Uprising
Subtitle: a new age is dawning for every mother's daughter
By: Sally Armstrong
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781250045287
Subjects: Women political activists; Human rights; Social justice; Leadership; Economic conditions; Social conditions; Biography; Women
Work titles: Ascent of women
Description: "From Africa to Asia to the Americas, women are the key to progress on ending poverty, violence, and conflict. Award-winning humanitarian and journalist Sally Armstrong shows us why empowering women and girls is the way forward, and she introduces us to the leading females who are making change happen, from Nobel Prize winners to little girls suing for justice. Uprising examines the stunning courage, tenacity, and wit these change-makers are using to alter the status quo. From mud-brick houses in Afghanistan to the forests of Congo to a shelter in northern Kenya, where 160 girls have won an historic court case against a government who did not protect them from rape, Uprising 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. In this landmark book, Sally Armstrong brings us the voices of the women all over the world whose bravery is changing the world as we know it"--
Notes: "A different version of this book was previously published under the title Ascent of Women by Random House Canada"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-265) and index.
Table of contents: title: The making of a revolution; title: The shame isn't ours, it's yours; title: Scriptured oppression; title: Cultural contradictions; title: Herstory; title: Breaking the cycle of poverty; title: The ascent of women; title: The final frontier; title: The anatomy of change; title: Here come the girls.