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Champion of choice : the life and legacy of women's advocate Nafis Sadik / Cathleen Miller.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0803246838
  • 9780803246836
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 305.42092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ1745.5.Z75 S236 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1 Birth; 2 Welcoming the Girls; 3 Azhar; 4 Karachi; 5 The Wedding; 6 Doctor's Orders; 7 Mothers; 8 Family Planning; 9 The un; 10 The Director; 11 The Vatican; 12 Cairo; 13 Beijing; 14 Back Home; 15 On The Ground; 16 Onward; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes and Sources; Index.
Summary: Not many women can claim to have changed history, but Nafis Sadik set that goal in her youth, and change the world she did. Champion of Choice tells the remarkable story of how Sadik, born into a prominent Indian family in 1929, came to be the world's foremost advocate for women's health and reproductive rights, the first female director of a United Nations agency, and "one of the most powerful women in the world" (London Times). An obstetrician, wife, mother, and devout Muslim, Sadik has been a courageous and tireless advocate for women, insisting on discussing the dif.
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Not many women can claim to have changed history, but Nafis Sadik set that goal in her youth, and change the world she did. Champion of Choice tells the remarkable story of how Sadik, born into a prominent Indian family in 1929, came to be the world's foremost advocate for women's health and reproductive rights, the first female director of a United Nations agency, and "one of the most powerful women in the world" (London Times). An obstetrician, wife, mother, and devout Muslim, Sadik has been a courageous and tireless advocate for women, insisting on discussing the dif.

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1 Birth; 2 Welcoming the Girls; 3 Azhar; 4 Karachi; 5 The Wedding; 6 Doctor's Orders; 7 Mothers; 8 Family Planning; 9 The un; 10 The Director; 11 The Vatican; 12 Cairo; 13 Beijing; 14 Back Home; 15 On The Ground; 16 Onward; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes and Sources; Index.

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