A rare opportunity to get the autograph of Jimmy Carter, a former President of the United States. Jimmy Carter will be making a few appearances to sign copies of his new upcoming book called “A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power”.
Book Signing Details
If you can’t attend please call bookstore to see if they can reserve a signed copy for you.
Time: 12:00 PM (noon)
Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Location:
Barnes N Nobles
Fifth Ave
555 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY 10017
212-697-3048
3/28/14 Noon
Barnes & Noble
Grove Drive. Los Angeles, CA.
3/30/14 2:00 PM
Powell’s Books –
Address: 1005 W Burnside St, Portland, OR 97209
Phone:(503) 228-4651
4/9/14 6:00 PM
Presidential Library
Jimmy Carter Library and Museum
Address: 441 Freedom Pkwy, Atlanta, GA 30307
Phone:(404) 865-7100
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About
ISBN-13: 9781476773957
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 3/25/2014
Pages: 224
The world’s discrimination and violence against women and girls is the most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: This is President Jimmy Carter’s call to action.
President Carter was encouraged to write this book by a wide coalition of leaders of all faiths. His urgent report is current. It covers the plight of women and girls—strangled at birth, forced to suffer servitude, child marriage, genital cutting, deprived of equal opportunity in wealthier nations and “owned” by men in others. And the most vulnerable, along with their children, are trapped in war and violence.
He addresses the adverse impact of distorted religious texts on women, by Protestants, Catholics, Jews, and Muslims. Special verses are often omitted or quoted out of context to exalt the status of men and exclude women. In a remark that is certain to get attention, Carter points out that women are treated more equally in some countries that are atheistic or where governments are strictly separated from religion.
Carter describes his personal observations of the conditions and hardships of women around the world. He describes a trip in Africa with Bill Gates, Sr. and his wife, where they are appalled by visits to enormous brothels. He tells how he joined Nelson Mandela to plead for an end to South Africa’s practice of outlawing treatments to protect babies from AIDS-infected mothers.
Throughout, Carter reports on observations of women activists and workers of The Carter Center. This is an informed and passionate charge about human rights abuses against half the world’s population. It comes from one of the world’s most renowned human rights advocates.
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. He is the author of over two-dozen books, including An Hour Before Daylight, Palestine: Peace not Apartheid, and Our Endangered Values. He lives in Plains, Georgia.
