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ALSO BY NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF AND SHERYL WUDUNN Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power For our children: Gregory, Geoffrey, and Caroline . Thanks for your love and patience when research for this book meant grumpy or absent parents and less cheering at your soccer games. You’ve enriched our journeys through difficult and oppressive countries, and you’re wonderful kids to be arrested with! And for all those on the front lines around the globe, saving the world, one woman at a time . Women hold up half the sky . —CHINESE PROVERB CONTENTS INTRODUCTION The Girl Effect CHAPTER ONE Emancipating Twenty-First-Century Slaves Fighting Slavery from Seattle CHAPTER TWO Prohibition and Prostitution Rescuing Girls Is the Easy Part CHAPTER THREE Learning to Speak Up The New Abolitionists CHAPTER FOUR Rule by Rape Mukhtar’s School CHAPTER FIVE The Shame of “Honor” “Study Abroad”—in the Congo CHAPTER SIX Maternal Mortality—One Woman a Minute A Doctor Who Treats Countries, Not Patients CHAPTER SEVEN Why Do Women Die in Childbirth? Edna’s Hospital CHAPTER EIGHT ......