Can you envisage a woman being beaten by a Russian man (probably her husband) in a public area until blood covered the ground and the thrashing being accepted as a male's right to discipline his wife? Can you visualise yourself as a Guatemalan woman considered unworthy of an education? Imagine that you are a Muslim woman who is gang-raped by Serbian soldiers in Kosovo and that consequently your husband and family abandons you because you have been violated through fault of your own. Imagine being a Macedonian woman who is told that her twelve-year-old daughter's marriage has been arranged to a middle-aged man. Can you envisage living even one day in the shoes of these women?Winnie Williams has travelled to more than forty countries, observing and learning how these and many other such events control the everyday lives of women worldwide. Cultural traditions, religion, politics, social structures and the patriarchal philosophy of male domination have all forced many women to accept their inferior status as the reality, as the rm. The compelling firsthand experiences described in this book bring awareness to the, often grim, plight of women around the world.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Blue Dolphin Publishing
ISBN-10
1577331842
ISBN-13
9781577331841
eBay Product ID (ePID)
103637799
Product Key Features
Author
Winnie V. Williams
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Popular Culture & Media: General Interest
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Nevada City, CA
First Published
2011
Out-Of-Print Date
24/02/2017
Date of Publication
01/06/2006
Imprint
Blue Dolphin Publishing
Country of Publication
United States
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