The passion to be a woman
by Eugenia Tusquets y Susana Frouchtmann
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A bel canto diva who chose to devote herself to loving happiness; a philosopher who influenced 20th century thinking; a First Lady who transcended the stereotype and became a social reference; a nun who decided to realise her dream of getting closer to God without worldly interference. Diverse individual examples for the same underlying reality: women who became aware of their own being and acted taking advantage of their abilities, often clashing against the inertia of a world marked by the male stamp. This book brings together a dozen female testimonies with a common link: the will to excel and the ambition to exist to the full. Maria Callas, Hannah Arendt, Eleanor Roosevelt and Teresa de Ávila share pages with Virginia Woolf, Remedios Varo, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Anaïs Nin and Mercè Rodoreda, among others. Eugenia Tusquets recreates that facet of their lives that has transformed them into a character worthy of attention, that revealing episode that has remained hidden behind the cloud of their fame and the sometimes ambiguous narration of their existence. Susana Frouchtmann delimits the context in which this private transformation takes place, in the form of a journalistic-biographical chronicle that completes each profile and makes comprehensible the true scope of what would otherwise appear to be a mere anecdotal account. At some point, they all had to decide whether to follow the path set by the society of their time or the one imposed on them by their inner selves. The rest belongs to history.
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- Publisher/Imprint Circe Ediciones / 2000
- ISBN/Identifier 9788477653059
- Publication Country or regionSpain
- Pages352
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleLa pasión de ser mujer
- Original Language Authorsspanish
- Edition2015
- Copyright Year2015
- IllustrationYes
- Biblio NotesOtros libros de Tusquets, Eugenia son Cartas Olvidadas De Jane Eyre Y Anna Karenina, El Cuadro Perdido De Picasso y Ladrones De Vidas.
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