The title story is dedicated to Mary Toft, which simulated child-bearing rabbits. But elsewhere in

On the occasion of Women's Day theme entry, so in fact accidentally international women s day history happened that just finished today, The Invention of Wings, the latest novel Sue Monk Kidd, perhaps international women s day history the most well-known of (unknown to me just) The Secret Life of Bees. But although this last novel pulls me too, dramatized the story of one of the first American feminists and abolicjonistek, Sarah Grimke, sounded international women s day history the most interesting.
The action takes place in the first half of the nineteenth century, partly international women s day history in Charleston, and partly in the North. The heroines are already mentioned above, Sarah, the daughter of a wealthy lawyer whose (relatively) wealthy lifestyle is possible due to their plantations outside the city, and Handful / Hetty, its almost the same age and slave, gifted to the girl on the eleventh birthday.
The novel chronicles the adolescence of the two women (and, to a lesser extent, their younger sisters) and presents an interesting picture of the obstacles that stood in front of ambitious women. Embedding in history (most of the Grimke sisters biography is based on facts; Handful story is largely fiction, but also hooked international women s day history in fact) is a definite advantage here. Sarah was abolitionist before Uncle Tom's Cabin and emancipated before Seneca Falls, a true pioneer, and knowledge of its history is to know herstorii the civil rights movement. On the other hand, the book may be lost due to problems with the pace of action, which may in part also from the roots arise - the action happens in fits and starts and lasts for a few decades, international women s day history the heroine very slowly reaches for his execution, and her journey is largely inner journey (writing interesting that someone comes to applications is not easy). The fate of heroines are not so close together entwined, as you would want it, which is probably a good choice on the part of the author (because surely, one would like to heroines were friends, but one of them was a slave to the other and it's so simple it is not) . However, - read great, so bookclubowa book in a good sense.
A few days ago I finished a famous international women s day history Svetlana Aleksijevič War is not nothing like a woman, and here, unfortunately, my expectations were disappointed complex. I do not know if it's a matter of knowledge of the subject (but with the Second World War, something to read in school, and even then don't happened), or reading other, more violent history, but the "female gaze" on the second war with the female side of the Red Army (both female soldiers and all auxiliary services) just did not do for me until that impression. Relations were places poignant first-person, especially when was getting to some very tragic story (killed the family, unhappy love, the terrible cruelty), but most struck me basically two things: first, the practical absence of rape in narrated stories (there was one (!)) Story , the narrator said that she was afraid that her colleagues raped, and perhaps one or two stories in which the narrator's mention of rape in the German women). Apparently, the Red Army was the most disciplined army in history. And I understand that subjective stories and silences international women s day history świadkiń and things you do not want to remember, but since this is a reporter.
And the second most shocking thing is - on one hand - the patriotic impulse of these young women, without thinking, contrary to the families going to war right now, for Communism, on the other - the horror of what happened to them after the war, ranging from the hearings on social ostracyzmie international women s day history (after the war certainly is puszczały) ending.
The Salt Roads Nalo Hopkinson. Not entirely successful experiment may, but worth reading anyway - a novel composed of intertwined with each other more or less interesting history of women in different ages and in different places, connected by not fully developed form of the goddess. Appears, inter alia, Jeanne Duval (Baudelaire's mistress), black saint Mary of Egypt, international women s day history slaves harvesting sugar cane. Two collections of short stories Emma Donoghue, Astray and The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits. Numerous stories of men and women (but mostly, international women s day history however, women) in different moments of history, based on historical international women s day history traces, but rather their scraps - short press releases, works of art, court documents, constituting the residue of someone else's story. Most of the two sets I liked the story about unless experimental mistress of the king, arranged in a list. But all texts worth reading.
The title story is dedicated to Mary Toft, which simulated child-bearing rabbits. But elsewhere in the collection can be found also the story of Effie Gray, Ruskin's wife, whose fate has just been filmed (Emma Thompson screenplay, the film comes to cinemas international women s day history probably this year), Mary Wollstonecraft, and the nineteenth-century activity