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Me encuentro y me pierdo en los cuentos de Viridiana; al leerlos siento que ella nos presta, a nosotras mujeres, su potente voz. Una voz capaz de decir con humor lo que importa, de contarnos del vacío, de la soledad... la misma voz que nos relata la cartografía de un desamor mientras uno de sus personajes hace la relación de los objetos que olvidó en una casa que ya no es la suya. Viridiana nos presta su voz para hablarle a quien escuche de nuestros...
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At the age of 80, Marion has seen the world change.
It is 2070. Climate change and soaring oil prices have taken their toll. Some countries have adjusted and prospered, while others have sunk into poverty and internal warfare.
Marion has seen Australia change from a free democracy to a repressive society ruled by an autocratic Muslim despot.
She has watched how women have disappeared from the workplace and discovered what can befall women, who no...
83) Maria
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Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman (1798) is a novel by English writer, philosopher, and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Intended as a fictional sequel to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), a groundbreaking work of feminism and political philosophy, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman was published posthumously by Wollstonecraft's husband, anarchist philosopher and writer William Godwin.
Denied her autonomy, Maria is sent to an insane asylum by her...
84) Glory box
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Se puede estar atrapado entre cuatro paredes, así como estas pueden dar la libertad necesaria para poner en perspectiva el pasado, y los años venideros.
Se puede estar enjaulado en la inmensidad rígida de una ciudad como Nueva York o Madrid, y en todos los años que conforman una historia.
Uno puede sentir que es preso de infinitas maneras y, sin embargo, solo dos cosas nos liberan: la verdad y el amor.
En Glory Box (caja de gloria) Patricia Valley...
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Domesticity gets a bad rap. We associate it with stasis, bourgeois accumulation, banality, and conservative family values. Yet in Extreme Domesticity, Susan Fraiman reminds us that keeping house is just as likely to involve dislocation, economic insecurity, creative improvisation, and queered notions of family. Her book links terms often seen as antithetical: domestic knowledge coinciding with female masculinity, feminism, and divorce; domestic routines...
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Two brilliant women artists fought for recognition and a place at the table in the competitive art world of pre-Revolutionary Paris. They both had royal patrons. They both were elected to the prestigious Académie Royale. But only one was Marie Antoinette's official portraitist: the popular, prodigiously talented Vigée Le Brun. Did she lead a charmed life compared to her rival? Or did she have to battle her own demons to achieve her destiny?Find...
87) Sisterly Deceit
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It's 1920 and Phoebe is pregnant but being a single parent isn't an option. Meanwhile her elder sister, Evie, is desperate for the kind of independence that only a man can have. So the sisters pretend to live as husband and wife - giving Evie her much wanted independence and allowing Phoebe to become a mother. However Phoebe and Evie have never been particularly close. How long can such a sisterly deception last?
88) The ReGender App
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What if there was an app that could, cloak you in a cross-gendered hologram? And, it had a voice modulation module? Women could present as men and get better-paying jobs. Men could present as women and get, groped in the subway. Cool.
The ReGender App is a humorous expose of the sexism in our society.
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Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796) is a novel by English writer and feminist Mary Hays. Inspired by events from her own life, as well as by her acquaintance with radical political philosophers William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, Hays's novel received mixed reviews and was controversial for its representation of female sexuality, adultery, infanticide, and suicide. Modern critics and readers, however, have recognized the novel as a groundbreaking...
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After the passing of Tionna's mother she was left to figure out how to navigate through this world on her own without the advice of her dear beloved mother. After such loss and getting away from her dead-beat husband Tionna took the streets of Baltimore. Little did Tionna know! Her world was getting ready to be turned upside down. The next chapter of her life would soon send her down a road of heavy drinking and partying, meaningless love relationships,...
