The literary season is here and you are looking for inspiration? Follow the guide, we unveil the literary AND feminist outings of the fall not to be missed.
After spending the summer on the beach reading a book, the literary return to school was eagerly awaited and it is finally here. Feminist books are making a comeback and many should appeal to fans of these kinds of books. Essays, fictions, biographies … We take stock of inspiring, feminist books that lift the veil on many social issues around women's rights. Follow the guide.
Kiss after #Metoo: Letters to our crappy lovers, by Ovidie, illustrated by Diglee
Kiss after #Metoo was born from a collaboration between Ovidie and illustrator Diglee. With this book, they question the sexuality of women and how, today, they could approach it. Thus, they are addressed to men on the abnormal sexual situations that almost all women have experienced. It is a whole relational relationship, on the sexual level, which is called into question after this liberation of women's speech. In the end, it is in epistolary form that Ovidie and Diglee dare to say here everything that we have not dared to say to our lovers until now. They thus question the heterosexual couple and the problematic behaviors which it seems, even today, difficult to get rid of.
Kiss after #Metoo: Letters to our crappy lovers, by Ovidie, illustrated by Diglee
Power Book for Wonder Girl Edition
128 pages, € 17.95
It's my body, by Martin Winckler
Contraceptions, puberty, menopause, obstetric violence, mental illnesses, endometriosis, sexual orientations … Martin Winckler, general practitioner, lifts the veil on many questions that women ask themselves without ever having answers. This is my body seems to break the taboos around various subjects that shed light on our place within patriarchal society. For 25 years, Martin Winckler was a doctor in an abortion center. He has dedicated his career to the health and well-being of women. This is my body is not his first novel since he has already published The Women's Choir, Sachs Disease as well as The School for Caregivers.
This is my body, by Martin Winckler
Iconoclastic Edition
512 pages, € 22.90
I will look for you to the end of the world, by Shobha Rao
In I will look for you to the end of the world, Shobha Rao tells the story of Poormina, a 16-year-old Indian girl, who waits for her father to promise her to a man. One day, she meets Savitha whose daily life is completely different. Poormina realizes that there may be a world elsewhere. And when her friend disappears after having lived through the worst, she decides to go looking for him. This novel therefore explores the pressures exerted on women, their rights and the perpetual quest for emancipation around a powerful social subject against a background of sorority.
I will look for you to the end of the world, Shobha Rao
Edition Xo
349 pages, € 19.90
The power of mothers, by Fatima Ouassak
In The power of women, Fatima Ouassak tries to explore a necessary and above all powerful political reflection on mothers in working-class neighborhoods. The author deconstructs the figure of the "buffer mother" and this social pressure which asks them to constantly temper their children in the face of authority. The essay denounces this deeply uncomfortable posture and Fatima Ouassak exposes a social and political point. Should we protect our children from neighborhood violence or let them express themselves in the face of the justice they suffer? It is a combative subject that is questioned and it is written in the first person. We should therefore expect to share a very personal experience.
The power of mothers, by Fatima Ouassak
Discovery Edition
272 pages, 14 €
Me, men, I hate them, by Pauline Harmange
It is a work that is controversial. Me men I hate them Pauline Harmange did not please Ralph Zurmély, project manager at the ministry responsible for gender equality. According to Mediapart, he would have threatened the publishers of this work, Martin Page and Coline Pierré, to "lawsuits" if the work was not withdrawn from the catalog. So, Me, men, I hate them, is it a misander work? On her blog, Pauline Harmange explains: "I wanted to understand misandry and give it back the right to exist outside of humor, to anchor it in our realities. Feminists must constantly shy away from really hating men, on the pretext that it would harm our cause, that men must be our allies and that for that, we must not exclude them. For my part, I think that misandry is not only perfectly justified, but also necessary. "
Me, men, I hate them, Pauline Harmange
Monstrograph Edition
12 €
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