1 Way 2 C The World: Writings 1984-2006

by Marilyn Waring

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. Including accounts of being in India at the time of Indira Gandhi's assassination, and in Ethiopia's during the 1984 famine, Waring's vivid writing remains contemporarily relevant, while this collection includes 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.

249 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 11, 2009

About the author

Marilyn Joy Waring, CNZM (born 7 October 1952), is a New Zealand feminist, a politician, an activist for female human rights and environmental issues, a development consultant and United Nations expert, an author and an academic, known as a principal founder of the discipline of feminist economics.

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Reviews

[Christian Schwoerke · Rating 4 out of 5]

[This book is available in print, not solely as a kindle edition]

Wow! This is one impressive woman. I found her writings to be informal, informative, and charged with genuine compassion and concern. The writings span her time as an MP in New Zealand all the way to her current position as an academic and consultant to the UN on feminist economics. Her essays are informal dispatches from the trenches, writing that has been done in reaction to political events swirling around her. Her ability to skewer the hypocrisies of politicians and NGO authorities is done without ever resorting ad hominem scurrility.