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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
出版社： Random House, Inc. (International Division)
書林書號：
20210267
作者：
Kristof, Nicholas D./ Wudunn, Sheryl
定價：
560
會員價：
$476
ISBN：
9780307387097
出版年份：
2010
裝訂：
平裝
總頁數：
0
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紐約時報“非文學類”暢銷排行榜 

這些女性，雖然沒有能力選擇自己的命運，但她們將絕望化為力量，勇敢為爭取生命的尊嚴而奮鬥，是一則又一則女性覺醒的生命故事。

普立茲獎得主紀思道和伍潔芳，在一九八九年六月四日，因擔任《紐約時報》駐北京特派員而目睹了天安門事件，首次深受人權議題所震撼；翌年又發現中國每週的女嬰死亡人數等同於天安門事件的死亡人數。這讓他們深自思考：新聞報導的取向是否偏頗了？因此他們將鏡頭從外交政治事務轉向披露全球人權的真相。
　　多年來，紀思道和伍潔芳走過亞洲、非洲和拉丁美洲各國，發現在許多開發中國家，性別歧視、重男輕女、貧窮飢餓、種族屠殺、處女情節等現象，讓婦女猶如仍置身在十八、十九世紀的煉獄。
　　透過實地訪談，他們詳實紀錄了非洲、印度、中國、東南亞等開發中國家，女性被壓抑、遭受性虐待、暴力殘害、失去教育、社會地位不平等，甚至醫療落後導致高死亡率的種種真實而令人痛心的案例。
　　每一段採訪都是婦女血淚的見證，每一篇報導都是自身覺醒的產物。
　　書中主角雖然各面臨不同的悲慘命運，但憑著不服輸的意志與正面的態度，為自己找到一片天。看了這些女性的故事，你會為他們的遭遇心痛，同時也為她們的奮鬥感動。

#1 National Bestseller

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.

With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict our world with anger, sadness, clarity, and, ultimately, hope.

They show how a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad. That Cambodian girl eventually escaped from her brothel and, with assistance from an aid group, built a thriving retail business that supports her family. The Ethiopian woman had her injuries repaired and in time became a surgeon. A Zimbabwean mother of five, counseled to return to school, earned her doctorate and became an expert on AIDS.

Through these stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women’s potential. They make clear how so many people have helped to do just that, and how we can each do our part. Throughout much of the world, the greatest unexploited economic resource is the female half of the population. Countries such as China have prospered precisely because they emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy. Unleashing that process globally is not only the right thing to do; it’s also the best strategy for fighting poverty.

Deeply felt, pragmatic, and inspirational, Half the Sky is essential reading for every global citizen.
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