Gorkin, Michael, Marta Pineda and Gloria Leal. From Grandmother to Granddaughter: Salvadoran Women's Stories
Gorkin, an American psychologist, teamed with two Salvadoran women psychologists to explore the life histories of three generations of women in El Salvador. Their recollections of childhood, courtship, marriage, and child rearing are conveyed against the backdrop of the social upheaval of El Salvador's 12-year civil war that ended in 1992.
BuyLabels: El Salvador, History, Inspirational, Women
Halperin, Helena. I Laugh So I Won't Cry: Kenya's Women Tell the Story of Their Lives
Kenya's women tell their stories of love, struggle, happiness, and tragedy in their own words. Topical chapters feature the voices of a large range of women talking about the subjects closest to their hearts. Chapters cover marriage, childrearing, work and getting by when there is no work, women's self-help groups, genital cutting, ethnic tensions, and the new government that has promised huge reforms.
BuyLabels: Biography, Inspirational, Kenya, Women
Hofmann, Corinne. The White Masai
The White Masai combines adventure and the pursuit of passion in a story of two star-crossed lovers from vastly different backgrounds. Corinne, a European entrepreneur, meets Lketinga, a Samburu warrior, while on vacation in Mombasa on Kenya's glamorous coast. Despite language and cultural barriers, they embark on an impossible love affair.
BuyLabels: Biography, Kenya, Tanzania, Women
Bumiller, Elisabeth. May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons: A Journey Among the Women of India
The overall powerlessness of Indian women is shown through a discussion of traditions and portraits of typical individuals. Based on Bumiller's four-year residence in India, this perceptive, alert travelogue considers the prevalent custom of arranged marriage, India's scattered, budding feminist movement, population control, female infanticide and the legacy of Indira Gandhi. BuyLabels: Culture, India, Women
Murphy, Allyson and Emily Verellen. LightBox: Expressions of Hope from Young Women in the Kibera Slum of Nairobi
LightBox is comprised entirely of photographs taken by Binti Pamoja's members and essays they have written to accompany those photos. All of the pictures were taken with disposable or simple point-and-shoot cameras during the period of 2002-2004. Their expressions offer a candid look at the lives of young women in poverty. Their photography and essays display a powerful message: one of struggle, perseverance and hope. Buy
Labels: Children, Inspirational, Kenya, Pictorial, Women
Ngcobo, Lauretta. And They Didn't Die
"And They Didn't Die brilliantly chronicles the untold predicaments of women caught between custom, white law, and the migrant system. Much of its power lies in Ngcobo's talent for complication and nuance, and for her refusal of dogma. . . . It explores what happens when women start asking questions: about cattle and the land, about female power, about tradition, about violence, about sex."--Anne McClintock, Voice Literary Supplement. Buy
Labels: Literature, South Africa, Women
Born into Brothels (DVD 2004)
This film is a portrait of several unforgettable children who live in Calcutta’s red light district, where their mothers work as prostitutes. A New York based photographer lives in the brothels while documenting the film and teaches the children photography. As the children look at the world through new eyes they begin to awaken to their own talents and sense of worth and discover how education can transform their lives. BuyLabels: Children, India, Women
Booth, Karen M. Local Women, Global Science: Fighting AIDS in Kenya
There is evidence that women who live in societies that uphold male privilege - the majority of the world's women - are at increased risks for HIV infection. Booth looks closely at the operation of two clinics for sexuality transmitted diseases in Nairobi, Kenya, and explores how internationally funded and nationally sanctioned intervention to stop the spread of HIV have focused almost exclusively on the sexual and reproductive behaviour of those who are least able to challenge male power and dominance - working class and poor women. BuyLabels: Health, Kenya, Women
Benjamin, Medea. Don’t Be Afraid, Gringo: A Honduran Woman Speaks from the Heart: The Story of Elvia Alvarado
Elvia Alvarado tells the story of her life and the life of the people of Honduras. Read it and understand the struggle against tyranny of the poor. Read it and act. BuyLabels: Biography, Honduras, Inspirational, Women
Simkins, Joan. Ceaucescu's Children - The Amazing Story of One Woman's Mission to Romanian Orphans
"Joan exposes the reason for the thousands of institutionalised children-Ceaucescu and his selfish, dehumanising ways. She shows that these children are beautiful and require one thing above all else...love of God and of us who have it in our ability to help". Amazon review. Buy
Labels: Children, Inspirational, Romania, Women
Temmerman, Els de. Aboke Girls: Abducted in Northern Uganda
The abduction of over 40 girls from the Catholic School at Aboke, and the nun who followed the rebels on foot to get them back is an amazingly heart wrenching and well told tale. Els De Temmerman also offers fascinating insights into the twisted mind of rebel leader Joseph Kony, and his spiritual quest to purify the Acholi race. If at all you are interested in the Northern Ugandan crisis, then this is an absolute must read. BuyLabels: Children, History, Uganda, Women
Thomas, Lynn. Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction and the State in Kenya
By examining the political signifacance - and complex ramifications of - reproductive controversies in twentieth-century Kenya, this book explores why and how control of female initiation, abortion, childbirth, and premarital pregnancy have been crucial to the exercise of colonial and postcolonial power. BuyLabels: Health, History, Kenya, Politics, Women
Banks, Russell. The Darling
"Russell Banks takes us on a sumptuous and thrilling trip of perfect prose into Africa, through dreams, nightmares and through the life of Hannah Musgrave Sundiata. The characters in this book are so vividly depicted, so tangible that for the five days that I read this book, I became Hannah. I walked with her, felt her pain, saw things from her eyes and lived her amazing life. She will stay with me forever" - Amazon Review. BuyLabels: Ghana, Literature, Women
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LightBox is comprised entirely of photographs taken by Binti Pamoja's members and essays they have written to accompany those photos. All of the pictures were taken with disposable or simple point-and-shoot cameras during the period of 2002-2004. Their expressions offer a candid look at the lives of young women in poverty. Their photography and essays display a powerful message: one of struggle, perseverance and hope. Buy 
