Translated Woman
Title | Translated Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Behar |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Total Pages | 404 |
Release | 2014-10-28 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0807070467 |
Translated Woman tells the story of an unforgettable encounter between Ruth Behar, a Cuban-American feminist anthropologist, and Esperanza Hernández, a Mexican street peddler. The tale of Esperanza's extraordinary life yields unexpected and profound reflections on the mutual desires that bind together anthropologists and their "subjects."
Translated Woman
Title | Translated Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Behar |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Total Pages | 404 |
Release | 2003-05-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780807046470 |
Translated Woman tells the story of an unforgettable encounter between Ruth Behar, a Cuban-American feminist anthropologist, and Esperanza Hernández, a Mexican street peddler. The tale of Esperanza's extraordinary life yields unexpected and profound reflections on the mutual desires that bind together anthropologists and their "subjects."
Translated Woman
Title | Translated Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Behar |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2003-05-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0807046477 |
Translated Woman tells the story of an unforgettable encounter between Ruth Behar, a Cuban-American feminist anthropologist, and Esperanza Hernández, a Mexican street peddler. The tale of Esperanza's extraordinary life yields unexpected and profound reflections on the mutual desires that bind together anthropologists and their "subjects."
The Movement
Title | The Movement PDF eBook |
Author | PETRA. HULOVA |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2021-10-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781912987245 |
The Movement's founding ideology emphasises women should be valued for their inner qualities, spirit, and character, not for their physical attributes.Some men continue with unreformed attitudes but many submit - or are sent by their wives and daughters - to the Institute for internment and reeducation. Our narrator, an unapologetic guard at one of these reeducation facilities, describes how the Movement started, the challenges faced, her own personal journey, and what happens when a program fails. Outspoken, ambiguous, and terrifying, this socio-critical satire of our sexual norms sets the reader firmly outside of their comfort zone.
The Barefoot Woman
Title | The Barefoot Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Scholastique Mukasonga |
Publisher | Archipelago |
Total Pages | 152 |
Release | 2018-12-18 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1939810051 |
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE A moving, unforgettable tribute to a Tutsi woman who did everything to protect her children from the Rwandan genocide, by the daughter who refuses to let her family's story be forgotten. The story of the author's mother, a fierce, loving woman who for years protected her family from the violence encroaching upon them in pre-genocide Rwanda. Recording her memories of their life together in spare, wrenching prose, Mukasonga preserves her mother's voice in a haunting work of art.
The Fury and Cries of Women
Title | The Fury and Cries of Women PDF eBook |
Author | Angèle Rawiri |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | 246 |
Release | 2014-07-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0813936047 |
Gabon’s first female novelist, Angèle Rawiri probed deeper into the issues that writers a generation before her—Mariama Bâ and Aminata Sow Fall—had begun to address. Translated by Sara Hanaburgh, this third novel of the three Rawiri published is considered the richest of her fictional prose. It offers a gripping account of a modern woman, Emilienne, who questions traditional values and seeks emancipation from them. Emilienne’s active search for feminism on her own terms is tangled up with cultural expectations and taboos of motherhood, marriage, polygamy, divorce, and passion. She completes her university studies in Paris; marries a man from another ethnic group; becomes a leader in women’s liberation; enjoys professional success, even earning more than her husband; and eventually takes a female lover. Yet still she remains unsatisfied. Those closest to her, and even she herself, constantly question her role as woman, wife, mother, and lover. The tragic death of her only child—her daughter Rékia—accentuates Emilienne’s anguish, all the more so because of her subsequent barrenness and the pressure that she concede to her husband’s taking a second wife. In her forceful portrayal of one woman’s life in Central Africa in the late 1980s, Rawiri prompts us not only to reconsider our notions of African feminism and the canon of francophone African women’s writing but also to expand our awareness of the issues women face across the world today in the workforce, in the bedroom, and among family and peers.
Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction
Title | Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Noriko Mizuta Lippit |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 310 |
Release | 2015-03-04 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317466942 |
This collection includes translated works by Japanese women writers that deal with the experiences of modern women. The work of these women represents current feminist perception, imagination and thought. "Here are Japanese women in infinite and fascinating variety -- ardent lovers, lonely single women, political activists, betrayed wives, loyal wives, protective mothers, embittered mothers, devoted daughters. ... a new sense of the richness of Japanese women's experience, a new appreciation for feelings too long submerged". -- The New York Times Book Review