Brick by Brick
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Brick by Brick

Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Survivors Everywhere

  1. 283 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Brick by Brick

Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Survivors Everywhere

About this book

After a twenty-five-year career spent fighting for women's rights around the globe at the expense of time with her family, Karen Sherman looked around and realized she didn't really know her children and felt little connection to her husband. With her world—work, marriage, family—crashing down, she made the rash decision to move to Rwanda with her three sons. While her boys attended the international school, she worked to better the lives of women survivors of war. But as the survivors—Josephine, Ange, Grace, Euphraise, Debora, Yvette, and Teresa—shared their stories of grit and determination, building lives and raising families despite the brutal challenges of war, genocide, and inequality, Karen began to see how her work was connected to the abuse in her own past, and how it was preventing her from becoming the woman she wanted to be. The struggles of these survivors, she realized, were the struggles of women everywhere, regardless of place or circumstance: striving to balance work and family, fighting for real options and choices, trying to make their voices heard. The strength of these women helped Karen find her own way through conflict zones and battles with corrupt politicians. In the end, the journey brings her home to her family and to a renewed commitment to fighting for women around the world to live free from violence and abuse, in peace and with dignity.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Author’s Note
  3. Prologue
  4. PartI
  5. Ch01. The Move
  6. Ch02. The Country
  7. Ch03. The Work
  8. Ch04. Activists in Debt
  9. Ch05. Tag, You’re It
  10. Ch06. Sometimes Together, Sometimes Apart
  11. Ch07. Rumbek
  12. Ch08. Grace
  13. Women in Rwanda
  14. PartII.
  15. Ch10. Home
  16. Ch11. Straddling
  17. Ch12. Social Networks
  18. Ch13. Odd Woman Out
  19. Ch14. Debora
  20. Ch15. Women Leaders
  21. Ch16. Top of the Continent
  22. PartIII.
  23. Ch17. Pain into Power
  24. Ch18. Yei
  25. Ch19. Women’s Day
  26. Ch20. Yvette
  27. Ch21. Reentry
  28. Ch22. Spring Awakening
  29. Ch23. Ladies’ Choice
  30. Ch24. Out of Africa
  31. Ch25. A Better Place
  32. Epilogue
  33. Acknowledgments
  34. Selected Bibliography
  35. Index
  36. About the Author