{"id":4744,"date":"2011-10-03T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=4744"},"modified":"2011-10-03T08:31:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T12:31:00","slug":"wangari-maathai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wangari-maathai\/","title":{"rendered":"Wangari Maathai"},"content":{"rendered":"

Week of October 3, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wangari Maathai<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the News: <\/em>Kenyan environmentalist, feminist, Nobel Laureate, and political activist Wangari Maathai died on September 25, 2011. She founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977. During this time, trees were planted throughout Kenya to stop soil erosion and to provide firewood for fuel and jobs for women. Educated in the United States and Africa, Dr. Maathai also served as a veterinary anatomy faculty member in the 1970s at the University of Nairobi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Challenge for Africa
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Wangari Maathai. Pantheon Books, 2009
\nCall Number: JQ1875 .M33 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Champions for Peace: Women Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Judith Hicks Stiehm. Rowman & Littlefield, 2006
\nCall Number: JZ5540 .S74 2006<\/a><\/p>\n

Eco-Heroes: Twelve Tales of Environmental Victory
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Aubrey Wallace. Mercury House, 1993
\nCall Number: HC79 .E5 W27 1993<\/a> (At Jupiter)<\/p>\n

Gendering Global Tranformations: Gender, Culture, Race, and Identity
\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by Chima J. Korieh and Philomina Okeke-Ihejirika. Routledge, 2009
\nCall Number: HQ1085 .G46722 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Wangari Maathai. Lantern Books, 2003
\nCall Number: SB435.6 .K4 M33 2003<\/a><\/p>\n

Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Claire A. Nivola. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008
\nCall Number: SB63 .M22 N58 2008<\/a> (Boca Raton Children\u2019s Literature Collection)<\/p>\n

The Politics of Motherhood: Activist Voices from Left to Right
\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by Alexis Jetter et al. University Press of New England, 1997
\nCall Number: HQ1236 .P64 1997<\/a> (Also available online via EBSCOhost<\/a>)<\/p>\n

A Rising Public Voice: Women in Politics Worldwide
\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by Alida Brill. Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1995
\nCall Number: HQ1236 .R57 1995<\/a><\/p>\n

Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Jen Cullerton Johnson. Lee & Low Books, 2010
\nCall Number: SB63 .M22 J646 2010<\/a> (At Jupiter \u2013 Children\u2019s Literature)<\/p>\n

Speaking of Earth: Environmental Speeches That Moved the World
\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by Alon Tal. Rutgers University Press, 2006
\nCall Number: GE35 .S64 2006<\/a><\/p>\n

Stolen Childhoods<\/em><\/strong> <\/em>(DVD)
\nDirected by Len Morris. Galen Films, 2003
\nCall Number: HD6231 .S86 2003<\/a> (Boca Raton Media Center)<\/p>\n

Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai<\/em><\/strong> <\/em> (DVD)
\nDirected by Lisa Merton and Alan Dater. New Day Films, 2008
\nCall Number: SB63 .M22 T34 2008<\/a> (Boca Raton Media Center)<\/p>\n

Unbowed: A Memoir
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Wangari Muta Maathai. Alfred A. Knopf, 2006
\nCall Number: SB63 .M22 A3 2006<\/a><\/p>\n

Wangari\u2019s Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Jeannette Winter. Harcourt, 2008
\nCall Number: SB63 .M22 W56 2008<\/a> (Boca Raton Children\u2019s Literature Collection)<\/p>\n

Women Nobel Peace Prize Winners
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Anita Price Davis and Marla J. Selvidge. McFarland & Co., 2006
\nCall Number: JZ5540 .D38 2006<\/a><\/p>\n

Women Pioneers for the Environment
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Mary Joy Breton, 1998
\nCall Number: GE55 .B74 1998<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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