Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon

Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon is best-selling author/photographer Paola Gianturco’s fifth illustrated book about women around the world, all of which have won critical acclaim.

Today’s grandmothers–younger, healthier, better educated, and better off than grandmothers have ever been–have launched a new international grandmother’s movement.

This unheralded grandmothers’ movement is changing the world. Insurgent grandmothers are using their power to fight for a better future for grandchildren everywhere. And they are succeeding. Grandmother Power profiles activist grandmothers in fifteen countries on five continents who tell their compelling stories in their own words.

Grandmothers in Canada, Swaziland, and South Africa collaborate to care for AIDS orphans. Grandmothers in Senegal convince communities to abandon female genital mutilation. Grandmothers in India become solar engineers and bring light to their villages while those in Peru, Thailand, and Laos sustain weaving traditions. Grandmothers in Argentina teach children to love books and reading. Other Argentine grandmothers continue their 40-year search for grandchildren who were kidnapped during the nation’s military dictatorship. Irish grandmothers teach children to sow seeds and cook with fresh, local ingredients. Filipino grandmothers demand justice for having been forced into sex slavery during World War II. Guatemalan grandmothers operate a hotline and teach parenting. In the Middle East, Israeli grandmothers monitor checkpoints to prevent abuse and the UAE’s most popular television show stars four animated grandmothers who are surprised by contemporary life. Indigenous grandmothers from thirteen countries conduct healing rituals to bring peace to the world.

All author royalties will be donated to the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Grandmothers to Grandmothers campaign, which provides grants to African grandmothers who are raising AIDS orphans.

Today’s grandmothers–younger, healthier, better educated, and better off than grandmothers have ever been–have launched a new international grandmother’s movement. If you are a grandmother, have a grandmother, know a grandmother or are interested in international women’s issues, this book will inspire you!

Photojournalist Paola Gianturco has documented women’s lives in 55 countries and has created five books as philanthropic projects. Her images have been exhibited at the United Nations, UNESCO, The US Senate, The Field Museum/Chicago, The International Museum of Women / San Francisco, The Museum of the African Diaspora/San Francisco, The Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Washington DC.

Paola’s involvement with women’s issues is long-standing. She was a principal in the first women-owned advertising agency in the U.S., co-developed and taught executive institutes on Women and Leadership at Stanford University, and served on the board of AWID (Association of Women’s Rights in Development)Similarly, her international involvement encompases chairing the Board of The Crafts Center/Washington DC (which worked with low income artisans around the world) and serving on the Board of International Nature and Cultural Adventures.

Paola has been a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, NPR and Voice of America programs as well as many other TV and radio programs around the world. Gianturco’s books are often on best seller lists (which is not typical for photographic books) and are consistently well reviewed.The Washington Post wrote that her book Celebrating Womenwas “A big beautiful book….too rich to stay on the coffee table.”

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