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9786073181891

El pequeño libro de las grandes feministas / The Little Book of Feminist Saints

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  • ISBN13:

    9786073181891

  • ISBN10:

    6073181892

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2019-10-22
  • Publisher: Grijalbo
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Summary

En este luminoso volumen, la exitosa escritora del The New York Times, Julia Pierpont, y la artista Manjit Thapp combinan biografías breves, vibrantes y sorprendentes con preciosos retratos de “santas” seculares, campeonas de la fuerza y el progreso: mujeres que sacudieron la tierra, rompieron techos e hicieron explotar los moldes.

Entre ellas, se encuentran:

Nina  Simone - Jane Austen - Amelia Earhart - Frida Kahlo - Michelle Obama - Sonia Sotomayor - Pussy Riot - Rosario Castellanos - Yayoi Kusama - Las hermanas Brontë - Victoria Ocampo - Simone de Beauvoir - Safo - Emily Dickinson - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz - Madonna

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION



This beautifully illustrated collection honoring one hundred exceptional “feminist saints” throughout history is sure to inspire women and men alike.

“A new set of role models and heroes—‘matron saints’—for the feminist future.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“The women in this book . . . blazed trails where none existed before.”—The Guardian

In this luminous volume, New York Times bestselling writer Julia Pierpont and artist Manjit Thapp match short, vibrant, and surprising biographies with stunning full-color portraits of secular female “saints”: champions of strength and progress. These women broke ground, broke ceilings, and broke molds—including:
 
Nina  Simone - Jane Austen - Amelia Earhart - Frida Kahlo - Michelle Obama - Sonia Sotomayor - Pussy Riot - Rosario Castellanos - Yayoi Kusama - Las hermanas Brontë - Victoria Ocampo - Simone de Beauvoir - Safo - Emily Dickinson - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz - Madonna
 
Open to any page and find daily inspiration and lasting delight.

Author Biography

Julia Pierpont es la autora del bestseller del The New York Times, Among the Ten Thousand Things, ganador del Prix Fitzgerald en Francia. Se graduó en Barnard College y en el programa de la maestría de bellas artes de la New York University. Sus escritos han aparecido en The Guardian, The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review y Guernica. Vive y enseña en Nueva York.
 @juliapierpont

Manjit Thapp es una ilustradora del Reino Unido. Se graduó con una licenciatura en artes en ilustración, en el Camberwell College of Arts en 2016. Sus ilustraciones combinan medios tradicionales y digitales, y su trabajo ha sido publicado en Instagram, Dazed, Vogue India y la revista Wonderland.
@manjitthapp

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