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1 Way 2 C the World
Writings 1984–2006
Marilyn Waring
1984 famine remain as contemporarily relevant
as her recent writings on the post-9/11 world.
Brimming with pieces that are essential reading for
anyone concerned with the state of the world, 1 Way
2 C the World is bound to fascinate and inspire.
Marilyn Waring is a professor in the Institute
of Public Policy at the Auckland University of
Technology.
‘Over the years, I have read much of Marilyn Waring’s published
work and I am always struck by several things. First,
its lucidity – her prose is richly textured but also clean, crisp,
and uncluttered. Secondly, its content and tone – her work
is always challenging, thought-provoking, and illuminating
but also warmly human and infused with humour. Thirdly,
the immediacy of its ‘voice’ – Marilyn’s voice. Reading one
of her books feels like one is settling into a stimulating and
enjoyable conversation.’
T. Brettel Dawson, Department of Law, Carleton
University
Marilyn Waring is a truly absorbing figure known
as a distinguished public intellectual, a leading feminist
thinker, environmentalist, social justice activist,
and for her early political career after election
to New Zealand’s parliament at age twenty-three.
Assembling some of her most thought-provoking
writings, 1 Way 2 C the World is a compelling collection
of essays and reflections on many important
issues of our time. Written in lively, crisp, and often
humourous prose, Waring provides illuminating
commentary on topics such as gay marriage, human
rights, globalization, the environment, and international
relations and development.
In Waring’s vividly written collection, her
accounts of being in India at the time of Indira
Gandhi’s assassination and in Ethiopia during the
Also by Marilyn Waring:
Counting for Nothing
What Men Value and What Women are Worth,
Second Edition
978-0-8020-8260-2
$27.95 / 1999
North American rights only.
Political Science
Approx. 224 pp / 6 x 9 / April 2009
Cloth ISBN 978-0-8020-9034-8 £35.00 $55.00 E
Paper ISBN 978-0-8020-9375-2 £15.00 $24.95 T
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