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Considered an early feminist classic, Sylvia Townsend Warner's Lolly Willowes; Or The Loving Huntsman is a fantastical comedy about a middle-aged witch and her search for peace that was selected as the first ever Book of the Month upon publication in 1926.
"When her father died, Laura Willowes went to live in London with her elder brother and his family…[she] was a gentle creature, and the little girls loved her; she would soon fit into her new...
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La sacerdotisa griega Casandra está harta, hasta los mismos ovarios, de que los troyanos no crean en sus profecías. En una aldea medieval de Gales, una niñita escucha a su mamá contarle el típico cuento del dragón y la virgen sacrificada, y ese es en verdad el principio de un cuento de brujas. En un campus universitario cualquiera, el fantasma de un predicador puritano insulta y acosa (con bastante ternura, todo sea dicho), a una joven madre...
23) Not yours, Truly
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Not yours, Truly is a collection of ten short stories that tell the story of ten different women. Each woman tells her story, whether it has a happy ending or not. She struggles to survive her circumstances and the demons that come with it and tells her tale through uncensored yet poignant prose. Not yours, Truly sends the reader into ten different battles, and recounts the tale of ten different women's struggle to survive.
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Seltsame Dinge geschahen im Dorf. Magenhäute wurden als Flaggen gehisst, Vorhäute um Arme gewickelt und die losen Frauen schlackerten mit ihren Kehlen im Wind. Die Großmutter und die Mutter hielten Wache über die Bräuche im Dorf. Sie führten Aufgaben aus, die bald auf eine junge Frau übertragen werden sollten. Was es zu bewachen gilt, bleibt verborgen. Die Protagonistin versucht, den Klauen dieser bizarren Dorfgemeinschaft durch die Flucht...
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A través de las protagonistas de cada historia de Las que somos, Rosalí León-Ciliotta nos muestra las diferentes aristas del ser mujer en un tiempo tan remoto como el Perú de la independencia, un país machista y misógino latinoamericano o un lugar tan lejano como el confín del mundo. Cada uno de los tres cuentos de este libro pone a sus protagonistas en lugares insólitos y situaciones límite de las cuales emergerán: Ventura hará lo que...
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Turn Key and Other Stories is a brilliant short story collection by renowned Virginia author Susan Pepper Robbins. Featuring some of her best short stories, the collection delivers powerful, gritty characters full of heart and spirit. Ranging from longer stories to one-page hitters, Robbins masters the pen and sprays ink economically.
27) Amina
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Novels in English by northern Nigerian writers are few, so the arrival of a new one is an exciting literary event. This dramatic story of the efforts of the heroine and her friends to bring about change in the social conditions of women in Nigeria addresses pressing political issues which rarely appear in fiction-the legal status of Muslim women, the limitations imposed on them by traditional and religious conventions, the restrictions on their economic...
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Written while she was still a teenager, My Brilliant Career catapulted young Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (writing as Miles Franklin) into worldwide fame. In fact, the sudden popularity of the book in Australia (and the perceived closeness of the plot to her own family history) caused Franklin to withdraw the book from publication until after her death.
The story centers on Sybylla Melvyn, a headstrong girl growing up in rural Australia...
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Rose has always dreamed about marrying a prince charming, but instead she married an evil stepmother. Rose was born as a Princess, but got exiled from royalty when she was a child. Marriage proposal from Prince Kit is a chance of returning to royal life, so she takes it. Unfortunately, what a 21st century Princess thinks of as a dream, turns out to be a nightmare. She desires a peaceful, calm family life, but the endless cycle of rigorous rules, strict...
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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,...
31) Una vieja cámara
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Después de sufrir durante años el maltrato de su marido ha tomado, por fin, la decisión: Mar huye de su hogar.
Es una mujer joven y preparada. Sin embargo, ha seguido el mismo patrón que su madre años atrás. Abandona su vida y coge un tren dirección a París. Será un viaje largo y de noche. Sabe que no podrá dormir. No le importa, necesita tiempo para pensar.
Durante el trayecto su mente volverá a la infancia. Recordará los años tan horribles...
32) Oneiron
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Siete mujeres se encuentran en un espacio indefinido segundos después de su muerte. El tiempo, tal como lo entendemos, ha dejado de existir, y todas las sensaciones corporales han desaparecido. Ninguna de las mujeres, de distintas edades, ocupaciones y nacionalidades, puede recordar lo que les sucedió, dónde están o cómo llegaron allí. No se conocen. A su vez, intentan recordar, reconstruir los fragmentos de sus vidas, sus identidades, sus amores...
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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...
34) The Girls
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From the best-selling author of Giant and So Big, a sweeping look at the lives of three generations of women on Chicago's South Side. Part of Belt's Revivals series and with a new introduction by Kathleen Rooney (Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk).First published in 1921, Edna Ferber's The Girls revolves around the "three Charlottes" of the Thrift family-Great-Aunt Charlotte, her niece Lottie, and Lottie's niece Charley. All single "old maids," as the...
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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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"Today's young women face a bewildering set of contradictions when it comes to beauty. They don't want to be Barbie dolls but, like generations of women before them, are told they must look like them. They're angry about the media's treatment of women but hungrily consume the very outlets that belittle them. They mock modern culture's absurd beauty ideal and make videos exposing Photoshopping tricks, but feel pressured to emulate the same images they...
37) Angel Island
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Five men survive a South Seas shipwreck and wash up on a seemingly deserted beach, only to discover that five beautiful, winged women inhabit the island. Dazzled and soon in love, the men will do anything to possess these flying women . . . but what they plan, and how the magical women respond, is tellingly-and predictably-human.
First published in 1914, and praised by Ursula K. LeGuin as "a real rediscovery-romantic, satiric, funny, fanciful,...
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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...
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The critically acclaimed author of The Glass Woman and The Metal Heart reimagines the shocking story of one of the most controversial contests in history, the Great Stork Derby, in which a wealthy millionaire's death spawns a furious competition for his inheritance.
Toronto, 1926. Knowing that he will die without an heir, childless millionaire Charles Millar leaves behind a controversial will: the recipient of his fortune will be decided in a contest...
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