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   Sep 10, 2009 · Intelligent, revealing and important. A Pulitzer Prize–winning husband-and-wife reporter team track the growing movement to empower women in the developing world. Kristof and WuDunn ( Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia, 2000, etc.) traveled through Africa and Southeast Asia meeting with victims of sex trafficking, forced ...

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   Half the Sky. Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn | 4.50 | 51,926 ratings and reviews. Recommended by Emma Watson, Zainab Salbi, Mia Farrow, and 5 others. See all reviews. Ranked #1 in Human Rights, Ranked #5 in Ethiopia — see more rankings.

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   Sep 8, 2008 · 54,937 ratings5,357 reviews. 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.

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   Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn have written a brilliant call to arms that describes one of the transcendent injustices in the world today—the brutal treatment of women. They take you to many countries, introduce you to extraordinary women, and tell you their moving tales.

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   Apr 15, 2010 · Award-winning New York Times journalists Kristof and WuDunn are optimistic that the worst aspects of gender-based inequality in much of the world will disappear, bringing us all closer to "the day when women truly hold up half the sky," according to the Chinese saying....

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   Sep 13, 2019 · Half the Sky is a nonfiction exploring the oppression of women across the world. It pairs statistics and politics with in-depth personal stories that bring to light the horrendously overlooked, systematic tragedies.

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   Is half the sky a good book?

   • It really covers every side of the story and does it so intelligently that it works on both sides of the brain in ebbs and flows; it touches you emotionally and then has you transition into more analytical thought and then back again. 'Half the Sky' is about the 'cultural', 'customary' and 'religious' abuse of women because they are women.

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   • Inspiring as it is shocking, this book demands to be read.” —Anne Rice “ Half the Sky is a passionate and persuasive plea to all of us to rise up and say ‘No more!’ to the 17th-century abuses to girls and women in the 21st-century world. This is a book that will pierce your heart and arouse your conscience.

   Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn: 9780307387097

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   • [Half the Sky] belongs on the ‘must-read’ list because it offers perspective, insight, and clear-eyed optimism for why and how each of us can and should meet one of the great moral and humanitarian challenges of our times.” —Bill Gates, Sr., The Huffington Post “Any review of this book should begin without pretence; in the plainest language.

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   Is a happy ending a Hollywood happy ending book?

   • The book is not designed to be a Hollywood happy ending book; the difficulties of aid are presented quite well. It does not bash one political party or the other, but instead calls upon the right and the left to work together. It is a call to arms at a governmental level as well as a grassroots one.

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   Feb 15, 2010 · Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) How can privileged women best help women who suffer some of the worst forms of oppression? By Kathleen Sheldon