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Ameru (Heritage Library of African Peoples East Africa)

Author: Esther Wangari
Publisher: Rosen Publishing Group
Keywords: east, africa, peoples, african, heritage, library, ameru
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 1995-05
List price: $29.25
ISBN-10: 0823917665
ISBN-13: 9780823917662

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Hippocrates Handmaidens: Women Married to Physicians (Haworth Women’s Studies)

Authors:Ellen Cole, Esther D Rothblum, Esther Nitzberg,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: women, haworth, studies, physicians, married, handmaidens, hippocrates
Number of Pages: 401
Published: 1991-07-01
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0866568808
ISBN-13: 9780866568807

“The doctor’s wife is like other women . . . She is no longer part of the creative, collective effort, but has been powerfully pushed aside , and like women all over the world, she was made into the proverbial handmaiden. Unlike her historical counterpart, she would not be in charge of herself, her body, or her destiny or that of her children. She would spend her life doing the bidding of a gender dedicated to healing while simultaneously embracing force, sterility, and technology without touching. She would provide the soft, female perspective to the men heading a profession that at o

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Unbowed: A Memoir (Vintage)

Author: Wangari Maathai
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: vintage, memoir, unbowed
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2007-09-04
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0307275205
ISBN-13: 9780307275202

In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people’s environmental movement, focused on the empowerment of women, that soon spread across Africa. Persevering through run-ins with the Kenyan government and personal losses, and jailed and beaten on numerous occasions, Maathai continued to fight tirelessly to save Kenya’s forests and to restore democracy to her beloved country. Infused with her unique luminosity of spirit, Wa

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The Challenge for Africa

Author: Wangari Maathai
Publisher: Pantheon
Keywords: africa, challenge
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-04-07
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0307377407
ISBN-13: 9780307377401

The troubles of Africa today are severe and wide-ranging. Yet, too often, they are portrayed by the media in extreme terms connoting poverty, dependence, and desperation. Here Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement, offers a refreshingly unique perspective on these challenges, even as she calls for a moral revolution among Africans themselves. Illuminating the complex and dynamic nature of the continent, Maathai offers “hardheaded hope” and “realistic options” for change and improvement. She deftly describes what Africans can and need to do

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The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience

Author: Wangari Maathai
Publisher: Lantern Books
Keywords: experience, approach, sharing, movement, belt
Number of Pages: 117
Published: 2003-03-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 159056040X
ISBN-13: 9781590560402

Wangari Muta Maathai was born in Nyeri, Kenya in 1940. In 1960, she won a Kennedy scholarship to study in America and earned a master’s degree in biology from the University of Pittsburgh and became the first woman in East Africa to earn a Ph.D. Returning to Kenya in 1966, Wangari Maathai was shocked at the degradation of the forests and the farmland caused by deforestation. Heavy rains had washed away much of the topsoil, silt was clogging the rivers, and fertilizers were depriving the soil of nutrients. Wangari decided to solve the problem by planting trees. Under the auspices of the