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The Unfinished Revolution
Minky Worden
Voices from the Global Fight for Women's Rights
Seven Stories Press
March 2012
On Sale: March 6, 2012
384 pages ISBN: 1609803876 EAN: 9781609803872 Paperback
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Non-Fiction
“It’s a time of change in the world, with dictators toppling
and new opportunities rising, but any revolution that
doesn’t create equality for women will be incomplete. The
time has come to realize the full potential of half the
world’s population.” —Christiane Amanpour, from the
foreword The Unfinished Revolution
tells the story of the global struggle to secure basic
rights for women and girls, including in the Middle East
where the Arab Spring raised high hopes, but the political
revolutions are so far insufficient to guarantee
progress. Around the world, women and girls are
trafficked into forced labor and sex slavery, trapped in
conflict zones where rape is a weapon of war, prevented from
attending school, and kept from making deeply personal
choices in their private lives, such as whom and when to
marry. In many countries, women are second-class citizens by
law. In others, religion and traditions block freedoms such
as the right to work, study or access health care. Even in
the United States, women who are victims of sexual violence
often do not see their attackers brought to justice.
More than 30 writers—Nobel Prize laureates,
leading activists, top policymakers, and former victims—have
contributed to this anthology. Drawing from their rich
personal experiences, they tackle some of the toughest
questions and offer bold new approaches to problems
affecting hundreds of millions of women. This volume is
indispensable reading, providing thoughtful analysis from a
never-before assembled group of advocates. It shows that the
fight for women’s equality is far from over. As Leymah
Gbowee, 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate says, “Women are not
free anywhere in this world until all women in the world are
free.”
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