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Brick by brick : building hope and opportunity for women survivors everywhere / Karen Sherman.
Van Pelt Library HQ1797.5 .S54 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sherman, Karen, 1962- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sherman, Karen, 1962---Travel--Rwanda.
- Sherman, Karen.
- Women--Rwanda--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Women--Services for--Rwanda.
- Genocide survivors--Services for--Rwanda.
- Genocide survivors.
- Women in development--Rwanda.
- Women in development.
- Travel.
- Women--Services for.
- Women--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Rwanda.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 269 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2019]
- Summary:
- "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."--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The move
- The country
- The work
- Activists in debt
- Tag you're it
- Sometimes together, sometimes apart
- Rumbek
- Grace
- Women in Rwanda
- Home
- Straddling
- Social networks
- Odd woman out
- Debora
- Women leaders
- Top of the continent
- Pain into power
- Yei
- Women's day
- Yvette
- Reentry
- Spring awakening
- Ladies choice
- Out of Africa
- A better place
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Sherman, Karen, 1962- Brick by brick.
- ISBN:
- 9781538130315
- 1538130319
- OCLC:
- 1100448422
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