E-book

Daughters of the revolution [electronic resource] / Sally Armstrong.

ISBN: 9780307362612
ISBN: 0307362612
Physical Description: 1 online resource.
Publisher: Toronto : Random House Canada, c2012.

Armstrong, Sally, 1943- (Author).

Summary:

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. Women revolutionaries in Toronto and Nairobi, Kabul and Caracas, 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.