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Schon als Teenager wusste Fern Brady, dass sie anders war. Als sie zufällig über Autismus las, wusste sie instinktiv, warum. Hier war die Erklärung für ihre Wahrnehmungsstörungen, ihre Meltdowns, ihre Unfähigkeit, soziale Signale zu deuten. Doch erst mit 34 folgte endlich die befreiende Diagnose. In dieser schonungslos ehrlichen ....

Dies ist die Geschichte eines behüteten Mädchens, das unbequeme Fragen stellt, die Geschichte einer mutigen, tapferen Frau, die früh verwitwet ihre fünf Kinder allein durchbringt. Es ist die Geschichte von Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928), die sich so gründlich über die Verhältnisse in ihrem Land empörte, dass sie zur bekanntesten und ....

Audrey Lorde was a survivor: of childhood disability injustice, of her best friend's suicide, of the atomic age. She was a college activist against nuclear arms. A mother who knew that poetry could help her children survive a racist world. And, ultimately, a cancer survivor, who understood that the war going on within her cells was ....

Die Begegnung mit dem Fremden – eine Begegnung mit dem Fremden in sich selbst Fünf Männer in der Mitte ihres Lebens: Die verurteilten ehemaligen Terroristen Muhammad, Suleiman und Jamil aus den besetzten Gebieten sowie die Israelis Chen und Amil, die den Dienst an der Waffe verweigert haben. Männer, die im Gefängnis saßen und, nachdem sie ....

D’Ora, mit bürgerlichem Namen Dora Kallmus, war eine Fotografin von internationalem Rang mit Ateliers in Wien und später in Paris, wo sich Persönlichkeiten von Gustav Klimt bis zum Kaiserhaus, Josephine Baker bis Pablo Picasso porträtieren ließen. 1940, nach der Okkupation Frankreichs, verlor sie ihren Besitz. Ihre geliebte Schwester ....

Deeply personal, astutely observed, sometimes devastating but frequently hysterically funny.The memoir from Australia's much-loved comedian, Hannah Gadsby, whose stand-up show and self-described swan-song, NANETTE, won the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2017 before transferring to New York, where it went on to achieve critical acclaim. ....

This is the first time that the complete autobiography which Alexandra Kollontai wrote in 1926 has been published. "For it is not her specific feminine virtue that gives her a place of honor in human society, but the worth of the useful mission accomplished by her, the worth of her personality as human being, as citizen, as thinker, as ....

The Cancer Journals is an intimate, poetic and invigorating account of the experience of breast cancer, from biopsy to mastectomy, told by the great feminist and activist Audre Lorde.Moving between journal entry, memoir, and essay, Lorde fuses the personal and political to reflect on the many questions breast cancer raises: questions of ....

In The Heart of a Woman, Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to move to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and writers, reads her work at the Harlem Writers Guild, and begins to take part in the struggle of black Americans for their rightful place in the world. In the meantime, her personal ....

Olympian and World Champion Caster Semenya is finally ready to share the vivid and heartbreaking story of how the world came to know her name. Thrust into the spotlight at just eighteen years old after winning the Berlin World Championships in 2009, Semenya’s win was quickly overshadowed by criticism and speculation about her body, and ....

Meara O'Hara grew up under the constant glare of a violent and charismatic cult leader as she drifted between Germany, Switzerland and Austria. This is her story. It is a true story.Years later, while travelling through the USA, she is revisited by the persistent and sinister shadow of a man who would manipulate those around him to his ....

From one of America's iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life - in good times and bad - that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. A stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill. At ....