Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the first married couple to win a Pulitzer for journalism, have traveled widely through the developing world, researching the plight of women and girls. The stories they have brought back for Half the Sky are harrowing, but this book also delivers a message...
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Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the first married couple to win a Pulitzer for journalism, have traveled widely through the developing world, researching the plight of women and girls. The stories they have brought back for Half the Sky are harrowing, but this book also delivers a message of hope. In example after example, they show that even small assistance can improve and, indeed, transform the lives of these oppressed victims. A soulful prescription for a pervasive human rights disgrace.
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780307267146
Publish date: 08-09-2009
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Edition language: English
I’ve been reading mostly fiction lately, so it was a bit difficult for me to get back in the right frame of mind to read nonfiction, even though it’s one of my favorite genres. A journalistic work like Half the Sky is structured so differently than fiction books that it took me awhile to adjust, and...
12 years ago
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