Women Reshaping Human Rights: How Extraordinary Activists Are Changing the World

by Marguerite Guzmán Bouvard and Marguerite Guzman Bouvard Brandeis University; Author of The Path Through Grief: A Compassionate Gui

Book Overview

In Women Reshaping Human Rights, ordinary yet extraordinary women tell their stories, in their own words. Their deeds span continents and have profoundly affected millions worldwide.Readers will meet Vera Laska, who as a teenager joined the resistance against the Nazis in Czechoslovakia; Dai Qing, who fights the Communist Party's grip upon the media and government in the People's Republic of China; and Juana Beatrice Gutierrez and the Mothers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0842025634
• ISBN13: 9780842025638
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Great Book!

This is a very informative and interesting book about the "unsung heroines" of the world. I have met one and know another one well and they are truely warriors of peace! Wonderful book, everyone should know about and read.