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A stunning debut about a young Greek-American woman and the history she shares with her mother and grandmother.
Imam is a recipe known throughout villages in Greece, handed down from mother to daughter. If you come from these villages, your history is passed on through your body.
Its full name is imam baildi, and it means the priest fainted. Perhaps the priest was given a bit of bitter and sweet pleasure, and the power of everything behind the dish...
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This book focuses on girls and girlhoods, texts for and about girls, and the cultural contexts that shape girls' experience. It brings together scholars from girls' studies and children's literature, fields that have traditionally conducted their research separately, and the collaboration showcases the breadth and complexity of girl-related studies. Contributors from disciplines such as sociology, literature, education, and gender studies combine...
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Un guide du féminisme moderne pour les hommes.
Avez-vous déjà été victime de violences, de haine, de harcèlement, ou de souffrances du fait de votre genre?
Être féministe ou pratiquer le féminisme implique de se battre pour des problématiques importantes, comme la parité salariale, le respect, les congés de maternité, les droits liés à la procréation, la violence domestique, etc.
Si vous voulez en savoir plus sur la lutte pour vos...
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En Yo maté a Sherezade la autora muestra como, desde el nacimiento, el cuerpo de la mujer se ve atrapado en un contexto social que lleva a la mujer incluso a la esclavitud. Su voz canta en una reafirmación de la vida , un viaje perpetuo, un acto disruptivo para las mujeres árabes (y la mujer como tal) tengan acceso a algo más. La verdad de esta autora no puede ocultarse. Habla con libertad y "mata" a Sherezade para liberarse de lo que trae la...
85) Una vida
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Sobreviviente del horror de Auschwitz y del nazismo que destruyó a su familia, Simone Veil dedicó su vida a la lucha contra la discriminación y la intolerancia, y a favor de los derechos de la mujer y por la construcción de la unidad europea, para ella una garantía de la paz mundial.
Responsable en Francia de la despenalización del aborto (Ley Veil), en 1979 presidió el primer Parlamento Europeo surgido del voto universal directo y en 2010...
86) Viaje a Venus
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Este poemario relata, con firmeza y ternura, las injusticias, los miedos, la culpa y la valentía que vivimos día a día.
En tus manos, no solo estás sosteniendo una crítica al machismo y una alabanza al feminismo, también es un recopilatorio de contestaciones poéticas a las injustas afirmaciones y preguntas a las cuales nos vemos sometidas diariamente.
Un grito a la liberación con sabor a revolución.
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Avez-vous déjà été victime de violence, de harcèlement ou de discrimination à cause de votre sexe ? Avez-vous déjà été témoin de discrimination envers des femmes ?
En devenant féministe, vous lutterez pour des choses qui comptent réellement, telles que l'égalité des salaires, le respect, les congé maternité, le droit à la reproduction, contre la violence conjugale, etc.
Si vous voulez en savoir plus sur la lutte pour le droit des...
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Una lucha feroz contra la camisa de fuerza impuesta a las mujeres por el patriarcado y las religiones
Valiente, lúcida y sincera, Joumana Haddad aborda en El tercer sexo su obra más ambiciosa: un ensayo en el que apuesta por deconstruir la sociedad actual, asentada en valores y medidas artificiales como el dinero, la raza o el género, para reconstruirla a partir de aquello que es inherente al ser humano y que nos hace auténticos: nuestra humanidad....
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Historia de una desobediencia. Aborto y feminismo "escapa (por suerte) a las tipificaciones disciplinarias y por ende resiste una lectura convencional", como bien señala el prólogo de este libro. Es una rigurosa constelación de genealogías y cartografías de las luchas por el derecho al aborto en Argentina, desde los años setenta hasta la actualidad. Por lo que se torna un material de lectura obligada tanto para el activismo callejero como para...
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En "Memoria y escritura del cuerpo: un estudio sobre sexualidad, maternidad y dolor", María de Alva explora el papel del cuerpo femenino en la construcción de la memoria de personajes, tomando como ejemplo cuatro novelas del siglo XXI: "Historia del rey transparente" de Rosa Montero, "Un milagro en equilibrio" de Lucía Extebarria, "En breve cárcel" de Sylvia Molloy y "Diario del dolor" de María Luisa Puga. A la vez, la autora construye su reflexión...
