Títulos en Mujeres

Memoirs of a Medicine Woman is a raw and luminous journey into the wild heart of Life as our greatest teacher. Think Carlos Castaneda's Don Juan meets the Gospel of Mary Magdalene with a splash of ayahuasca and a sense of humor. Part travel adventure, part romance novella, and part spiritual toolkit, the book follows the author through her shamanic apprenticeship and practice across North and South America.

Maud Steiner, fille d'un père architecte Prix de Rome et d'une mère sculpteur, a grandi dans les années 60, à Saint-Germain-des-Prés dans la toute haute bourgeoisie et aristocratie française. Après le suicide de son frère Fabien, elle cherche durant quinze ans une explication à son geste et à sa propre incapacité de trouver le sommeil. Au cours d'un travail thérapeutique, des images surgissent et l'amnésie se dissipe.

In this powerful second edition, 18 accomplished women from Scottsdale share their personal journeys to earning six figures and beyond while expanding their influence, impact, and legacy. These are stories of bold decisions, resilience, reinvention, and building success on their own terms. Six-Figure Chicks is more than a book. It is a Global Movement. Each chapter blends honest storytelling with real-world wisdom, giving you both inspiration and practical strategies to elevate your career, business, and life with clarity, confidence, and courage.

В период Второй мировой войны юная Пиппа Латур в качестве британского секретного агента выполняла опасные поручения на территории оккупированной Франции, в частности перед высадкой союзников в Нормандии собирала информацию о расположении немецких военных частей. На закате своей долгой жизни она поделилась воспоминаниями об этой тяжелейшей работе, о событиях тех дней, о людях, помогавших ей. Захватывающий рассказ Пиппы Латур о специальной подготовке женщин-агентов, высадке во вражеском тылу, об арестах гестапо, о находчивости в критических ситуациях погружает в атмосферу военного времени.

In I Love Horses: My Forever Horses Josef and Ranger, Dr. Christine Charyton, Ph.D., shares her deeply personal journey of healing, hope, and unwavering love for her two horses. From childhood dreams to Olympic aspirations and a career in equine-assisted therapy, this heartfelt memoir celebrates the power of animals to transform lives. With faith, resilience, and a little horse magic, Christine’s story inspires anyone who believes in second chances and lifelong bonds.

Despite the enmity towards Carthage held by the Greeks and Romans, they nevertheless spent centuries romanticizing and mythologizing its legendary founder, Queen Dido. It’s an established fact that the Phoenicians established a maritime empire with Tyre at the forefront in the early 1st millennium BCE, and from that, the ancients believed that a Phoenician princess named Elisa fled Tyre to North Africa after her brother killed her husband, where she managed to negotiate with local leaders for land and secure the site of Carthage, becoming Queen Dido in the process.

A mulher mais importante do cangaço brasileiro, que inspirou gerações de mulheres, ganha agora sua biografia mais completa e com uma perspectiva feminista. Embora a mitificação da imagem de Maria Bonita tenha escondido situações de constante violência, ela em nada diminui o caráter transgressor da Rainha do Sertão. Desde os anos 1990, a data de nascimento de Maria Bonita passou a ser celebrada no Dia Internacional da Mulher. Com o tempo, ela transformou-se em uma marca poderosa, emprestando seu nome a centenas de pousadas e restaurantes espalhados pelo Nordeste...

As the nation came together to mourn, to support, and to rebuild in the aftermath of 9/11, Virginia Buckingham was singled out for blame. As the head of Boston’s Logan International Airport, the launching pad for the hijacked planes that destroyed the Twin Towers, she was scapegoated by the...

At 23, Theresa Kishkan met an artist who became obsessed with her. She was young, she was flattered, and the situation quickly overwhelmed her. He drew and painted her for a few months, after which she went away for a year. When she returned, she was determined not to resume the relationship. But the artist made contact with her after the birth of her first child and became a family friend, bringing gifts of paintings.

