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Description Ascent of Women by Sally Armstrong (Goodreads Author) 4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 · rating details · 138 ratings · 33 reviews This book is about the final frontier for women: having control over your own body, whether in zones of conflict, in rural villages, on university campuses or in your own kitchen. Recent studies by economists such as Jeffrey Sachs and social scientists such as Isobel Coleman claim that women who gain such control--who are not oppressed--are the key to economic justice and the end to violence in developing countries around the world. Daughters of the Revolution will describe the perilous journey that brought women to this point. It will tell the dramatic and empowering stories of change-makers and examine the stunning courage, tenacity and wit they are using to alter the status quo. It is the story of a dawning of a new revolution, whose chapters are being written in mud-brick houses in Afghanistan and on Tehrir Square in Cairo; in the forests of the Congo where women still hide from their attackers; and in a shelter in northern Kenya where 160 girls between 3 and 17 are pursuing a historic court case against a government who did not protect them from rape. Women revolutionaries in Toronto and Nairobi, in Kabul and Caracas, in New York City and Lahore are making history. Women the world over are marching to protest honour killing, polygamy, stoning and a dozen other religiously or culturally sanctified acts of violence. Sally Armstrong will bring us these voices from the barricades, inspiring and brave.  Sally Wishart Armstrong, CM (born 1943) is a Canadian journalist, documentary filmmaker, and human rights activist. Born in Montreal, Quebec. Armstrong received a Bachelor of Education degree from McGill University in 1966 and a Master of Science degree from the University of Toronto in 2001. From 1975 to 1988, she worked for Canadian Living magazine. From 1988 to 1999 she was editor-in-chief of Homemakers magazine. She was a contributing editor of Maclean's from 2001 to 2010. In 2002, she was UNICEF's Special Representative to Afghanistan. She is the author of Mila (1992), Veiled Threat: The Hidden Power of the Women of Afghanistan (2002), The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor (2007), Bitter Roots, Tender Shoots: The Uncertain Fate of Afghanistan's Women (2008), and Ascent of Women: A New Age Is Dawning for Ever Mother's Daughter (2013). In 2001, she was the scriptwriter for the documentary Falling from the Sky[1] and Daughters of Afghanistan in 2003. Related Torrents
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