Woman: A Celebration to Benefit the MS Foundation for Women

Editorial Review:

Essays on the female experience accompany images of the global family of women, captured by some of the world's great photojournalists. Authors' royalties will support the Ms. Foundation for Women, which supports day care centers, safe homes, homeless shelters, and other programs. Photos.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Wonderful, Diverse Pictoral Essay about Woman:

This book celebrating all women is stunning in its ability to capture the diversity of girls and women across the globe and throughout time. Using life stages as the central organizing theme, the book offers visually rich photographs to expand our knowledge and understanding of what it is to be female in different countries, settings and social classes, and what it is to be young, middle-aged and old. Each stage and nuanced way of living--whether rich, middle-class or poor--is recognized and captured... more info

Thought-provoking essays on the experience of being female:

In Woman.: A Celebration To Benefit The Ms. Foundation For Woman, Carol Gilligan, Byllye Avery, Wilma Mankiller, and Letty Cottis Pogrebin provide illuminating and thought-provoking essays on the experience of being female in a spectrum of countries and cultures around the world. Profusely illustrated with 200 color and b/w photographs, Woman. is both a testament, a memorial, and a multicultural acknowledgment of women through a diversity of images reflecting the gender that "holds up half the sky". Woman.... more info

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