This time around, Hari has an awfully depressing piece on Ethiopia--on how women are, well, kidnapped, raped, and married, and then abused throughout their married lives. (ht) Ok, Hari does show that there is work being done on preventing/outlawing this. A grim reminder of the state of "half the sky" even as we observe women's history month!
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Kidnapped. Raped. Married.
I have followed Johann Hari's' essays for a few years now. He is simply fantastic--a clear thinker with an equally clear prose. I think I have even used his essay(s) on Ayaan Hirsi Ali in my classes. And then there was the strange case of Hari's essay causing a riot in Calcutta Kolkata after it was reprinted in the Statesman.
This time around, Hari has an awfully depressing piece on Ethiopia--on how women are, well, kidnapped, raped, and married, and then abused throughout their married lives. (ht) Ok, Hari does show that there is work being done on preventing/outlawing this. A grim reminder of the state of "half the sky" even as we observe women's history month!
This time around, Hari has an awfully depressing piece on Ethiopia--on how women are, well, kidnapped, raped, and married, and then abused throughout their married lives. (ht) Ok, Hari does show that there is work being done on preventing/outlawing this. A grim reminder of the state of "half the sky" even as we observe women's history month!
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