AWAKENING

Bringing together political analysis and powerful storytelling from some of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman, Awakening chronicles the remarkable global impact of the #MeToo movement.

Awakening takes readers to the front lines of a networked movement that's fundamentally shifting how women organize for their own equality. With in-depth, original reporting, the book tells the stories of brave women in six countries who have used technology to raise their voices, capture national attention, and sow the seeds for a revolution.

In northern Nigeria, #ArewaMeToo caught fire, uniting Muslim and Christian survivors. In China, where the government represses women's rights activism, the sheer number of people active in the #MeToo movement has overwhelmed government censors. In Pakistan, women leaders are drawing upon years of advocacy against violence to fight digitally for legal solutions to sexual harassment and assault. In Brazil, the #MeToo movement has inspired a new generation of women to use digital organizing to resist the rising tide of reactionary populism. In Egypt, #MeToo activists remain resolute even as authoritarian president Sisi alleges their campaign amounts to terrorism, slander, and "fake news." And in Sweden, home to some of the most expansive gender-equality protections in the world, women are organizing online to end persistent pay inequality and underrepresentation in leadership positions.

Catalyzed by the #MeToo campaign, fueled by technology, and driven by millions more women than ever before, this global movement is resulting in the most widespread cultural reckoning on women's rights in history, and has the power to change the way we work, govern, negotiate, and make peace.

Meighan Stone is an advocate for the rights of women around the world. She was president of the Malala Fund from 2014 to 2017, and is now a senior fellow in the Council on Foreign Relations' Women and Foreign Policy program. She has served as entrepreneurship fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center. Named one of Fast Company's Most Creative People, Stone has led high-level advocacy, development, and media projects with Bono's ONE Campaign, the United Nations, World Economic Forum, FIFA World Cup, and G7 summits and with political campaigns, world leaders, and technology corporations. Her writing on global women's issues has appeared in TIME, Fortune, Quartz, the Hill, and Foreign Affairs.

Rachel Vogelstein has dedicated her career to elevating women and girls. She is the Douglas Dillon senior fellow and director of the Women and Foreign Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations, writing frequently in the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, and elsewhere on the most important issues facing women globally. Previously, she served as a top counselor to Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton on domestic and global women's issues, was a member of the Obama administration's White House Council on Women and Girls, and served as a top official in the Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues at the U.S. Department of State. She serves on the boards of Planned Parenthood Global and the National Women's History Museum, and earned the Secretary of State's Superior Honor Award and a National Association of Women Lawyers Award.