Authors: Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, Cassandra Campbell
ISBN-13: 9781598879391, ISBN-10: 1598879391
Format: MP3 Book
Publisher: HighBridge Company
Date Published: September 2009
Edition: Unabridged
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, are the first married couple to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism for their coverage of China as New York Times correspondents. They received the 2009 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement and many other prizes including the George Polk and Overseas Press Club awards.
Mr. Kristof won a second Pulitzer in 2006, for “his graphic, deeply reported columns that, at personal risk, focused attention on genocide in Darfur.” He has also served as bureau chief in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo, and as associate managing editor.
Ms. WuDunn, now a business executive, worked at The New York Times, on both the business and news sides. She has been a foreign correspondent in Asia, a business editor and a television anchor. She is the first Asian-American to receive a Pulitzer Prize.
They live near New York City.
Two Pulitzer Prize winners expose the most pervasive human rights violation of our era-the oppression of women in the developing world-and tell us what we can do about it.
An old Chinese proverb says "Women hold up half the sky." Then why do the women of Africa and Asia persistently suffer human rights abuses? Continuing their focus on humanitarian issues, journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn take us to Africa and Asia, where many women live in profoundly dire circumstances-and some succeed against all odds.
A Cambodian teenager is sold into sex slavery; a formerly illiterate woman becomes a surgeon in Addis Ababa. An Ethiopian woman is left for dead after a difficult birth; a gang rape victim galvanizes the international community and creates schools in Pakistan. An Afghan wife is beaten by her husband and mother-in-law; a former Peace Corps volunteer founds an organization that educates and campaigns for women's rights in Senegal.
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…this gripping call to conscience…tackles atrocities and indignities from sex trafficking to maternal mortality, from obstetric fistulas to acid attacks, and absorbing the fusillade of horrors can feel like an assault of its own. But the poignant portraits of survivors humanize the issues, divulging facts that moral outrage might otherwise eclipse.
Introduction: The Girl Effect xi
Chapter 1 Emancipating Twenty-First-Century Slaves 3
Fighting Slavery from Seattle 17
Chapter 2 Prohibition and Prostitution 23
Rescuing Girls Is the Easy Part 35
Chapter 3 Learning to Speak Up 47
The New Abolitionists 54
Chapter 4 Rule by Rape 61
Mukhtar's School 70
Chapter 5 The Shame of "Honor" 81
"Study Abroad"-in the Congo 88
Chapter 6 Maternal Mortality-One Woman a Minute 93
A Doctor Who Treats Countries, Not Patients 103
Chapter 7 Why Do Women Die in Childbirth? 109
Edna's Hospital 123
Chapter 8 Family Planning and the "God Gulf" 131
Jane Roberts and Her 34 Million Friends 146
Chapter 9 Is Islam Misogynistic? 149
The Afghan Insurgent 161
Chapter 10 Investing in Education 167
Ann and Angeline 179
Chapter 11 Microcredit: The Financial Revolution 185
A CARE Package for Goretti 199
Chapter 12 The Axis of Equality 205
Tears over Time Magazine 216
Chapter 13 Grassroots vs. Treetops 221
Girls Helping Girls 230
Chapter 14 What You Can Do 233
Four Steps You Can Take in the Next Ten Minutes 252
Appendix: Organizations Supporting Women 255
Acknowledgments 259
Notes 261
Index 281