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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Khalida's love for her family and for her culture really brought this to life. I definitely recommend. ( ) Khalida Brohi is a leading voice against the practice of honor killings in her home country of Pakistan. She has started foundations to empower Pakistani women to get educations, earn their own incomes, and improve their lives. I’m ashamed to say that I had never heard of her before reading her memoir. I was a bit familiar with the practice of honor killings and was of course appalled by them. The patriarch of a family apparently has complete discretion to order a woman in the family to be killed if she brings dishonor on the family. In the examples in the book, this usually comes about when a “woman” (usually barely past puberty) decides to run away with a man who hasn’t been chosen for her by her elders. It seems to be common for girls to be promised in marriage to other families at incredibly young ages, sometimes even before birth. The girls aren’t allowed any voice in the matter. When Ms. Brohi’s cousin is the victim of an honor killing, Khalida launches a crusade to change things in Pakistan. Her road isn’t easy. Her parents educated her and encouraged her but even they sometimes struggled with her choices, especially when her activism brought dangerous attention her way. Young women like Khalida Brohi and Malala Yousafzai are where my hope for our future lies. They have overcome such immense challenges to cause such amazing changes. Khalida sees what is good in her culture and shares that here but she’s trying to effect change to make the terrible parts better. She has learned the importance of working within her cultural framework; change that is too fast or radical doesn’t garner the support that it needs and just upsets everyone. Never doubt that one person can change the world; Khalida is one person who is doing it. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. Compelling, poignant, and heartfelt. Khalida Brohi's story provides insight into a part of the world and a culture that many people likely think they understand fully. Reading a first-hand narrative account of Pakistan and honor killings has the potential to open people's minds and expose them to things they may not know about. This is an admirable byproduct of an important story that shaped Brohi's life. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. This book was compelling and heartfelt, bringing me into a beautiful but harsh world that I've never come so close to before. It has lightness and hope but doesn't hesitate on gritty, dark details. The book is doing what Khalida is doing in her life - promoting exposure between cultures to allow us to learn and appreciate the differences and similarities between our worlds. It makes me want to learn more. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. What a powerful, eye-opening memoir of Pakistan culture and honor killings. This book reminded me a bit of I Am Malala (which I loved). Khalida is truly an inspirational woman and as a woman I felt like this book was incredibly empowering. It was sometimes a bit difficult to follow, but overall, definitely a worthwhile read that I feel like I learned a lot from and will be thinking about for some time. It goes to show just how much impact one person can have. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"A fearless memoir about tribal life in Pakistan--and the act of violence that inspired one ambitious young woman to pursue a life of activism and female empowerment. From a young age, Khalida Brohi was raised to believe in the sanctity of arranged marriage. Her mother was forced to marry a thirteen-year-old boy when she was only nine; Khalida herself was promised as a bride before she was even born. But her father refused to let her become a child bride. He was a man who believed in education, not just for himself but for his daughters, and Khalida grew up thinking she would become the first female doctor in her small village. Khalida thought her life was proceeding on an unusual track for a woman of her circumstances, but one whose path was orderly and straightforward. Everything shifted for Khalida when she found out that her beloved cousin had been murdered by her uncle in a tradition known as 'honor killing.' Her cousin's crime? She had fallen in love with a man who was not her betrothed. This moment ignited the spark in Khalida Brohi that inspired a globe-spanning career as an activist, starting at the age of sixteen. From a tiny cement-roofed room in Karachi where she was allowed ten minutes of computer use per day, Brohi created a Facebook campaign that went viral. From there, she created a foundation focused on empowering the lives of women in rural communities through education and employment opportunities, while crucially working to change the minds of their male partners, fathers, and brothers. This book is the story of how Brohi, while only a girl herself, shone her light on the women and girls of Pakistan, despite the hurdles and threats she faced along the way. And ultimately, she learned that the only way to eradicate the parts of a culture she despised was to fully embrace the parts of it that she loved."--Dust jacket. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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