Product Description


Bringing together political analysis and powerful storytelling from some of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman, Awakening chronicles the remarkable global impact of the #MeToo movement.Since 2017, millions have joined the global movement known as #MeToo, catalyzing an unprecedented wave of women's activism and powered by technology that reaches across borders, races, religions, and economic divides. Today, women in more than 100 countries are using the hashtag to fight the violence and discrimination they face--and winning. What started as an online campaign against sexual harassment has triggered the most widespread cultural reckoning on women's rights in history, with global implications for women's participation in the economy, politics, and across social and cultural life.
Awakening: #MeToo & the Global Fight for Women's Rights is the first book to capture the global impact of this breakthrough movement. Bringing together political analysis and powerful storytelling from seven countries--Brazil, China, Egypt, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sweden, and Tunisia--
Awakening takes readers to the front lines of a networked movement that's fundamentally shifting how women organize for their own equality.


Review


"Awakening champions the stories of women...fighting for equality...Meighan Stone and Rachel Vogelstein bring us closer to...women who are using digital activism to achieve change."-- "Malala Yousafzai, 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate"


About the Author


Meighan Stone is an outspoken advocate for the rights of women around the world. She was president of the Malala Fund from 2014 to 2017, and is now a senior fellow in the Council on Foreign Relations' Women and Foreign Policy program. Previously, she served as entrepreneurship fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center. Named one of
Fast Company's Most Creative People and on ELLE magazine's Women in Washington Power List, Stone has led high-level advocacy, international development, and media projects with Bono's ONE Campaign, the United Nations, World Economic Forum, FIFA World Cup, and G7 summits and with political campaigns, world leaders, celebrities, and technology corporations. Her writing on global women's issues has appeared in TIME, Fortune, Quartz, the Hill, and Foreign Affairs.

Rachel Vogelstein has dedicated her career to elevating women and girls, from the White House and the State Department to the campaign trail. She is the Douglas Dillon senior fellow and director of the Women and Foreign Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations, writing frequently in the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, and other leading publications on the most important issues facing women globally. Previously, she served as a top counselor to Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton on domestic and global women's issues. During the Obama administration, Vogelstein was a member of the White House Council on Women and Girls and served as a top official in the Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues at the U.S. Department of State. She serves on the boards of Planned Parenthood Global and the National Women's History Museum, and earned the Secretary of State's Superior Honor Award and a National Association of Women Lawyers Award.



Cindy Kay is a Chinese Thai American narrator and educator who grew up in the California Bay Area and lives in the Rockies. Her work has been described as listening to a "cozy best friend." She narrates fiction and nonfiction, and has studied Spanish, Portuguese, Thai, and Japanese.

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Saskia Maarleveld is an experienced voice-over actress, audiobook narrator, and three-time winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award. In addition to audiobooks, her voice can be heard in animation, video games, and commercials.


Tarana Burke has always been struck by a commitment to justice and equity. As the founder of the 'me too' movement and subsequent nonprofit, Burke works to dismantle the cycle of sex