Women's Evolving Lives Global and Psychosocial Perspectives
This wide-ranging collection analyzes the status and advancement of women both in a national context and collectively on a global scale, as a powerful social force in a rapidly evolving world. The countries studied—China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Egypt, Ca
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Women’s Evolving Lives Global and Psychosocial Perspectives
Women’s Evolving Lives
Carrie M. Brown Uwe P. Gielen Judith L. Gibbons Judy Kuriansky •
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Editors Carrie M. Brown Independent Scholar Oak Park, CA USA
Judith L. Gibbons Department of Psychology Saint Louis University Saint Louis, MO USA
Uwe P. Gielen Department of Psychology St. Francis College Brooklyn, NY USA
ISBN 978-3-319-58007-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-58008-1
Judy Kuriansky Department of Clinical Psychology Teachers College, Columbia University New York, NY USA
ISBN 978-3-319-58008-1
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We dedicate this book to the memory of Dr. Shahrenaz Mortazavi and Dr. Sarlito Wirawan Sarwono.
Foreword
In 2009, the Taliban, a fundamentalist political group, released an edict that girls could not attend school in the Swat Valley district of Pakistan. More than a hundred girls’ schools in the area were blown up, and although some schools later reopened, many girls were afraid to attend. In 2012, 15-year old Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban for her years of activism in support of girls’ education. In 2014, Malala was co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her fight for girls’ rights to education. At age 17, she became the youngest ever Nobel Prize winner. Perhaps, stories such as Malala’s would not be surprising in years past, but they are shocking in the twenty-first century. Since 1990, every region of the world has seen human developm
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