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Mujeres y sexo, mujeres y amistad, mujeres y sufrimiento: las tres obras recogidas en este volumen exploran el universo femenino en sus facetas más oscuras y misteriosas.
El cuerpo femenino rechaza convertirse en mercancía en el diálogo entre Manila y su cliente que da título al libro: una conversación punzante e irónica en la que la mujer utiliza la única arma que tiene a disposición, la palabra, para poner al desnudo las mentiras del hombre,...
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First published in 1873, "Work: A Story of Experience" is a semi-autobiographical novel written by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888). Alcott was an American short story writer, novelist, and poet most famous for writing the novel "Little Women", as well as its sequels "Little Men" and "Jo's Boys". She grew up in New England and became associated with numerous notable intellectuals of her time, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo...
24) The Crux
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When a group of New England women move to the western frontier, they encounter a new set of problems testing their love, friendship and spirits. In The Crux, Gilman highlights women's need for economic independence and sexual autonomy. The strain of New England life pushes a group of progressive women to move to Colorado. Together, they open a boarding house and create a bustling business that supports both men and women. When one of the ladies fall...
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A timeless story of a woman's quest to find fulfilment and create change, based on the remarkable life of pioneering feminist and abolitionist Lucy Stone.
Born on a farm in 1818, Lucy Stone dreamt of extraordinary things for a girl of her time, whether it was staying in school beyond the eighth grade or working for the abolitionist cause. She dreamed of ordinary things, too, such as falling in love and raising a family of her own. But when she learns...
26) Lacuna: A Novel
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2022
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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...
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...
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An electrifying tale of psychological suspense and revenge at an elite boarding school, where secrets run deep.
Now I'm in charge, the gates are my gates. The rules are my rules.
It's an incendiary moment for St Oswald's school. For the first time in its history, a headmistress is in power, the gates opening to girls.
Rebecca Buckfast has spilled blood to reach this position. Barely forty, she is just starting to reap the harvest of her ambition....
28) Lolly Willowes
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In her acclaimed debut novel, the twentieth-century English writer "moves with somber confidence into the realm of the supernatural, and her prose, in its simple, abrupt evocations, has something preternatural about it. This is the witty, eerie, tender but firm life history of a middle-class Englishwoman who politely declines to make the expected connection with the opposite sex and becomes a witch instead" (John Updike).
When Laura Willowes's beloved...
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Priscilla, una mujer que busca redimirse a través de la venganza, se vale de sus dones seductivos para condenar la brutalidad de la que ha sido víctima. Acompañada con las voces salvajes de su interior, se encuentra aprisionada en una relación que la sumerge en lo más hondo de su perversidad, decidida a reivindicar el derecho propio sobre su placer carnal y su rol social.
De rasgos violentos, donde la frontera entre lo real e imaginario cambia...
30) Vida
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Originally published in 1979, Vida is Marge Piercy's classic bookend to the 60s. Vida is full of the pleasures and pains, the experiments, disasters, and victories of an extraordinary band of people. At the center of the novel stands Vida Asch. She has lived underground for almost a decade. Back in the 60s, she was a political star of the exuberant antiwar movement, a red-haired beauty photographed for the pages of Life magazine-charismatic, passionate,...
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A radical activist, Luba Gold, makes the difficult decision to go underground to support the Puerto Rican independence movement. When Luba's collective is targeted by an FBI sting, she escapes with her baby but leaves behind a sensitive envelope that is being safeguarded by a friend. When the FBI come looking for Luba, the friend must decide whether to cooperate in the search for the woman she loves. Ten years later, when Luba emerges from clandestinely,...
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An ebullient novel about family secrets and the triumph of sisterly love
Driven by a legacy of lies, the shame of their own imperfections, and impending chaos in each of their well-ordered married lives, the three Wasserman daughters struggle with themselves and one another to break their parents' silence and understand their past.
Shoshanna, control freak and world-class problem solver, stands on the brink of a Big Birthday in the shadow of the...
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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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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,...
35) 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.
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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...
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Esther Gottesfeld is the last living survivor of the notorious 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire and has told her story countless times in the span of her lifetime. Even so, her death at the age of 106 leaves unanswered many questions about what happened that fateful day. How did she manage to survive the fire when at least 146 workers, most of them women, her sister and fiancé among them, burned or jumped to their deaths from the sweatshop inferno?...
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"And who among us would deny Jane Austen her happy endings or insist that Cary Grant and Irene Dunne should get back together at the end of The Awful Truth? There are tragedies and there are comedies, aren't there? And they are often more the same than different, rather like men and women, if you ask me. A comedy depends on stopping the story at exactly the right moment."
Mia Fredrickson, the wry, vituperative, tragic comic, poet narrator of The Summer...
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There are nine chapters in the book, seven written in Spanish, one in English, one translated from Spanish. All of them previously published in very prestigious literary Review-Journnals of Latin America and Spain. This compilation represents the work of a scholar dedicated to the inquiry of feminism in the Modern and Contemporary Spanish poetry written by women and men in Modernism and Postmodernism. It is a scholarly book that traces how very recurrent...
40) 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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