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From Outrage to Courage: Women Taking Action for Health and Justice
by: Anne Firth Murray

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 320
EAN: 9781567513905
ISBN: 1567513905
Label: Common Courage Press
Manufacturer: Common Courage Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 330
Publication Date: September 01, 2007
Publisher: Common Courage Press
Sales Rank: 133815
Studio: Common Courage Press

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From sex-selective abortions to millions of girls who are 'disappeared,' from 90 million girls who do not go to school to HIV/AIDS spreading fastest among adolescent girls, women face unique health challenges, writes Anne Firth Murray. In this searing cradle-to-grave review, Murray tackles health issues from prenatal care to challenges faced by aging women. Looking at how gender inequality affects basic nutrition, Murray makes clear the issues are political more than they are medical.

In an inspiring look, From Outrage to Courage shows how women are organizing the world over. Women's courage to transform their situations and communities provides inspiration and models for change. From China to India, from Indonesia to Kenya, Anne Firth Murray takes readers on a whirlwind tour of devastation-and resistance.

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- superb resource
Anne Firth Murray has created a marvelous and engaging text for anyone who is teaching about women's health, global health issues, or just the issue of how social change happens. I have used this book in my own women's health advocacy course at Suffolk University, and the students all loved it. They were especially inspired by the examples of how women across the world are working to improve their lives. --Judy Norsigian, Executive Director, Our Bodies Ourselves

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- insightful perspective on the global health of women
As someone who has given lectures in the area of global health and women, I found this book a tremendous contribution to understanding how poverty and gender inequity contribute to the starting line of the anne firth murray's prologue- "being born female is dangerous to your health." She takes you through the cycles of life,--birth, childhood, adolescence, midlife and aging and walks you through all the preferential demographic imbalances and injustices that can occur to vulnerable women. I will use this book often as a reference and an assigned mandatory reading for my classes in global health. I hope to meet the author one day soon and thank her.
Michele Barry
Professor of Medicine and Global Health
Yale University

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- A Book of Hope and Positive Change
Occasionally a truly inspiring work comes along. Anne Firth Murray's, From Outrage to Courage, Women Taking Action for Health and Justice is such a book. In spite of the rigorously documented grim state of women's health worldwide, this comprehensive book offers hope that things are changing in powerful ways. Readers will be inspired to contribute to the positive change being achieved by the multitude of organizations profiled on nearly every page. These women are doing something about the injustice.

Tracing the stages of life we all go through from birth to aging, each chapter is a powerful juxtaposition of outrage provoking description of where we are today with examples of the courage to confront it. Anyone in public policy, private philanthropy, or in just being more human will find this book helpful. I highly recommend it.

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- Truly Inspiring
"From Outrage to Courage" is a remarkable book that should be a must-read for all of us. Beautifully written and extremely well-researched, Anne Firth Murray takes you on a journey into the challenges and inequalities faced by women throughout our world. This book is filled with many important facts and figures, providing a specific context within which we can better understand the enormity of this situation. One of my favorite aspects of the book is the way in which Anne is able to weave in personal stories of women with whom she has met and spoken. These examples provide an identity and a face for the millions of women and girls living in oppressive, violent, and unequal situations.

It is impossible to read this book and not become emotionally invested. However, though much of the information is horrifying, the overall feel of "From Outrage to Courage" is that of hope and perseverance. Every chapter ... Read More

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