2010/03/01 by Valentine M. Moghadam · 4 citations
Social Sciences · #Art #Eleventh #Empowerment #Gender Politics and Representation #Gender studies #Law #Literature #Media studies #Narrative #Oppression #Political science #Sociology
paper · doi:10.1017/s1537592709992891
published in Perspectives on Politics 8(1), 284-286 (Cambridge University Press)
openalex publication_date 2010/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide is a powerful journalistic account of the oppression of women worldwide, and of the ways that some women and men have struggle against this oppression and discovered new forms of economic empowerment. The book—in its eleventh printing in less than a year, and with testimonials from the likes of Angelina Jolie and George Clooney—is also a publishing sensation. Half the Sky brings much attention to an important and timely topic, and it creatively combines narrative, analysis, and policy prescriptions, and so we invited three prominent scholars of gender inequality and development to reflect on the book's strengths and weaknesses: Ayelet Shachar, Uma Narayan, and Valentine M. Moghadam.