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Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Natalie Dormer, best known for her standout role as Queen Margaery in Game of Thrones, as well as her roles in The Hunger Games and Captain America: The First Avenger. A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College...

This is the story of an independent woman who is a model for our time—photographer Toby Molenaar. It begins in Holland during World War II, when her country is decimated by the occupying German army and she is literally left to starve. As a little girl, she learns to be self-sufficient—survival is the order of the day. Courage, indomitable spirit, an open mind, and accountability only to herself are the stuff of this fascinating and inspirational story.

Women have bravely served in the US Navy for nearly a century, but they have been allowed to serve in combat roles for only the last 25 years. When the combat exclusion law was lifted in 1993, women in the navy soon had a new range of opportunities available to them. The repeal of the law finally gave women the chance to serve on combatant ships for the first time. Among the first women to step onto these warships as a new crewmember was Joanna Sprtel Walters.

En esta serie de Chilango, la escritora Andrea Fuentes indaga sobre la maternidad para descubrir cómo el maternar se (de)construye a partir de situaciones cotidianas, reflexiones críticas e impulsos poéticos en su Matrix: antimanual de maternidad, tomando de los clásicos manuales de maternidad como punto de partida, para dar vida a uno nuevo desde múltiples facetas, alejándose de todo estereotipo o mandato.

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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book “Whom to marry, and when will it happen—these two questions define every woman’s existence.” So begins Spinster, a revelatory and slyly erudite look at the pleasures and possibilities of remaining single. Using her own experiences as a starting...

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay, originally delivered in 1928 as two lectures at two of Cambridge University's women's colleges—Newnham College and Girton College. Through the use of several metaphors, lauded author Virginia Woolf explores the social injustices and structures that prevent women from engaging in free expression and contributing to literature.

1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Her husband of 21 years is plotting against her because he feels increasingly threatened - by Elizabeth’s intellect, independence, and unwillingness to stifle her own thoughts. So Theophilus makes a plan to put his wife back in her place. One summer morning, he has her committed to an insane asylum.

This beautifully written memoir tells the story of their journey, which is also the story of Palestine, from the Nakba to the present—a seventy-five-year tale of conflict, exodus, occupation, return, and search for belonging, seen through the eyes of one writer and her family. Jiryis reveals how her father, Sabri, a PLO leader and advisor to Yasser Arafat, chose exile in 1970 because of his work.

Tema do episódio: Não maternidade: o direito de não ter...

Best-selling author and award-winning former BBC Chief News Correspondent Kate Adie reveals the ways in which women's lives changed during World War One and what the impact has been for women in its centenary year. In 1914 the world changed forever. When World War One broke out and a generation of men went off to fight, best-selling author and From Our Own Correspondent presenter Kate Adie shows how women emerged from the shadows of their domestic lives. Now a visible force in public life, they began to take up essential roles - from transport to policing, munitions to sport, entertainment, even politics.

Was erzählen uns Handabdrücke auf frühen Höhlenmalereien über die Rolle der Frau bei der Jagd? Und die parfümierten Handschuhe der Katharina von Medici über Prostitution im 16. Jahrhundert? Was hat ein Mobiltelefon mit Femiziden zu tun? Oder Kim Kardashians Brillantring mit Elena Ferrante? Eine Kulturgeschichte der Frau erzählt entlang an 100 Objekten, gelesen von berühmten weiblichen Stimmen unserer Zeit. 100 bemerkenswerte Frauen aus dem öffentlichen Leben haben die Texte eingelesen, darunter Schriftstellerinnen und Künstlerinnen, Unternehmerinnen und Politikerinnen, Wissenschaftlerinnen und Aktivistinnen.

"Mujeres que cuentan" es un diálogo, una conversación constructiva, una manera positiva de hablar sobre cómo poner nuestro granito de arena para cambiar el mundo. Este es un espacio no solo para que se escuchen nuestras voces, sino para escucharnos entre nosotras. "Mujeres que cuentan" se...

AnnaBlu, escort de profesión nos cuenta lo que el sexo servicio por elección significa para muchas mujeres que lo ven como una opción de ejercer su libertad y un vehículo de crecimiento personal. Sí, muchas de las cosas que escuches no son lo que se espera de una feminista pero sin duda es...

Mtra. Gloria Careaga Pérez, feminista, psicóloga, pionera de estudios de género en México, lesbiana y defensora de los Derecho de la Diversidad Sexual, para cerrar estas charlas, nos habla de la historia de la lucha de los derechos LGBTTIQA y el acompañamiento que este movimiento le ha dado...

Hellen "La Reinota", mujer joven militante de la lucha feminista, respetuosa de todas sus expresiones. Aunque los medios la retrataron como una extremista que regresa bombas de humo a la policía escucharla nos ayuda a darnos cuenta quiénes están realmente en esas manifestaciones y qué buscan...

"Mujeres que cuentan" es un diálogo, una conversación constructiva, una manera positiva de hablar sobre cómo poner nuestro granito de arena para cambiar el mundo. Este es un espacio no solo para que se escuchen nuestras voces, sino para escucharnos entre nosotras. "Mujeres que cuentan" se...

"Mujeres que cuentan" es un diálogo, una conversación constructiva, una manera positiva de hablar sobre cómo poner nuestro granito de arena para cambiar el mundo. Este es un espacio no solo para que se escuchen nuestras voces, sino para escucharnos entre nosotras. "Mujeres que cuentan" se...

"Mujeres que cuentan" es un diálogo, una conversación constructiva, una manera positiva de hablar sobre cómo poner nuestro granito de arena para cambiar el mundo. Este es un espacio no solo para que se escuchen nuestras voces, sino para escucharnos entre nosotras. "Mujeres que cuentan" se...

"Mujeres que cuentan" es un diálogo, una conversación constructiva, una manera positiva de hablar sobre cómo poner nuestro granito de arena para cambiar el mundo. Este es un espacio no solo para que se escuchen nuestras voces, sino para escucharnos entre nosotras. "Mujeres que cuentan" se...