Half the Sky

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Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team, husband and wife Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, take us on a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of exceptional women struggling against terrible circumstances. More girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they are girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth century combined. More girls are killed in this routine 'gendercide' in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the twentieth century. In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth, it was totalitarianism. In the twenty-first, Kristof and WuDunn demonstrate, it will be the struggle for gender equality in the developing world. Fierce, moral, pragmatic, full of amazing stories of courage and inspiration, HALF THE SKY is essential reading for every global citizen.

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A brilliantly argued case for investing in the health and autonomy of women worldwide . . . Far from making moral appeals, the authors posit that it is impossible for countries to climb out of poverty if only a fraction of women participate in the labour force . . . The authors reveal local women to be the most effective change agents (Publishers')

Weekly (starred review) ('This wonderful book combines a denunciation of horrible abuses with clear-eyed hope and some compelling practical strategies. The courageous women described here, and millions more like them, deserve nothing less')

THE NEW YORK TIMES ('An inspiring testament to women's courage, and their struggle for hope and recovery')

Khaleid Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner ('These stories show us the power and resilience of women who would have every reason to give up but never do . . . You will not want to put this book down')

作者简介

Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of China as New York Times correspondents. Mr Kristof won a second Pulitzer for his op-ed columns. They live in the New York area with their three children.

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I get that this book was for a western audience and it reached a lot of people and did a lot of good,but this book homogenizes eastern women into the loaded category of "Third World Women" that assumes all eastern women are oppressed, uneducated, and submissive, while western women are the opposite. It puts the eastern people in the role of the oppressed and the western people into the role of savior. This book tries to cover too many countries and too many issues to really have a focus or analyze anything in a cultural and historical context. It's a modern day "white man's burden" text urges white people to go "bring civilization to poor savages."

First of all, this book is phenomenal and I could not put it down. This book is like a terrible car crash. You want to look away, but you can't. The stories described are heart breaking and stomach turning. But the ultimate feelings of hope and progress that the authors clearly express in their writing was what made me want to keep reading. I've been discussing this book with everyone I've met and have developed a deep passion for the empowerment of women across the world. This book opened my eyes and my heart to things I didn't know we're happening. This book changes you and the ways you see the world.

This book takes a broad, enlightening and inspiring look geographically and through many different cultures at women's issues and the issue of gender equality. I enjoyed it and it informed my feminist journey. I first read about the Nordic Model in this book. I often refer back to anecdotes and stories in this book and compare them to ongoing feminist debates in North America. One example are the issues of maternal mortality and women dying for want of Cesarian sections in Africa. I often reflect back on that when I listen to the "natural vs cesarian" debates in North America. Is it really a feminist issue to say that women's bodies can give birth easily and birth is inherently safe ? What would the women in sub saharan Africa think about that ? Another women's issue raised in this book was of women shunned by families and their villages due to fistula (at least in one case in this book a partner hoped for his wife to die because she smelt so bad due to her injuries). I wondered whether we have an equivalent in North America ? This book contains some harrowing tales and difficult topics but it also contains a lot of hope and inspirational happy endings.

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