean it. In their call for action, Kristof and WuDunn hold nothing back. They care nothing about political correctness, nothing about the prestige of large institutions like the UN. They just want to tell the truth. They criticize the fundamentalist Christian movement but also praise it for putting people on the ground where they matter. They criticize liberal human rights groups but give them credit where due, as well. They look for practical solutions for the problems that women and girls face all over the world -- they're right there talking about de-worming and bribing and all kinds of strategies that wouldn't occur to the deep thinkers.
The authors face head-on the issue of female genital mutilation and the argument that Westerners are interfering with deep-seated cultural norms by trying to stop the practice. This book is as honest and well-written as it gets.
Five stars.
Women, as men, are imbued with a creative potential November 15, 2009
Alter Wiener (Hillsboro OR U.S.A.)
Albeit I am attuned to current events, I have not known the extent of the atrocities, committed against females in many Asian and African countries, as narrated in Half the Sky. The authors, Nicolas Kristof and his wife Sheryl WuDunn, have tirelessly documented episodes of human suffering. They describe the enslavement of young girls and women in brothels, genital mutilation, gang-rapping, honor killing and other deprivations. Women, especially those of lower socioeconomic status, lack essential medical care and have no idea about the existence of birth control availability. It is surprising to me to learn how many people are being repressed because of their gender. The Chinese proverb that states "women hold up half the sky" makes as much sense to me as Hitler's assertion that women fit only for housekeepers and breeders. I could never find a logical explanation why the German forbade me to attend school and I am saddened to learn that so many young girls nowadays are being deprived of basic education.
I had been repressed and oppressed during the German occupation of Poland 1939-1945. As a teenager, I had seen the worst that man can do. I saw the Germans looting, expropriating, beating, torturing, shooting, hanging, burning alive, babies choked or smashed to death, starving and other unimaginable acts of extreme wickedness carried out against innocent people. I witnessed and experienced enslavement in enforced labor and concentration camps.
The most decent and compassionate person in my life was my stepmother, a female. The German who risked her life for me, thirty times, was a female. After the liberation from concentration camps, the first person who had offered me shelter was a German female. Although there were some vicious German female guards in Auschwitz, and in other concentration camps, most German women were less inclined to savagery than men. Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse Tung and Pol Pot, the most infamous dictators, in recent history, who had caused the death of tens of millions, were all males. When women are mistreated, men are intrinsically adversely affected. When women, who are the half of the population, are marginalized it affects adversely the entire population.
Kristof and WuDunn deserve our gratitude for sharing their observations and personal interviews with so many affected victims and their benefactors. The authors bring to light the devastating problems facing millions of girls and women, but simultaneously with suggestive practical solutions to those problems. Education could bring emancipation for all women. The U.S. allocates $1 billion for every 1,000 troops deployed in Afghanistan. I am not sure that such additional expenses will grand us more security here in the U.S. and/or bring more democracy to the Afghan people. I am however convinced that $1 billion invested in providing education to thousands of Afghan or Pakistan children and adults about health, hygiene, human rights, women and girls' rights, will eventually diminish sex trafficking, and the affliction of female genitals cutting. Women will enrich the countries where they live and contribute to create a better world for the beneficiaries and benefactors alike. Roshaneh Zafars, an educated Pakistani woman, says (page 191)"if I were prime minister for a day, I would put all our resources in education"
The authors lead us to pay attention to things that are disgusting. Readers are exhorted to get involved, to help financially and otherwise to put an end to the abuse of women wherever it still prevails. The authors deserve our recognition for their dedication to human rights, especially women rights. Half The Sky is an excellent literary work to enlighten all of us. The reader will be inspired and motivated to reach out to women born in countries not of their choice. It is a reference book how to help oppressed women via accountably charitable organizations. Let women's creative potential ripen!
Alter Wiener, author "From a Name to A Number"
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