Títulos en Mujeres

Firenze, 1938. Teresa ha diciassette anni quando, tra i banchi di scuola, si alza in piedi per contraddire un professore che difende le leggi razziali. In un'Italia che pretende silenzio, la sua voce è troppo libera per restare muta. Il prezzo è l'espulsione da tutti gli istituti del Regno. Ma Teresa non ha mai saputo piegarsi. Cresciuta accanto a un padre apertamente antifascista, in una famiglia già impegnata nella militanza, sceglie presto la lotta clandestina.

From Michelle Akers to Megan Rapinoe, bold and inspiring profiles of the pioneers, champions and future heroines of women's soccer around the world. Women's soccer has come a long way. The first organized games on record -- which took place three hundred years ago in the Scottish Highlands --...

The first joint biography of the women who have shaped - and shaken - the modern Royal Family. Diana. Camilla. Catherine. Meghan. Outsiders by birth, insiders by marriage. Four women united by their decision to enter the most famous family in the world, and by their place in the centre of its...

Meet the matriarchs of Filipino myth – defiant goddesses, powerful witches, terrifying shapeshifters – and their real-life counterparts, as Carla Montemayor journeys to discover her own ancestry and the stories of her people. When Carla Montemayor discovers that her great-great grandmother...

Sunday Times bestselling author Christopher Berry-Dee seeks to understand the motivation, the amoral urges and the merciless horror behind Dahmer's inhuman behaviour Sunday Times bestselling author Christopher Berry-Dee is the man who talks to serial killers. A world-renowned investigative...

Tauchen Sie ein in die Welt der nordischen Legenden und entdecken Sie das außergewöhnliche Leben von Lagertha, der legendären Schildmaid, deren Geschichte die Konventionen ihrer Zeit herausfordert. In "Lagertha" reisen Sie durch die Sagas und historischen Erzählungen, die die mutige Kriegerin zum Leben erwecken, die für ihre unvergleichliche Tapferkeit, strategische Gewandtheit und unbeugsamen Geist bekannt ist.

Elke Grunupp, Melissa Vassiliki, Elke Evremidis e apenas Elke, antes de ser conhecida como Elke Maravilha. Lembrada por muitos como uma personalidade televisiva, Elke foi atriz, modelo, cantora e poeta. Mas também foi presa política por seis dias quando peitou a ditadura, em 1971. Foi a...

¿Cómo contar la historia de uno mismo? Y, en ese ejercicio, ¿hasta qué punto se construye o se reconstruye la identidad? En este libro autobiográfico, Piedad Bonnett parte de sus vivencias para reflexionar sobre los factores que definen nuestra cotidianidad. Nos habla, con sensibilidad y lucidez, de aquello que determina la experiencia de las mujeres -la educación, el matrimonio, la maternidad, los tabúes asociados al cuerpo y la violencia de género- y también de la ansiedad, el miedo, la rebeldía, las ansias de libertad y las obsesiones que impulsan el proceso de la escritura.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE ONE OF THE BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE CENTURY* In this celebrated modern classic, a former teacher in revolutionary Iran tells the extraordinary true story of the women who risked their lives to study Western literature in...

In 1960, she was a 17-year-old Brooklyn kid with plenty of talent but no connections and certainly no money; her mother brought her soup to make sure she stayed fed as she took acting classes and scraped out a living. Just four years later, Barbra Streisand was the top-selling female recording artist in America and the star of one of Broadway’s biggest hits. Now the acclaimed Hollywood biographer William Mann chronicles that dizzying ascent, telling the riveting behind-the-scenes story of how Streisand and her team transformed her from an unknown dreamer into a worldwide superstar.

INCLUDES A FOREWORD WRITTEN AND READ BY GILMORE GIRLS CREATOR, AMY SHERMAN-PALLADINO! INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Goodreads Choice Awards Winner “Come for the Gilmore Girls anecdotes, stay for the revealing truths about what it takes to build a lifelong career in and out of...

En 1905, Margarete Böhme presentó al público una arriesgada y verosímil historia. Mediante el reflejo exacto del diario hallado de una joven, del que Böhme se presentaba como «editora», se daba noticia de una adolescente burguesa que se ve forzada, por las artimañas de un entorno hipócrita, a un episodio de prostitución. Considerada como «la narración autobiográfica más notoria de principios del siglo xx y la más exitosa comercialmente», Diario de una perdida vendió millones de ejemplares y varias versiones en la gran pantalla.

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.

Universally acclaimed, rapturously reviewed, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography, and an instant New York Times bestseller, Chanel Miller's breathtaking memoir "gives readers the privilege of knowing her not just as Emily Doe, but as Chanel Miller the writer, the...

“Erica Garza has written a riveting, can’t-look-away memoir of a life lived hardcore…In an era when predatory male sexual behavior has finally become a topic of urgent national discourse…Getting Off makes for a wild, timely read” (Elle). A fixation on porn and orgasm, strings of failed...

"Les livres ont donc constitué très tôt le territoire de mon imaginaire, de ma projection dans des histoires et des mondes que je ne connaissais pas. Plus tard, j'y ai trouvé le mode d'emploi de la vie, un mode d'emploi auquel j'accordais beaucoup plus de confiance qu'au discours scolaire ou au discours de mes parents. J'étais encline à penser que la réalité et la vérité se trouvaient dans les livres, dans la littérature." Son enfance, sa mémoire, sont la matière même de ses livres.

When her mother was in the hospital with terminal cancer, Simone had time to reminisce about her mother's early life, as Simone and her sister, Poupette, prepared to face the decision of whether to prolong a life when it is full of suffering. Like most people,they believed it would be better to die than to continue to suffer, but their mother had a very different view of the matter. Françoise de Beauvoir had finally found happiness in her life, and she truly believed she could find happiness in her own suffering.

Escucha ahora uno de los libros fundamentales de Rosa Montero, Premio Nacional de las Letras 2017. Una obra pionera en la reivindicación del papel de la mujer en la historia a través de las biografías de sus protagonistas.

Cleopatra Thea Philopator se negó a hacer lo que le dijeron. En una época en la que el patriarcado negaba la ciudadanía plena incluso a las mujeres romanas más elitistas, Cleopatra gobernaba su Egipto decidida a mantenerlo independiente y libre del control romano, a cualquier precio que fuera necesario. Demonizada como una simple seductora por Cayo Julio César Octavio (el futuro César Augusto) y sus aliados políticos, Cleopatra VII demostró ser igual a tres de los hombres más poderosos del mundo romano: Cayo Julio César, Marco Antonio y Octavio César.

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...