Popular European Feminism Books
Find feminism books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (58)
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A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen EN
NorwayDescription:
Ibsen's 1879 play shocked its first audiences with its radical insights into the social roles of husband and wife. His portrayal of the caged 'songbird' in his flawed heroine Nora remains one of the most striking dramatic depictions of the late 19th century woman. This revised edition contains introductory commentary and notes by Sophie Duncan, which offer a contemporary lens on the play's gender politics and consider seminal productions of the play into the 21st century. METHUEN DRAMA STUDENT EDITIONS are expertly annotated texts of a wide range of plays from the modern and classic repertoire... continue
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A Feminist Theory of Violence : A Decolonial Perspective by Françoise Vergès EN
FranceDescription:
The State will not protect us from gender violence. Our feminism must be anti-racist and decolonial, and must fight for everyone's safety
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A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf EN
EnglandDescription:
Woolf's celebrated essay based on the thesis that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
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Russia
Austria6.
Blue Ticket by Sophie Mackintosh EN
WalesDescription:
"A mesmerizing, refracted vision of our society: In a world where women can't have it all, but are selected as either mothers or workers at the beginning of their adult lives, is choice the biggest burden of all?"--
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Cuentos de Buenas Noches Para Ninas Rebeldes = Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli, Francesca Cavallo ES
ItalyDescription:
Cuentos de buenas noches para ni�as rebeldes reinventa los cuentos de hadas. Elizabeth I, Coco Chanel, Marie Curie, Frida Kahlo, Serena Williams y otras mujeres extraordinarias narran la aventura de su vida, inspirando a ni�as ―y no tan ni�as― a so�ar en grande y alcanzar sus sue�os; adem�s, cuenta con las magn�ficas ilustraciones de sesenta mujeres artistas de todos los rincones del planeta. Un libro que debe estar en la mesa de noche de todas las ni�as o mujeres j�venes que conozcas. --Geri Stengel, Forbes Estos cuentos para antes de dormir no son protagonizados por princesas, sino por mujer... continue
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Romania
Moldova10.
Empty Wardrobes by Maria Judite de Carvalho EN
PortugalDescription:
A previously untranslated classic of Portuguese feminist literature originally published in 1978, Carvalho's Empty Wardrobes introduces English-speaking readers to a forgotten and underappreciated woman writer a la recent publishing sensations Lucia Berlin, Natalia Ginzburg, Ingeborg Bachmann, Silvina Ocampo, and Armonia Somers. Empty Wardrobes is a tightly plotted, highly entertaining read, that, thanks to an ingenious detached narrative technique (one that makes the plot all the more fun to revisit and rethink), is both darkly humorous and devastatingly true.