San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A beautiful book, printed on heavy glossy stock and illustrated with 375 color photographs which "create a powerful multicultural portrait of the half of humanity that all too often remains invisible. Under the direction of former television producer Faith D'Aluisio, a team of female photojournalists and interviewers was formed to take a closer look at the lives of women on the eve of the 21st century. In first-person interviews, the women share their feelings about family, children, money, love, sex, and marriage.. . In Russia, Zhanna Kapsalova, still recovering from the Christmastime 1993 murder of her husband, shuttles frantically between two teaching jobs. In Ethiopia, Zenebu Tulu, who was kidnapped into marriage by her future husband, explains that having regular, unwanted pregnancies is an unavoidable fact of life, and she resourcefully makes the best of her situation. In Albania, Hanke Cakoni bathes her severely disabled seven-year-old son, then makes lunch before her three other children return from school, while the family's goats wander through the house. 'In our country women are treated as one step beneath men,' she says, a sentiment often echoed in the interviews with women in China, Italy, India, Japan, the U.S., Jordan, Israel, Mali, South Africa, Mongolia, Thailand, Bhutan, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti and Guatemala." (Reed) SIGNED on the half title page by both authors - Faith D'Aluisio and Peter Menzel. Foreword by Naomi Wolf. Statistics glossary. Large format, 256 pp. ISBN: 0-871563983.