EAN: 9781526630827

THE SOUL OF A WOMAN - ISABEL ALLENDE TASCHENBUCH

_______________    'An autobiographical meditation on feminism  power and womanhood . Full of
Isabel's wisdom and warm words' - Grazia    'In her small  potent polemic . . . Isabel Allende
writes about the toxic effects of "machismo"  combining wit with anger as she picks apart the
patriarchy' - Independent    'Allende has everything it takes: the ear  the eye  the mind  the
heart  the all-encompassing humanity' - New York Times    An Independent  Guardian and Grazia
Highlight for 2021  _______________  The wise  warm  defiant new book from literary legend
Isabel Allende - a meditation on power  feminism and what it means to be a woman    When I say
that I was a feminist in kindergarten  I am not exaggerating.   As a child  Isabel Allende
watched her mother  abandoned by her husband  provide for her three small children. As a young
woman coming of age in the late 1960s  she rode the first wave of feminism. She has seen what
has been accomplished by the movement in the course of her lifetime. And over the course of
three marriages  she has learned how to grow as a woman while having a partner  when to step
away  and the rewards of embracing one's sexuality.  So what do women want? To be safe  to be
valued  to live in peace  to have their own resources  to be connected  to have control over
their bodies and lives  and above all  to be loved. On all these fronts  there is much work to
be done  and this book  Allende hopes  will 'light the torch of our daughters and
granddaughters with mine. They will have to live for us  as we lived for our mothers  and carry
on with the work still left to be finished.'  _______________    'Her thoughts  language and
ideas traverse fluidly through ideas of gender  historic injustices  her marriages and bodily
experiences and literary references . . . Allende's love for women is palpable' - Sydney
Morning Herald

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