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The red bracelet: it graces the wrists of numerous celebrities - from Madonna to Britney Spears - who have converted to the spiritual practice of Kabbalah. But what is Kabbalah and how can women apply it to their own lives?
In A New Kabbalah for Women, bestselling author and teacher of Jewish mysticism and meditation, Perle Besserman, shares a feminine approach to spirituality. Since the time of Moses, Jewish mysticism has been barred to women, and...
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The Heavenly Twins (1893) is a novel by Sarah Grand. Written the same year Grand moved to London, divorced her husband, and created a new identity for herself, The Heavenly Twins explores the feminist ideal of the New Woman. As a pioneering feminist ,whose marriage ended in bitter disappointment, Grand sought, to address the frustrations of women, whose every move in life was measured against the expectations of a patriarchal society. In her novel,...
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This inspiring and compelling narrative weaves together stories of sixty successful women from all walks of life and throughout the world. The author spent several years in eight countries interviewing dynamic female role models: businesswomen, CEOs, a Congresswoman, a governor, an ex-Prime Minister, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, a winemaker, artists, doctors, nurses, and many others. The author calls these women "Iron Butterflies"...
5) Ladies coupé
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Forty-five-year-old Akhila, a single income-tax clerk who has always wondered whether her life has been complete without a man, finds her answer when she buys a one-way ticket to a resort town and becomes immersed in the intimate, confessional atmosphere of the all-women sleeping car.
6) The Crux
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When a group of New England women move to the western frontier, they encounter a new set of problems testing their love, friendship and spirits. In The Crux, Gilman highlights women's need for economic independence and sexual autonomy. The strain of New England life pushes a group of progressive women to move to Colorado. Together, they open a boarding house and create a bustling business that supports both men and women. When one of the ladies fall...
7) Moods
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Originally published in 1864, "Moods" was the first book produced by Louisa May Alcott under her real name and pre-dated her hugely popular novel "Little Women". Written for a noticeably more mature audience then her most famous works, "Moods" revolves around the intersecting lives of an abolitionist spinster and a fallen Cuban beauty. Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) was an American short story writer, novelist, and poet most famous for writing the...
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Not yours, Truly is a collection of ten short stories that tell the story of ten different women. Each woman tells her story, whether it has a happy ending or not. She struggles to survive her circumstances and the demons that come with it and tells her tale through uncensored yet poignant prose. Not yours, Truly sends the reader into ten different battles, and recounts the tale of ten different women's struggle to survive.
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Seltsame Dinge geschahen im Dorf. Magenhäute wurden als Flaggen gehisst, Vorhäute um Arme gewickelt und die losen Frauen schlackerten mit ihren Kehlen im Wind. Die Großmutter und die Mutter hielten Wache über die Bräuche im Dorf. Sie führten Aufgaben aus, die bald auf eine junge Frau übertragen werden sollten. Was es zu bewachen gilt, bleibt verborgen. Die Protagonistin versucht, den Klauen dieser bizarren Dorfgemeinschaft durch die Flucht...
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La sacerdotisa griega Casandra está harta, hasta los mismos ovarios, de que los troyanos no crean en sus profecías. En una aldea medieval de Gales, una niñita escucha a su mamá contarle el típico cuento del dragón y la virgen sacrificada, y ese es en verdad el principio de un cuento de brujas. En un campus universitario cualquiera, el fantasma de un predicador puritano insulta y acosa (con bastante ternura, todo sea dicho), a una joven madre...
11) Amina
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Novels in English by northern Nigerian writers are few, so the arrival of a new one is an exciting literary event. This dramatic story of the efforts of the heroine and her friends to bring about change in the social conditions of women in Nigeria addresses pressing political issues which rarely appear in fiction-the legal status of Muslim women, the limitations imposed on them by traditional and religious conventions, the restrictions on their economic...
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Turn Key and Other Stories is a brilliant short story collection by renowned Virginia author Susan Pepper Robbins. Featuring some of her best short stories, the collection delivers powerful, gritty characters full of heart and spirit. Ranging from longer stories to one-page hitters, Robbins masters the pen and sprays ink economically.
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Rose has always dreamed about marrying a prince charming, but instead she married an evil stepmother. Rose was born as a Princess, but got exiled from royalty when she was a child. Marriage proposal from Prince Kit is a chance of returning to royal life, so she takes it. Unfortunately, what a 21st century Princess thinks of as a dream, turns out to be a nightmare. She desires a peaceful, calm family life, but the endless cycle of rigorous rules, strict...
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A través de las protagonistas de cada historia de Las que somos, Rosalí León-Ciliotta nos muestra las diferentes aristas del ser mujer en un tiempo tan remoto como el Perú de la independencia, un país machista y misógino latinoamericano o un lugar tan lejano como el confín del mundo. Cada uno de los tres cuentos de este libro pone a sus protagonistas en lugares insólitos y situaciones límite de las cuales emergerán: Ventura hará lo que...
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Written while she was still a teenager, My Brilliant Career catapulted young Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (writing as Miles Franklin) into worldwide fame. In fact, the sudden popularity of the book in Australia (and the perceived closeness of the plot to her own family history) caused Franklin to withdraw the book from publication until after her death.
The story centers on Sybylla Melvyn, a headstrong girl growing up in rural Australia...
16) Una vieja cámara
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Después de sufrir durante años el maltrato de su marido ha tomado, por fin, la decisión: Mar huye de su hogar.
Es una mujer joven y preparada. Sin embargo, ha seguido el mismo patrón que su madre años atrás. Abandona su vida y coge un tren dirección a París. Será un viaje largo y de noche. Sabe que no podrá dormir. No le importa, necesita tiempo para pensar.
Durante el trayecto su mente volverá a la infancia. Recordará los años tan horribles...
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Mujeres y sexo, mujeres y amistad, mujeres y sufrimiento: las tres obras recogidas en este volumen exploran el universo femenino en sus facetas más oscuras y misteriosas.
El cuerpo femenino rechaza convertirse en mercancía en el diálogo entre Manila y su cliente que da título al libro: una conversación punzante e irónica en la que la mujer utiliza la única arma que tiene a disposición, la palabra, para poner al desnudo las mentiras del hombre,...
18) Oneiron
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Siete mujeres se encuentran en un espacio indefinido segundos después de su muerte. El tiempo, tal como lo entendemos, ha dejado de existir, y todas las sensaciones corporales han desaparecido. Ninguna de las mujeres, de distintas edades, ocupaciones y nacionalidades, puede recordar lo que les sucedió, dónde están o cómo llegaron allí. No se conocen. A su vez, intentan recordar, reconstruir los fragmentos de sus vidas, sus identidades, sus amores...
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Considered an early feminist classic, Sylvia Townsend Warner's Lolly Willowes; Or The Loving Huntsman is a fantastical comedy about a middle-aged witch and her search for peace that was selected as the first ever Book of the Month upon publication in 1926.
"When her father died, Laura Willowes went to live in London with her elder brother and his family…[she] was a gentle creature, and the little girls loved her; she would soon fit into her new...
20) The Odd Women
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The Odd Women (1893) is a novel by George Gissing. Inspired by a report of over one million more women living in Britain than men, Gissing sought to explore the societal and personal implications of unmarried life while exploring the demands of the growing feminist movement. The Odd Women is a story of romance, independence, and the pressures of society that poses important questions about convention in Victorian England while proving surprisingly...
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