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Global Gender Inequality and the Empowerment of Women

A Discussion of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2010

Uma Narayan
Affiliation:
Vassar College

Abstract

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide is a powerful journalistic account of the oppression of women worldwide, and of the ways that some women and men have struggle against this oppression and discovered new forms of economic empowerment. The book—in its eleventh printing in less than a year, and with testimonials from the likes of Angelina Jolie and George Clooney—is also a publishing sensation. Half the Sky brings much attention to an important and timely topic, and it creatively combines narrative, analysis, and policy prescriptions, and so we invited three prominent scholars of gender inequality and development to reflect on the book's strengths and weaknesses: Ayelet Shachar, Uma Narayan, and Valentine M. Moghadam.

Type
Review Symposium: Global Gender Inequality and the Empowerment of Women
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 2010

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