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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