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Half the Sky Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

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ISBN-10: 0307267148

ISBN-13: 9780307267146

Edition: 2009

Authors: Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn

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A call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women in the developing world. With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of women struggling under profoundly dire circumstances: a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery; an Ethiopian woman left for dead after a difficult birth; an Afghan wife beaten ruthlessly by her husband and mother-in-law. But we meet, as well, those who have triumpheda formerly illiterate fistula patient who became a surgeon in Addis Ababa; an Indian woman who saved herself and her children from prostitutionand…    
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Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/8/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.57" wide x 9.54" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Nicholas D. Kristof shared a Pulitzer Prize with his wife in 1990 for their coverage for the New York Times of the Tiananmen democracy movement in China. He also coauthored China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power. Kristof has served as Times bureau chief in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo. He lives with his wife in New York City.

Sheryl WuDunn won a Pulitzer Prize with her husband in 1990 for their coverage for the New York Times of the Tiananmen democracy movement in China. She also coauthored with her husband China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power. She has specialized in business journalism for the Times. She lives in New York City with her husband. Her latest non-fiction work is entitled Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. She co-authored this with Nicholas D. Kristof.