Half the sky : turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide /
"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 c...
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New York :
Vintage Books,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.