Cosa è successo ad Anita Garibaldi, in fuga dagli Austriaci, che non ha lasciato viva le paludi di Comacchio? In questo saggio a metà tra una biografia e un reportage, le misteriose circostanze che hanno portato alla morte di Anita Garibaldi vengono affrontate come in un romanzo poliziesco dai toni noir, riprendendo sentenze, testimonianze e articoli di giornale risalenti all'epoca dell'accaduto. Un'indagine che cerca di far luce su una delle pagine oscure del Risorgimento Italiano.

On Sarah A. Chrisman's 29th birthday, her husband, Gabriel, presented her with a corset. The material and the design were breathtakingly beautiful, but her mind immediately filled with unwelcome views. Although she had been in love with the Victorian era all her life, she had specifically asked her husband not to buy her a corset - ever. She'd heard how corsets affected the female body and what they represented, and she wanted none of it.

Cecilia Toussaint le da voz a Frida Kahlo. Ocho días antes de morir, Frida Kahlo cogió sus pinceles por última vez y escribió sobre la pulpa roja de la sandía: «Viva la vida. Coyoacán, 1954». Pocos meses antes, le habían amputado la pierna derecha y notaba, ahora sí, cómo sus...

Un lugar seguro es un conjunto de ensayos en clave autobiográfica que, partiendo de sucesos y situaciones cotidianas, trasciende la experiencia propia de la autora para hablarnos de la amistad, la literatura, el significado de ser mujer en México o las relaciones personales y familiares. Y, en todos ellos, subyace un tema común: la necesidad de encontrar un espacio, real y metafórico, en el que sentirse segura. Una obra que es toda una declaración de principios, tanto como una forma de mirar y estar en el mundo.

Mujeres intrépidas y aventureras han existido desde los tiempos más remotos, aunque la inmensa mayoría han sido silenciadas y olvidadas por una historia escrita por los hombres. Cuando miramos hacia atrás resulta difícil encontrar testimonios de mujeres viajeras anteriores a los siglos XVII y XIX, época de las grandes expediciones. Pero ¿cuándo empezaron a viajar las mujeres? ¿Cómo y por qué viajaban?

Para Carmen, 2012 es un punto de inflexión. Tiene setenta y cinco años. La salud le empieza a fallar, los temblores repentinos aumentan y en una cena con amigos ocurre lo peor… Para más inri, sus problemas se multiplican cuando se sienta en el banquillo acusada de proxenetismo. Poco antes...

In this “darkly humorous” (Harper’s Bazaar) memoir-in-essays, actress and singer-songwriter Lola Kirke untangles an extraordinary upbringing in a family of eccentric, messy artists and explains how a big city girl went a little bit country. “Lola is a wise, witty, and unsparing writer...

Florence Nightingale, pionera en la práctica de la enfermería y madre de esta disciplina médica es acaso una de las figuras femeninas más recordadas del siglo XX. Metódica, analítica, obstinada, rebelde contra los prejuicios de su época hacia su género y la profesión que escogió, su férrea determinación la llevó a reestructurar y mejorar las condiciones de salud tanto en el frente de batalla como en los hospitales de ambos lados del Atlántico. Su innegable contribución a la humanidad.

La biografía de una mujer excepcional. Desaparecida trágicamente tras un vuelo sobre el Océano Pacífico, el 2 de julio de 1937, fue una aviadora estadounidense, célebre por sus marcas de vuelo y por intentar el primer viaje aéreo alrededor del mundo sobre la línea ecuatorial.

The feminist writer and activist Betty Friedan (1921-2006), pathbreaking author of The Feminine Mystique, was powerful and polarizing. In this biography, the first in more than twenty years, Rachel Shteir draws on Friedan's papers and on interviews with family, colleagues, and friends to create a nuanced portrait.

O primeiro lançamento dos diários de Carolina Maria de Jesus registra os meses em que a escritora morou em Osasco (SP), em 1960. Edição ampliada e integral, com conteúdo inédito e introdução de Conceição Evaristo e Vera Eunice de Jesus. Com narração de Zezé Motta. Com edição integral, ampliada com conteúdo inédito e refeita a partir dos manuscritos originais da autora, este primeiro volume de Casa de alvenaria abarca os meses em que Carolina Maria de Jesus morou em Osasco (SP), em 1960, após deixar a favela do Canindé.