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Baltasar contra el olvido narra la historia de una voluntad contra aquello que se extingue. La novela acarrea, de manera implícita, una pregunta acerca del acto de narrar: ¿se puede contar la densidad de un acontecimiento sin una inflexión que verbalice la experiencia vivida? Así como el título anuncia una lucha contra el olvido, que todo lo arrasa, de ese modo la novela propone otro interrogante: ¿qué recordamos no solo de un hecho sino, sobre...
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In the middle of 1974, Flora is privileged and middle-aged in a liberation-hued America and feels both compelled by and left out of the women's movement. She finds it difficult to activate her limited supply of empathy as she contends with a clandestine and unlikely friendship, a worrisome health scare, a domineering and philandering psychiatrist husband, or her own distant daughter.
Flora's secret foray into psychotherapy does nothing to halt the...
93) Carrusel
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Una escritora que atraviesa un tiempo convulso a nivel personal, y también un bloqueo creativo, emprende un viaje de búsqueda por sus recuerdos familiares y, en especial, por aquellos que comparte con su tío Carlos, que padece la misma enfermedad mental que ella. Esta reconstrucción de su vida la ayudará a descifrarse a nivel íntimo y literario y a enfrentarse a su experiencia con la maternidad y con la pérdida de sus seres queridos.
94) I (Athena)
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When Athena was a young girl in the 60s, she lost her hearing to a childhood fever but was misdiagnosed as "profoundly retarded" and institutionalized for thirty years. Now she's out of the institution, awkward and bookish, and learning to integrate with mainstream society where nothing works quite like she thinks it should. Athena researches her past, trying to understand why she was institutionalized in the first place and why the people looking...
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You are in the wrong life, with the wrong man. This is a trap. Escape. You are in the right life, with the right man. This is a trap. Escape. In the surreal, macabre performances of femininity that haunt Suzanne Burns' third collection, nobody emerges innocent or unscathed. Tasha lives in a community that is mysteriously obsessed with a high-stakes bake-off. Junie constantly tries to impress a cabal of unsettlingly toxic ladies who don't respect her-until...
96) Agatha's Odyssey
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How about stepping into a world of chaos and oppression? In Agatha's Odyssey, a brave woman's journey takes center stage - as she goes from a difficult childhood to a promising love story, until reality reshapes her path. This book boldly delves into the life of Agatha who struggles to mend her wounded inner child, and sheds light on the silenced voices of oppressed women. With every turn of the page, suspense arises as Agatha's love story with Ivan...
97) Humanas
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Los hombres comenzaron a morir.
Hace decenios, un súbito evento desencadenó una catástrofe demográfica en la que pereció la mitad de la población mundial: desaparecieron todas las personas con cromosoma Y.
A consecuencia de aquello, las supervivientes y sus descendientes han heredado la Tierra y la han transformado. Muy lejos y olvidados han quedado los efectos medioambientales del anterior sistema económico, así como las injusticias y las...
98) Ryder
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This modernist, experimental, and controversial novel examines gender politics in the lives of an American family.
Lesbian poet, journalist, and illustrator Djuna Barnes's debut novel was a sensation when it was originally published in 1928. A bawdy parody of patriarchal repression, the book was heavily censored upon its release in America. An exploration of sexuality that is thought to be based on Barnes's own life, the novel depicts a family...
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What do you do when you fall in love with your next-door neighbour? You peer at each other through a hole in the fence and eventually climb over.Sybil is a member of The Good-Hearted Gardeners, a Society for Well-Meaning Efforts for the Betterment of Language and the Salvation of the Planet, which her lover, Demo, is allowed to join. It' s funded by MI5, who ask them to monetise and weaponise the English language. Soon afterwards they discover that...
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Laila Russell is an ordinary 15-year-old schoolgirl living in London with her father, who is morose over his wife's accidental death. In the spring of 1972, Laila spots a lost pocketbook on the Underground and returns it to Amanda Charles, a fashionable young woman employed by an aging rock star. With glam music on the rise, Chaz Bonapart is going out of style. His manager, Francis Guy, comes up with a plan to get him back in the game by feeding him...
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