Over 50 million females are "missing" from China's current population. In certain regions one in three girls between 15 and 19 is married. The US pornography industry generates between two and three billion dollars each year. These statistics may bother you, but what will stick with you here are the shocking images and stories of women who survived violence, and those who did not. The result is a completely uncompromising look at how women and children around the world are hated, raped, exploited and murdered in son preference, sexual abuse of children, child prostitution and pornography, female genital mutilation, child marriage, violence against girls in schools, sex trafficking, dowry crimes and bride-price abuse, intimate partner violence, crimes of "honor," abuse of older women, and sexual violence in times of war. The text also considers means of ending their horror, and the CD includes advocacy materials. This is a very important book. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Read Less