Showing results for "fiction" in Women's Studies

A woman and her husband rent a summer house, but what should be a restful getaway turns into a suffocating psychological battle. This chilling account of postpartum depression and a husband's controlling behaviour in the guise of treatment will leave you breathless.

À l'âge de vingt ans, Liz, Guillaume, Adel et Samia se sont battus pour leurs rêves. À l'aube de la trentaine, ils ont lutté pour les préserver. La parentalité n'est pas un long fleuve tranquille, la vie à deux non plus. Loin des idéaux promis, il arrive que l'on doive naviguer vers des terres inconnues.

Lark Rise is Flora Thompson's childhood memories of a north Oxfordshire village, the people who lived and worked in it, and a way of life that has totally disappeared. The story is built around Laura and her brother Edmund, through whose eyes are seen 'old Sally', whose grandfather built the house she lived in before the enclosure of the heathland, children's games, the interaction of village and gentry, and the way in which the seasons governed life.

Fuir ou combattre ? La vie nous laisse-t-elle toujours le choix ? Sur les remparts d'Essaouira, Samia découvre un nouveau monde et les joies d'une vie de famille ordinaire. Son bonheur sera hélas de courte durée. Ses origines et son passé la rattrapent violemment et frappent de plein fouet ses espoirs d'une vie meilleure. Elle ne sera heureusement pas seule pour affronter les épreuves qui l'attendent. Adel, son amoureux, fera tout pour la libérer de ses chaînes, et Liz, sa meilleure amie, se battra à ses côtés tout en affrontant ses propres démons.

Bloomsbury presents Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi, read by Amira Ghazalla. 'An unforgettable, unmissable book for the new global feminist.' The Times 'I think her life has been one long death threat. At a time when nobody else was talking, she spoke the unspeakable' – Margaret Atwood...

C'est le début de l'hiver. Dans quelques mois, cela fera deux ans déjà que Liz a eu l'accident qui a bouleversé à jamais son destin. L'occasion pour elle de faire le bilan de ses priorités, et de choisir son camp. Acceptera-t-elle le défi de la maternité ? Samia, de son côté, n'a pas vraiment le temps de se questionner. Prise dans le tourbillon de sa grossesse et de ses nouvelles responsabilités, elle avance, sans se douter du cataclysme qui l'attend. Quant à Guillaume et Audrey, la guerre qu'ils mènent ne pourra trouver aucune issue tant que la jeune femme restera prisonnière de ses démons.

Die richtigen Tipps für eine glückliche Beziehung - das neue Hörbuch, gelesen von Bestsellerautor und Comedy-King Mario Barth persönlich! Woran liegt es eigentlich, dass Frauen jeden Streit gewinnen? Wann ist Lügen in der Beziehung auch mal erlaubt? Und was sind die gefährlichsten Antworten auf die Frage: "Liebst du mich?" Männer können ein glückliches Leben führen, wenn sie sich an eine simple Formel halten: Happy Wife, Happy Life.

La lune de miel entre Liz et Guillaume aura été de courte durée. Bouleversé par sa paternité soudaine et refusant de se soumettre aux desiderata d'Audrey, le jeune médecin risque le tout pour le tout, quitte à mettre en jeu une fois de plus l'amour de sa vie. Prise dans la tourmente d'une guerre qu'elle refuse de mener, Liz tente de clarifier ses désirs sans se laisser influencer par une situation qui la dépasse. Sa vie de femme en dépend. Guillaume se bat comme un lion pour son fils, à l'instar de nombreux pères pris en otages de femmes que la souffrance aveugle.

This satirical novella, published in more than 200 editions, was the biggest seller in the United States prior to Uncle Tom's Cabin. A young English girl is lured to America by a dashing lieutenant. The tragic consequences that follow serve as warning to all innocent, unassuming young ladies.

A Room of One's Own è un saggio della celebre autrice inglese Virginia Woolf. Fu pubblicato nel 1929 e si è basato su due conferenze tenute a ai due college femminili di Newnham e Girton, dell'Università di Cambridge, nel 1928. Il saggio, scorrevole e brillante, ripercorre la storia della scrittura nelle donne, e la storia delle donne, e la storia della scrittura. Pertanto è rivolto, oltre che alle donne, anche a tutti coloro che vogliono scrivere.

The publication of The Woman's Bible in 1895 and 1898 represented the feminist pioneer's last strike at the roots of the ideology behind her gender's subordinate role in society. In keeping with her characteristic radical individualism, Stanton attacks religious orthodoxy on a political rather than scholarly basis.

Jane Addams's memoir of her experience running a settlement house on Chicago's West Side includes portraits of people in need and is a model for community service. Addams firmly believed that education and social activity were essential aspects of any program to turn lives around.

Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times best-selling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays read by all 30 contributors, including Gabrielle Union, Ally Sheedy and Lyz Lenz, tackles rape, assault and harassment head-on.

Brought to you by Penguin. Lolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly announces that she is leaving London and moving, alone, to the depths of the countryside, her overbearing relatives are horrified. But Lolly has a greater, far darker calling...

Kate Chopin's 1899 novella The Awakening is about the personal, sexual, and artistic awakening of a young wife and mother, Edna Pontellier. While on vacation at Grand Isle, an island in the Gulf of Mexico, Edna befriends the talented pianist Mlle. Reisz and the sympathetic Robert Lebrun, both of whom will influence her startling life choices.

The first full life—private, public, legal, philosophical—of the 107th Supreme Court Justice, one of the most profound and profoundly transformative legal minds of our time; a book fifteen years in work, written with the cooperation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself and based on many interviews...

When Grace Metalious's debut novel about the dark underside of a small, respectable New England town was published in 1956, it quickly soared to the top of the bestseller lists. A landmark in twentieth-century American popular culture, Peyton Place spawned a successful feature film and a...

Um mergulho revelador nas histórias das mulheres da mitologia grega. Depois de devolver o protagonismo às mulheres da mitologia em O Jarro de Pandora, Natalie Haynes retorna ao mundo grego para revelar o poder e a complexidade das deusas que moldaram o Olimpo. Com seu estilo inteligente, espirituoso e cheio de erudição acessível, ela revisita as histórias de Atena, Afrodite, Hera, Deméter, Ártemis, Héstia e muitas outras figuras divinas que há séculos foram relegadas ao segundo plano.

On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax. Here, Virginia Woolf perfected the interior monologue and the novel's lyricism and accessibility have made it one of her most popular works. 

This collection contains Virginia Woolf's two most important and impactful non-fiction essays: A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas which have inspired and enraptured readers for decades. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the famous Bloomsbury Group.