The celebration is celebrated Women's Day and we review one selection of readings of all genres and formats where women are protagonists. Writers, illustrators and main characters of stories, articles and images that focus on the female figure from different perspectives. Of course, they are readings for everyone.
Women's Day — Selection of readings
I do not feel anything — Liv Stroemquist
His first title in the form of comic It is signed by the successful Swedish cartoonist and contains her well-known caustic tone, but also her documentary rigor. The topic? The heart and love in these times. And to talk about them, he uses characters as diverse as Leonardo DiCaprio, Beyoncé, the philosopher Kierkegaard, the Smurfs or contestants on television shows.
The Bloomsbury Girls —Natalie Jenner
This novel, set in 1950, tells us the story of a bookstore, Bloomsbury Books, For a hundred years it has remained the same and with a mainly male team. But the world is changing. Thus, the few girls who work on it have already planned how to give it another look. Are Vivien, who has lost her fiancé in the war; Grace, married with two children, and Evie, one of the first women to graduate from Cambridge.
The history of the woman in 100 objects —Espido Freire
Espido Freire makes use of the past and the reference of 100 objects that had women as protagonists, recipients or inventors to tell us to take a look at the female story. They are objects like mantilla, the smallpox vaccine, the lipstick or a Barbie and in them is also a rich and diverse heritage fueled by cunning of our ancestors to respond to their needs in a society that considered them a lower priority.
The book is illustrated by big paolaAlso known as Miss Little Big.
Points of view of a woman —Carmen Laforet
It's always good to read Carmen laforet, but this time we put aside his novels and we find this compilation their articles published between 1948 and 1953 in the section «Points of view of a woman» of the magazine Destination. In them we approach the day to day of her time, which was a time in which women wanted to be seen and heard beyond the walls of their homes. But he not only portrayed the concerns and desires of the women of a country under general repression, but he also knew how to create a shared space of freedom and complicity.
Carmen Laforet was a unique author in narrating that daily life as if it were a extraordinary event. A facet to discover or rediscover an author who broke barriers in her time. This journalistic look It is essential to expand and further enlarge your figure.
Grass —Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
This one of the most important books of recent times and that is how it has been considered by critics from all over the world. It is the acclaimed non-fiction graphic novel about one of the darkest chapters of the XNUMXth century: that of the sex slavesthe so-called "comfort women" asian in the Second World War. Specifically, it counts historia real from a survivor: Lee Ok Sun, a young Korean woman who during the Pacific War was exploited as such by the Imperial Japanese Army.
Gendry-Kim has drawn on her own interviews with her in a nursing home to tell us about her childhood in a very humble environment, and how the successively sold to various foster families until the Japanese occupation occurred and in 1942 she was forcibly transferred to an air base in China.
Been comic of the year for New York Times, The Guardian o Los Angeles Times. And it has also taken Awards such as the Harvey Award, the Cartoonist Studio Prize or the Big Other Book Award, among others.
Daniela and the pirate women of history —Susanna Isern
We end with this title from one of the authors with the longest experience in children's literature, the writer and psychologist Susanna Isern. With it, the youngest readers will learn in a very entertaining and illustrated way the lives and adventures of ten of the greatest female pirates of history.
Who tells us is Daniela, a girl who discovers a old book from his grandmother who talks about those ten brave women who sailed through the seas of China to the shores of New York, and from ancient Greece to the most modern times. Of course they were also looking for riches and many wanted to stop them or tried to prevent them from sailing. but they they rebelled against their fate or they struggled to improve it. So we will walk through the lives of Awilda, Mary read, Lai Choi San, Grace O'Malley or Ching Shih, and their exploits will inspire Daniela.