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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...
83) Ann Veronica
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Ann Veronica is a New Woman novel by H.G. Wells. Ann Veronica describes the rebellion of Ann Veronica Stanley, "a young lady of nearly two-and-twenty," against her middle-class father's stern patriarchal rule. The novel dramatizes the contemporary problem of the New Woman. It is set in Victorian era London and environs, except for an Alpine excursion. Ann Veronica offers vignettes of the Women's suffrage movement in Great Britain and features a chapter...
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As the sun dipped below the horizon, casting its golden hues upon the tranquil beach of West Hampton Dunes, a figure emerged from the gentle surf. It was Charlotte Penrith, her blond locks shimmering in the fading light, cascading down her slender shoulders. Her lithe form, kissed by the summer sun, moved with a grace that mirrored the ebb and flow of the ocean waves.Dressed in a provocative red swimsuit, the fabric clung to her like a second skin,...
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When popular daytime TV host and uber-feminist Erica Flanagan skewers a young "trad wife" influencer on live TV, she soon finds herself on a forced sabbatical, searching for a project to keep her busy. Without a single domestic bone in her body, Erica embarks on a blogging project determined to prove that domesticity is a con. But her domestic adventure turns into a quagmire of personal discovery -and what she discovers is herself. Erica Flanagan,...
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The narrator of Out of the Sugar Factory, Dorothee Elmiger, is a writer and archivist—and possibly a hoarder—of objects and stories that speak to the profound impact of the sugar industry on the world. Seated in the room where her immense collection sprawls across the floor, she obsessively connects a violent global industry to our unsettled present. In this innovative and meticulously researched novel, subjects as varied as the institutionalization...
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At thirty-eight years old, Ruthie finds herself newly unemployed, freshly single, sleeping on a friend's couch and downing a bottle of wine each night. Having overstayed her welcome and desperate for a job, Ruthie responds to David's ad: he's looking for someone to drive his aging mother, Kay, and her belongings from PEI to Vancouver. Ruthie thinks it's the perfect chance for a brief escape and a much-needed boost for her empty bank account.
But once...
88) Control Freak
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Jordan's life is totally in control:Crushing it as an ER doc-they don't call her The Ice Queen for nothingAvoiding devil-spawn sister's wedding-RSVP'd HELL NOFantasizing about dreamy nurse Eli-a secret she will take to her graveEverything is in order…except for that big lie she just told her sister. Now Jordan needs a fake boyfriend to be her plus-one for a family gathering, and she puts all options on the table-a bachelor auction, a male escort,...
89) 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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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...
91) 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,...
92) 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...
93) 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...
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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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The tumultuous twentieth century, told through the life of a single extraordinary woman
Rejected by a series of publishers, abandoned in a chest for twenty years, Goliarda Sapienza's masterpiece, The Art of Joy, survived a turbulent path to publication. It wasn't until 2005, when it was released in France, that this novel received the recognition it deserves. At last, Sapienza's remarkable book is available in English, in a brilliant translation...
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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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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
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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....
99) 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...
100) 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...
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