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Brick by Brick

Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Survivors Everywhere

von: Karen Sherman
25,99 €
Verlag:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format:	EPUB, PDF
Veröffentl.:	15.11.2019
ISBN/EAN:	9781538130322
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	288

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Beschreibungen

Titelbeschreibung

After a twenty-five-year career spent fighting for women’s rights around the globe at the expense of time with her family, Karen Sherman looked around and realized she didn’t really know her children and felt little connection to her husband. With her world—work, marriage, family—crashing down, she made the rash decision to move to Rwanda with her three sons. While her boys attended the international school, she worked to better the lives of women survivors of war. But as the survivors—Josephine, Ange, Grace, Euphraise, Debora, Yvette, and Teresa—shared their stories of grit and determination, building lives and raising families despite the brutal challenges of war, genocide, and inequality, Karen began to see how her work was connected to the abuse in her own past, and how it was preventing her from becoming the woman she wanted to be. The struggles of these survivors, she realized, were the struggles of women everywhere, regardless of place or circumstance: striving to balance work and family, fighting for real options and choices, trying to make their voices heard. The strength of these women helped Karen find her own way through conflict zones and battles with corrupt politicians. In the end, the journey brings her home to her family and to a renewed commitment to fighting for women around the world to live free from violence and abuse, in peace and with dignity.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

This powerful memoir weaves the stories of valiant women who survived the Rwandan genocide with the struggle of their champion, Karen Sherman, to recover from her own history of abuse. The strength of these women helped Karen find her own way—through conflict zones and confrontations with corrupt officials to a renewed commitment to her family.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Author’s Note 
 
Prologue 
 
PART I
 
1
 The Move 
2
 The Country 
3
 The Work 
4
 Activists in Debt 
5
 Tag, You’re It 
6
 Sometimes Together, Sometimes Apart 
7
 Rumbek 
8
 Grace 
9
 Women in Rwanda 
PART II
 
10
 Home 
11
 Straddling 
12
 Social Networks 
13
 Odd Woman Out 
14
 Debora 
15
 Women Leaders 
16
 Top of the Continent 
PART III
 
17
 Pain into Power 
18
 Yei 
19
 Women’s Day 
20
 Yvette 
21
 Reentry 
22
 Spring Awakening 
23
 Ladies’ Choice 
24
 Out of Africa 
25
 A Better Place 
Epilogue 
 
Acknowledgments 
 
Selected Bibliography 
 
Index 
 
About the Author

Autorenportrait

Karen Sherman is president of Akilah, a college in Rwanda providing accessible and affordable higher education for women. Prior to joining Akilah, she was the COO and led global programs at Women for Women International, an organization that enables women survivors of war to restart their lives. Karen has also served as executive vice president at Counterpart International, a global humanitarian and development organization. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her husband and their three sons.

Sonderbeitrag

2/12/2020: Book talk in Telluride, OH promoted in 
The Telluride Watch
.
 
 
Link: <a href="https://www.telluridenews.com/the_watch/news/article_1de039d0-4df5-11ea-aecb-b759691b4fc1.html">https://www.telluridenews.com/the_watch/news/article_1de039d0-4df5-11ea-aecb-b759691b4fc1.html</a>