A Call to Action, Jimmy Carter
A Call to Action, Jimmy Carter
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A Call to Action
Women, Religion, Violence, and Power

Author: Jimmy Carter

Narrator: Jimmy Carter

Unabridged: 6 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/25/2014


Synopsis

In the highly acclaimed bestselling A Call to Action, President Jimmy Carter addresses the world’s most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: the ongoing discrimination and violence against women and girls.

President Carter was encouraged to write this book by a wide coalition of leaders of all faiths. His urgent report covers a system of discrimination that extends to every nation. Women are deprived of equal opportunity in wealthier nations and “owned” by men in others, forced to suffer servitude, child marriage, and genital cutting. The most vulnerable and their children are trapped in war and violence.

A Call to Action addresses the suffering inflicted upon women by a false interpretation of carefully selected religious texts and a growing tolerance of violence and warfare. Key verses are often omitted or quoted out of context by male religious leaders to exalt the status of men and exclude women. And in nations that accept or even glorify violence, this perceived inequality becomes the basis for abuse.

Carter draws upon his own experiences and the testimony of courageous women from all regions and all major religions to demonstrate that women around the world, more than half of all human beings, are being denied equal rights. This is an informed and passionate charge about a devastating effect on economic prosperity and unconscionable human suffering. It affects us all.

About Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter was the thirty-ninth President of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981. In 1982, he and his wife founded The Carter Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of people around the world. Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, and was the author of thirty books, including A Full Life: Reflections at NinetyA Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power; An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood; and Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis. He died in 2024 at the age of 100. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Deborah on September 05, 2015

When did black Americans get the right to vote? If you answer, "1965," you are very cool and we can have a friendly, spirited discussion about whether having "the right" to do something is really a right if you can’t actually act on that right. And we may have to agree to disagree, because technicall......more

Goodreads review by Carla on April 23, 2014

Forget what your "politics" are. This man is beyond reproach for his championing of women's rights, human rights. While the book is backed up by statistics that blow you away, certainly some of the more depraved practices, both cultural and religious, around the world will haunt you. I finished this......more

Goodreads review by Ms.pegasus on March 05, 2020

Religion has for centuries been linked with violence and inhuman cruelty. Former President, Jimmy Carter, a deeply religious man, devotes this book to uncoupling that connection. His focus is on violence, subjugation, abuse, and discrimination against women. He starts with the flawed dogma propagate......more

Goodreads review by Mel on May 29, 2014

After a lot of books with subtitles like "A call to action" I find myself wondering what marketing genius didn't think I'd mind the complete absence of actionable items. This is not the case here. President Carter goes into the specifics of some important work being done by a lot of people, gives nu......more

Goodreads review by Vannessa on April 24, 2017

From the book The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that men and women are equal ratified in 1948 by a vote of 48 to 0 yet it is not honored Jimmy Carter was the first American president born in a hospital The first pope, Saint Peter was married, because Jesus healed his mother-in-law In Nove......more