searching the globe for women who are changing the world
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Morris, Holly
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 1N 2006
- Thesaurus
- feminisme, empowerment, reizen, wereld
- Description
- Morris, in partnership with her mother, produced a PBS documentary series meant to empower women by travelling to exotic locales and seeking out 'divas': women creating positive change in their societies through passionate and often convention-defying actions. Among her subjects: the first female beat cop in India, who later reformed the prison system: an Iranian publisher of a feminist magazine fighting strict censorship laws: and a pop star who rocked New Zealand's cultural divides. With these women as the focus, Morris and her crew provide novel and extensive explorations of different cultures. Morris' interviews--with, among others, Black Panther exile Assata Shakur in Cuba: top cop Kiran Bedi in India: author Keri Hulme, who wrote Morris' beloved The Bone People, in New Zealand: and blind folksinger Pari Zanganeh, who wears a hat instead of a veil, in Iran--are thoughtful and probing, revealing the differences between their lives and those of American women.