Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide [Paperback]

Overview

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....

This title has been selected for First Year Experience reading by the following schools: Boise State University, Eastern Illinois University, George Washington University, Indiana University, Purdue University—Indiana, Luther College, North Carolina State University, Smith College, St. John’s University, University of California—Davis, University of Texas—Tyler, University of Connecticut.

The book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN# 9780307387097 in Paperback by Kristof, Nicholas D.;WuDunn, Sheryl may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.