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“The paramount moral challenge”
Posted in Irshaddering Thoughts on Sep 20, 2009
Greetings all! The summer’s over and I’m back — sort of. My head continues to be buried in book-writing deadlines, and will be for a while yet. But I’ve surfaced just long enough to review a new and important book for The New York Times.
Written by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn — who happen to be married — it’s called Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. Here’s a sneak peak at my take:
“In the opening pages of this gripping call to conscience, the husband-and-wife team come out swinging: ‘Gendercide,’ the daily slaughter of girls in the developing world, steals more lives in any given decade ‘than all the genocides of the 20th century.’ No wonder Kristof and WuDunn… declare the global struggle for women’s equality ‘the paramount moral challenge’ of our era.”
In my review, I also issue a challenge to the authors. I hope they receive it with an open heart.
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