Download A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power by Jimmy Carter PDF
Key ideas from the book
- Discrimination and violence against women and girls are presented as serious human-rights violations.
- The book surveys abuses including child marriage, servitude, genital cutting, and unequal opportunity.
- Carter discusses how religious texts can be selectively interpreted to support male authority and exclude women.
- Personal observations and Carter Center work inform the book’s account of women’s conditions around the world.
- The book considers advocacy concerning violence, health, and the rights of women and children.
About A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power by Jimmy Carter
Published in 2014, Jimmy Carter’s A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power is a nonfiction account of discrimination and violence against women and girls as human-rights concerns. Carter discusses abuses including child marriage, servitude, genital cutting, unequal opportunities, and the effects of war and violence on women and children.
The book examines how interpretations of religious texts in Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, and Muslim traditions can be used to justify women’s exclusion or subordinate status. Carter also draws on personal observations and the work of Carter Center activists, including accounts of advocacy and conditions he witnessed in Africa.
Readers interested in gender equality, religion, politics, and international human rights will find a direct argument about the scale of these abuses and the need to address them.
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