✺ Recommended book ❛ War's Unwomanly Face (Voices of Utopia #1) by Svetlana Alexievich ❜ This book is a confession, a document and a record of people's memory. More than 200 women speak in it, describing how young girls, who dreamed of becoming brides, became soldiers in 1941. More than 500,000 Soviet women participated on a par with men in the Second World War, the most terrible war of the 20th century. Women not only rescued and bandaged the wounded but also fired
✤ Recommended book. Good and Mad. The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger by Rebecca Traister Journalist Rebecca Traister’s New York Times bestselling exploration of the transformative power of female anger and its ability to transcend into a political movement is “a hopeful, maddening compendium of righteous feminine anger, and the good it can do when wielded efficiently—and collectively” ( Vanity Fair ). Long before Pantsuit Nation, before the Women’s March, and before th
✤ Books that every #women should read. Ilesa, Nigeria. Ever since they first met and fell in love at university, Yejide and Akin have agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage—after consulting fertility doctors and healers, and trying strange teas and unlikely cures—Yejide is still not pregnant. She assumes she still has time—until her in-laws arrive on her doorstep with a young woman they introduce as Akin’s second wife. Furious, shocked, and liv
✿ Recommended Book. Loba by Diane di Prima. Loba is a visionary epic quest for the reintegration of the femimine, hailed by many as the great female counterpart to Allen Ginsberg's Howl when the first half appeared in 1978. Now published for the first time in its completed form with new material, Loba, "she-wolf" in Spanish explores the wilderness at the heart of experience, through the archetype of the wolf goddess, elemental symbol of complete self-acceptance "However
Books that every woman should read. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audreu Lorde. ❛ Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches ❜ is a collection of essential essays and speeches written by Audreu Lorde, a woman who wrote from the particulars of her identity: #blackwoman, lesbian, #poet, #activist, cancer survivor, mother, and #feministwriter This collection, now considered a classic volume, of Lorde's most influential works of non-fiction prose has had a groundbreaking i
✤ Books that every #entrepreneurwomen should read. Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane. Ubuntu is an ancient Southern African philosophy about how to live life well, together. It is a belief in a universal human bond, which says: I am only because you are. And it means that if you can see everyone as fully human, connected to you by their humanity, you will never be able to treat others as disposable or without worth. By embracing