Half the sky turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide
Two Pulitzer Prize winners issue a call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women in the developing world. They show that a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad and that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women's po...
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Alfred A. Knopf,
2009.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Half the sky : |b turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide / |c Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. |
| 246 | 3 | |a Turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide | |
| 250 | |a 1st ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Alfred A. Knopf, |c 2009. | ||
| 300 | |a xxii, 294 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 25 cm. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references(pages 259-278) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a Two Pulitzer Prize winners issue a call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women in the developing world. They show that a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad and that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women's potential. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Women |x Crimes against |z Developing countries |v Case studies. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Women |z Developing countries |x Social conditions |v Case studies. | |
| 690 | 0 | |a Seibel, Sophie Stein tribute | |
| 690 | 0 | |a CHABLA/Ruth E. Rishel Centre Foundation Grant | |
| 700 | 1 | |a WuDunn, Sheryl, |d 1959- | |
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