An excellant record of the link between faith, and religion and human rights. I would suggest that anyone interested in religious rights, women's rights, and the US foreign policy response to these issues, read this book.

This book provides a wonderful foundation for understanding the cultural norms which allow human rights violations to occur, and the foreign policy implications which allow them to be unnoticed. This book will make you want to change our policies. It enhanced my understanding of the struggles of Muslim women. A definate must read.

There isn't a contributor to this anthology who didn't show me a life different from my own, from the Chinese woman who didn't want tiny feet, so she unbound her feet at night, to the Persian woman who escaped from Iran with her two children by night with a smuggler who sounded as scary as the people she was fleeing (who killed her husband). What a shame that this book is out of print, and I hope some smart publisher corrects that soon. Gripping stories that make you think, make you want to help change the world, and make you swear to stop complaining about trivial problems.