CBC Books | | Posted: July 30, 2019 7:08 PM | Last Updated: January 6, 2020
Sally Armstrong
Image | BOOK COVER: Power Shift by Sally Armstrong
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The facts are indisputable. When women get even a bit of education, the whole of society improves. When they get a bit of healthcare, everyone lives longer. In many ways, it has never been a better time to be a woman: a fundamental shift has been occurring. Yet from Toronto to Timbuktu the promise of equality still eludes half the world's population.
In her 2019 CBC Massey Lectures, award-winning author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong illustrates how the status of the female half of humanity is crucial to our collective surviving and thriving. Drawing on anthropology, social science, literature, politics, and economics, she examines the many beginnings of the role of women in society, and the evolutionary revisions over millennia in the realms of sex, religion, custom, culture, politics, and economics. What ultimately comes to light is that gender inequality comes at too high a cost to us all. (From House of Anansi Press)
Sally Armstrong is an author, journalist and human rights activist.
Media | CBC Massey Lecture # 1: In the Beginning(s) | Whitehorse
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Media Audio | Ideas : CBC Massey Lecture # 2: The Mating Game | Vancouver
Caption: In Sally Armstrong's second lecture, she explores sex: the history of sex for procreation, for pleasure, for business. In our time, monogamy is the norm, but evolutionary biology suggests that in prehistory, it wasn't. Throughout history, we've seen increasing control of women — and as a result, the domination of women's bodies by men. *Originally published on November 12, 2019.
Media Audio | The Current : Sally Armstrong on the Ascent of Women
Caption: Few journalists have tracked the stories of girls and women in peril as tirelessly as Sally Armstrong. And for all the heartache she has documented, Armstrong now sees revolutionary change underway.