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Ensayos que exploran la influencia de la obra de Simone de Beauvoir en los estudios de género y el desarrollo del feminismo en el mundo y su repercusión en Perú.
Simone de Beauvoir fue escritora, filósofa y feminista francesa, nacida en París en 1908. Ella constituye un hito en la historia de las mujeres, pues trabajó para comprender y luchar en contra de la enorme desigualdad que sufrían las mujeres de su época, a la que nadie le prestaba...
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En una sociedad democrática y avanzada como la nuestra, la discriminación por razón de sexo no debería existir. Sin embargo, la realidad a menudo es bien distinta. Mila Guerrero actualiza el mito de Casandra, la profeta troyana castigada por el dios Apolo a que ninguna de sus predicciones fuera creída, desvelando a través de anécdotas y situaciones los mecanismos mediante los cuales muchas mujeres ven desacreditadas sus opiniones y son tratadas...
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Although Sir Isaac Harman didn't think much of the suffragette movement, his female employees certainly did, and he thought it prescient that he too should do his bit for women's rights. His wife totally agreed, so he locked her up. However, this gesture was to have far-reaching reverberations as Sir Isaac's wife becomes the absolute embodiment of women's independence. "The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman" is a novel by H. G. Wells, first written in 1914....
94) On the Border
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Janie Mills hated her life. After her dad was killed by a gang shooting while on the job as a police officer in south Texas, her mom took to hard drugs to cope.Being on her own, and with an agenda, Janie joined the US Boarder Patrol to fight the crime that took her parents from her.Content with her choice, she is asked to join the K-9 division when it became clear she had trust issues with people.Would she be able to learn to trust and heal with the...
95) The Pink House
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Jen Johanssen is a former porn actor trying to fit into the world of academia. Her sister, Lolly Johanssen, is a cancer survivor. Nicole Parks is in prison for loving the wrong guy. And Sonya Yakowski, also in prison, is a member of a family of traveling criminals, desperately missing her young son. The lives of these four women converge in a Florida prison, where Jen and Lolly have joined forces to put on a grant-funded drama production. Despite...
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Fact-driven fiction.
Speculative. Provocative.
What could've been.
What should've been.
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Damages
Home for Unwed Fathers
Fighting Words
Comedown
What Sane Man
Sweet Sixteen
Ballsy
Justified
It's a Boy
Men Need Sex
How We Survived
The Knitting Group
The Mars Colonies
A PostTrans PostPandemic World
Unless
Alleviation
The Women's Party
My Last Year
97) Fran, Older
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Life Isn't What It Used to BeLet's have a look at Fran's life:Husband deceased (but his stern portrait on the wall is an adequate stand-in, in some ways). Kids grown and gone. Career a distant memory. Driver's license a thing of the past (just as well, after the stop sign incidents). Suburban home sold. Her current address is a cozy unit in an upscale seniors' residence she calls the Facility.Fran is elderly, but far from over the hill. Politely independent,...
98) Blood Red
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The exhilarating English-language debut from celebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Ponce, Blood Red centers the female body in a radical exploration of desire, choice, and consequences.
Description: In a torrent of stream-of-consciousness fragments, the unnamed narrator of Blood Red recounts the aftermath of her failed marriage in explicit, sensual detail. She falls in and out of love, parties with her friends, skates around the city at night, does...
99) Lacuna: A Novel
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The traumatized central character of J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace is provocatively reimagined in this "surprising, subtle, and deeply challenging" novel (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
Two years ago, Lucy Lurie was the victim of an act of sexual violence that devastated her life. Afterwards, she becomes obsessed with the author John Coetzee, whose acclaimed novel turned her brutal assault into a literary metaphor. Withdrawn and fearful of crowds,...
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Anno Domini 2000 Or, Woman's Destiny (1889) is a novel by Sir Julius Vogel. Written by the former prime minister of New Zealand, the novel sold poorly upon publication. In recent years, however, the novel has been recognized as a groundbreaking work of science fiction that uncannily predicted many of the social developments that would define New Zealand's contribution to human civilization in the twentieth century, notably its status as the first...
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