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grant Network Library Program - Open Society Institue, Budapest - Violence Against Women, Womenďs Health and Girls Issues - december 1999
"-Sisterhood Is Global- has been revered as the essential text on the international women's movement. The anthology features essays Morgan commissioned from a deliberately eclectic mix of women both famous and less known - grass-roots activists, politicians, scholars, guerrillas, journalists - presenting 70 coutries, from every region and political system, with particular emphasis on the Global South. These impassioned essays celebrate the diversity and similarity of women's experience, and reveal shared feminist rage, vision, and strategies for political transformation. Each country's essay is preceded by a preface containing thoroughly researched and referenced statistics on the status of women, including data on education, government, the labor force, marriage, divorce, motherhood, custody, sexual preference, welfare, prostitution, rape, battery, and sexual harrassment, plus national "herstories", "mythographies", and more."
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