Siblings Greta and Valdin have, perhaps, too much in common. They're flatmates, beholden to the same near-unpronounceable surname, and both make questionable choices when it comes to love.Valdin is in love with his ex-boyfriend Xabi, who left the country because he thought he was making Valdin sad. Greta is in love with fellow English ....

Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues. All too often, however, the ....

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende der achtziger Jahre in Ostberlin, zufällig, und kommen für die nächsten Jahre nicht voneinander los. Vor dem Hintergrund der untergehenden DDR und des Umbruchs nach 1989 erzählt Jenny Erpenbeck in ihrer unverwechselbaren Sprache von den ....

Eine junge Frau mit einem unbeugsamen Willen. Und eine Gesellschaft, die versucht, sie zu brechen. Unter der sengenden Sonne der Lombardei im Jahr 1935 begegnet Francesca zum ersten Mal Maddalena, die von allen im Ort nur »Malnata« genannt wird: »Die Unheilbringende«. Francesca – zu Konformität und Gehorsam erzogen – ist sofort ....

Nicht einfach, eine Schwester zu sein, wenn die andere so schön ist, so leuchtend, so geheimnisvoll. Auf Anita und Aloe Böhm liegt ein Familiengeheimnis. Im Deutschland der 90er-Jahre weiß niemand damit umzugehen: Anita, die Jüngere, wurde als Intersex geboren. Mit Operationen und Hormonen versuchte man, ihre wahre Körpergeschichte zu ....

The consequences of racism can be found in our bodies - in skin and sinew, in bone and blood. In this ground-breaking, inspiring work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage, the physical consequences of discrimination, from the perspective of body-centred psychology. He argues that until we learn to heal and overcome the ....

It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?Our narrator has many of the advantages of life: Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. But there is a vacuum at ....

In der Ehe mit Rechtsanwalt Otávio findet Joana keine Antwort auf ihre Fragen. Auch ihr drängender Wunsch, nahe dem »wilden Herzen« des Lebens zu sein, sich durch die Liebe zu befreien, bleibt unerfüllt. Joana sucht im Rückblick auf die eigene Kindheit und Jugend nach Träumen und frühen Zielen, stößt auf inneren Reichtum und die ....

In her memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the power of music, feminism, political activism, storytelling, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, and much more into an inspiring whole. In these frank, honest, passionate, and often funny ....

"I am afraid of being the disruptive woman. And of not being disruptive enough. I am afraid. But I am doing it anyway."In this dazzling debut, Emilie Pine speaks to the business of living as a woman in the 21st century - its extraordinary pain and its extraordinary joy. Courageous, humane and uncompromising, she writes with radical ....

"On Earth We re Briefly Gorgeous" is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, ....

In this highly-acclaimed work, Edward Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal with the 'otherness' of eastern culture, customs and beliefs. He traces this view through ....