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Women of Vision: National Geographic photographers

March 13, 2014 / 3:34 PM EDT / CBS News

A new National Geographic book and exhibition, "Women of Vision,” celebrates the unique perspectives of female photojournalists.

In this image by Carolyn Drake, in Hotan, a Uygur town with a rising Han Chinese population, Uygurs socialize at their own nightclubs.

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Botswana

A leopard’s spotted coat provides camouflage in the dense forest of Botswana’s Okavango Delta.

A woman in Florence, Italy, savors the message on a large greeting card.

Women—mostly widows—train for police force jobs at a firing range near Kabul.

Moviegoers thrill to shaking seats and wind machines during a 3-D film at a theater closed during the war in Baghdad, Iraq, in 2010.

After working himself into a trance, a man leaps through a flaming pyre as part of a ritual in northwest Venezuela.

To guide their decision-making, the Kyrgyz often seek out shamans to read their fortune with cards.

"Women of Vision," a new book from National Geographic features the work of female photojournalists.