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1979
Huston's books concern the worldwide state of families and the status of women. As in Message from the Village, published the previous year, she researched her second book, Third World Women Speak Out: Interviews in Six Countries (Praeger Publishers, 1979), as she traveled through developing countries—Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Sri Lanka, and Mexico. Richard C. Holbrooke wrote of this book:
“ …[I]t was, so far as I could tell, the first book that documented—in women's own words—the unexpected negative consequences that even a good development process had on Third World women. . . . Perdita's book was an absolute revelation, showing, among other things, that foreign aid in a developing economy often increased the inequality between men and women, especially in the agricultural sector." (from the foreword to Families As We Are, 2001, p. x)
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Cover, Third World Women Speak Out
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Back Cover, Third World Women Speak Out
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Contents page, Third World Women Speak Out
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Page from Huston's general notes
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Huston's notes in El Medani, Sudan
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