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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 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...
84) 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.
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...
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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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"An unflinching allegorical novel that explores trauma, women's rights, and religious tradition. In the slums of Tehran, seven-year-old Sara witnesses the horrific murder of her sister Setayesh, an event leaves her in shock and unable to speak. As the neighbourhood frantically searches for the missing girl, Sara is locked inside herself, unable to tell her parents or police all she knows. Over time, the mute Sara develops a strange allergic reaction,...
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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....
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Mizora (1890) is a novel by Mary E. Bradley Lane. Originally serialized between 1880 and 1881 in the Cincinnati Commercial, the novel was rediscovered a decade later and printed by prominent editor Murat Halstead. While little is known about Lane, she seems to have been a dedicated feminist and a gifted writer who nevertheless, by the time Halstead reached out to republish her work, seemed to want nothing to do with the appearance of Mizora in novel...
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As Elisabeth tests the waters in a clandestine dalliance, her reputation as an artist and a saloniste grows. But tragedy strikes close to home, and the queen suffers not just calumnies, but terrible losses. Elisabeth's loyalty is unwavering in the face of growing popular animosity to Marie Antoinette, as is her belief that life will continue as it is. When she is betrayed by someone she thought was her friend, the boundaries of her privileged world...
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"Will appeal to readers of Elena Ferrante and Margaret Atwood . . . the unusual setting offers an interesting twist on the portrait of an artist as a young woman." -Bookpage
In 1960s Iceland, Hekla dreams of being a writer. In a nation of poets, where each household proudly displays leatherbound volumes of the Sagas, and there are more writers per capita than anywhere else in the world, there is only one problem: she is a woman.
After packing...
92) Tender
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The third and final installment of Ariana Harwicz's "Involuntary Trilogy" finds us on familiar, disquieting ground. Under the spell of a mother's madness, the French countryside transforms into a dreamscape of interconnected imagery: animals, desire, the functions of the body. Most troublingly: the comfort of a teenage son. Scorning the bourgeois mores and conventionality of their small town, she withdraws him from school and the two embark on ever...
93) Work
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After the death of her parents, Christie Devon declares her autonomy and desire to pioneer a new option for women-working. As a single woman, Christie wants to maintain her independence and work outside the home. She begins her journey discouraged to find that as a woman, her upbringing has failed her in that she was not taught a trade, as men often were, but rather the duties of a housewife. Christie first works as a maid, knowing there was no shame...
94) Jess
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Jess used to be a man. Then he found himself in a female body. It wasn't funny. (Why would anyone even think it was?)
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"There's a scene in Tootsie (1982) that is surely one of the most unacclaimed scenes of all time: Dustin Hoffman's character, Michael, as 'Dorothy', makes a suggestion on the set, and the director dismisses it out of hand. As I remember it, Hoffman's face-conveying surprise, confusion, indignation-shows perfectly Michael's...
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What if the key to your wholeness lay in your wounding?
2011: Sarah Baum is a white humanitarian nurse who's worked in conflict zones for years. When recurrent nightmares of being a scared Black girl hiding in the forest cause her to make a near-fatal mistake, she's faced with her biggest challenge yet: how to heal from her past. And who is the girl in her dreams?
1914: Fourteen-year-old Maggie Burke flees the land where her family works as sharecroppers...
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FRANCE, ENGLAND, 1793.War has been declared between the revolutonary authorities in France and Great Britain. Rebecca's clandestine trips on behalf of the British Admiralty become ever more hazardous. Revolution threatens. London simmers with unease as events in France unleash turmoil in Europe. And Rebecca Somerville, reluctant heiress of a bankrupt estate, is drawn ever deeper into a clandestine world.Her freedom - even her life - are in danger....
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A nineteenth century mystic marriage counselor and her guardian angel battle the Inquisitor of Smut in this biographical historical novel based on a true story.
She will not be silenced! Brilliant, corseted, and haunted by spirits from the Borderlands, a young girl turns her back on the constrictions of Victorian society and strikes out on her own, becoming a mystic marriage counselor. Sharing what she views as essential sexual knowledge puts her...
98) Fight Night
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Life is hard in the prison camp. There's back breaking work every day, and never enough food. But the inmates have formed a community of their own and they support each other as much as they can, even as the Commander does his best to break them down. Still, the work continues, even as the Commander's daughter has to be fitted for her prom dress. Even as a singing competition is offered as diversion for the Commander and his wife. Even as Even as...
99) The Movement
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In this utopia, the feminist Movement has been successful and women rule the world. Men are trained at reeducation facilities to accept the new normal in this futuristic satire challenging our sexual norms.
The Movement's founding ideology emphasizes that women should be valued for their inner qualities, spirit, and character, and not for their physical attributes. Men have been forbidden to be attracted to women on the basis of their bodies. Some...
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How do you learn to trust yourself and hear your own truth?
Based on a true story, Wild Egg explores one woman's struggle to break the deadlock of ambivalence to decide whether becoming a biological mother is her wholehearted choice, or simply what she has been programmed to believe. When her usual rational approach to problem solving fails, Hollie Hardwick finds herself tumbling down an existential rabbit hole, unearthing more questions than...
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