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Sep 8, 2008 · 4.28. 54,895 ratings5,353 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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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
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Half the Sky is the most important book that I have read since Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, published in 1962 …. Half the Sky is a groundbreaking, eye-opening book, stunning in every sense.” —Charles R. Larson, CounterPunch “Urgent …. Passionate …. Compelling …. Half the Sky is a grab-the-reader-by-the-lapels wake-up call.”
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Sep 10, 2009 · HALF THE SKY. TURNING OPPRESSION INTO OPPORTUNITY FOR WOMEN WORLDWIDE. by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 10, 2009. Intelligent, revealing and important. bookshelf. shop now. A Pulitzer Prize–winning husband-and-wife reporter team track the growing movement to empower women in the developing world.
Apr 15, 2010 · So begins Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, the third book by award-winning New York Times journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. The authors, the first married couple to share a Pulitzer Prize in journalism, began reporting on international affairs in the 1980s.
Review By: G. Stephen Goode. Half the Sky is a powerful book about women that needs to be read and championed by men. It is written by two Pulitzer Prize winners on China who write for the New York Times. The title is taken from a Chinese proverb, "Women hold up half the sky."
Sep 8, 2009 · Based on 6 reviews. Rave. Positive. Mixed. Pan. What The Reviewers Say. Rave Carolyn See, The Washington Post. Half the Sky is either one of the most important books I have ever reviewed, or it is reportage about a will-o'-the-wisp movement destined to end up in the footnotes of history ... This book isn't a sermon, and neither is this review.
