en-US Thu, 03 Jul 2025 13:32:03 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 49616722 Svegliami a mezzanotte è un libro incandescente: una storia di luce scritta da chi ha attraversato la notte.]]> 168 Fuani Marino 880624261X Sara 0 to-read 3.89 2019
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In questo romanzo la scrittrice afferra la sua mente in fuga e vi cerca i perché e i come tra ricordi, strettoie e cavità. Parla dell’infanzia e di sua madre, della giovinezza passata nelle scuole di Maiorca e nei campi della Castiglia, di pasticche arancioni che ti mettono in pausa, e pasticche rosa che ti lanciano nella stratosfera. Ci sono sogni, incubi, desideri e libri, storie per evadere e altre per capire cosa le passava per la testa. Qui la letteratura è balsamo, speranza e salvezza. Il risultato di quest’enorme fatica mentale, è condensato in pagine agili e strazianti, che possono essere lette come sorta di terapia che disseziona il dolore e chiama le cose con il loro nome senza tanti giri di parole, con humor e una buona dose d’ironia.]]> 216 Almudena Sánchez 888573779X Sara 0 to-read 4.00 2021
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While many narrative set pieces of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river’s banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin…), Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.

Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a “literary icon” (Oprah Daily), and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime, James is destined to be a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature.]]> 304 Percival Everett 0385550375 Sara 0 to-read 4.59 2024
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]]> 205668489 Merging memoir, poetry, and criticism, this radical literary revue traces a first-generation Nigerian American’s search for home and belonging on her own terms.

In three parts, The Gloomy Girl Variety Show traces the joys and despairs of an imaginary house hunt. Author Freda Epum takes the real-life housing inequity she encounters and spins it into a sprawling meditation on the larger cost of living and enduring as a Black disabled woman in America. Brick by brick, and despite the difficulties she faces, Epum creates space for women, people of color, people with disabilities, children of immigrants, and anyone else who has felt “in-between.”

In this formally inventive memoir woven with essays, poems, and images, Epum explores the opposing forces of her “no-place, no-where” identity. As a Nigerian American daughter who spent years in and out of institutions while she sought treatment for life-threatening mental illness, Epum examines her journey through healthcare and housing systems via a pop cultural lens: our collective obsession with HGTV’s home buying and makeover shows.

With raw honesty and a wry sense of humor, The Gloomy Girl Variety Show explores the complexity of coming of age under intersecting forms of oppression, and reveals what it takes to come back from the brink of despair and arrive somewhere safe, beautiful, and empowering.]]> 224 Freda Epum 1558613102 Sara 0 to-read 4.59
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]]> 123233703 62 Olivia Muenz Sara 3 4.53
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]]> 59116238 144 Billy-Ray Belcourt 8894833518 Sara 4 queerness 3.61 2020
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]]> 231117405 Il post viene visualizzato più di dieci milioni di volte. La sua veemente denuncia dell’ipocrisia dell’Occidente dinanzi al genocidio di Gaza, del tradimento della sua promessa di libertà e giustizia per tutti, suscita un’eco enorme.
Un giorno tutti diranno di essere stati contro, il libro che El Akkad decide poi di scrivere dopo la morte di migliaia di donne e bambini nella striscia, è la cronaca di quella promessa tradita, il resoconto della fine dell’idea che regole e principi, le “verità manifeste” della democrazia occidentale, servano davvero a combattere il male e non a preservare il potere.
Se il male, infatti, non è semplicemente muovere guerra contro un nemico, ma annientare un popolo intero riducendolo a nuda vita priva di ogni dignità e pietà umane, Gaza è oggi uno dei nomi per designare il suo irrompere nel mondo, il nome di un genocidio imperdonabile sotto ogni riguardo.
Disgusto o rabbia dinanzi a un simile evento non hanno senso in questo libro crudo, doloroso e vulnerabile, nutrito dalla certezza che vi saranno sempre esseri umani ritenuti non degni della promessa di libertà, non soltanto arabi o musulmani o immigrati, ma chiunque non rientri nella terra del privilegio chiamata Occidente. Nelle sue pagine, l’unica possibile risposta sta in una rottura totale con il credo dell’Occidente. La stessa rottura che risuona in ogni parte del pianeta, nelle strade delle grandi città, nei campus universitari, nelle scuole. E che, nella scrittura lucida di El Akkad, capace di mescolare racconti toccanti con spietate considerazioni sul linguaggio dei media occidentali, trova la sua più formidabile eco.


“Un libro sorprendente, scioccante, bellissimo ed essenziale. Mi ha sconvolto.”
Brian Eno

“Un giorno tutti diranno di essere stati contro è il libro più vero e necessario che potreste mai leggere.”
Junot Diaz

“Un urlo dal cuore della nostra epoca; fatico a trovare parole più precise che possano catturare la furia feroce e lacerante di questo libro, nel suo tentativo di descrivere l'indescrivibile e di dare coerenza a un mondo sempre più incoerente.”
Richard Flanagan]]> 175 Omar El Akkad Sara 4 non-fiction 4.50 2025
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]]> 17569996 344 Dubravka Ugrešić Sara 0 to-read 3.86 2000
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]]> 218459744 The practice of yoga promises peace, self-realisation and release thanks to the power of its 'mystic' Indian origins. But what if this is just hype?

In Fascist Yoga Stewart Home sweeps away the half-truths to tell a new origin story of the world’s first modern yogi—a Californian escapologist who added some Hindu fairy dust to gym and circus exercises. Ever since, the world of yoga has been full of grifters, occultists and white supremacists, all out to exploit and recruit via the medium of exercise. From cult leaders to brainwashed followers, TV celebrities and fake gurus, the story of yoga has involved some of the strangest currents of humanity.

Today the COVID-19 pandemic has activated elements within the modern yoga movement to espouse far-right conspiracies. QAnon’s fascist political programmes mirror some of yoga’s key early proponents. In this new exposé Home shows that nothing is sacred.]]> 224 Stewart Home 0745351123 Sara 0 to-read 3.00
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]]> 229232803 240 Mateusz Buczkowski Sara 0 to-read 5.00 2025
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]]> 139944167 234 Alice Spiga 8892782576 Sara 0 to-read 4.75
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]]> 61954909 134 Lola Ridge 8893332280 Sara 5 poesia 3.79
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]]> 62907980 300 Lilia Giugni 8830458937 Sara 5 3.76
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]]> 9727855 223 Virginia Woolf 8806177575 Sara 0 to-read 4.18 1931
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]]> 63846831 301 Mona Eltahawy Sara 5 feminism 4.08 2019
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average rating: 4.08
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Characterised as the 'backstage' family, the carer's remote relationship with their loved ones at home is often purely digital, with the double dilemmas of migrant motherhood and stay-behind fathers - exposing the pitfalls of transnational employment relations and the growth of social inequality.



Here, Helma Lutz explores the debates around this issue, focusing on carers from Eastern Europe working in the West. She unpacks questions around feminist critiques of capitalism and the commodification of emotional labour, exploring how gender justice and the search for socialist feminist utopias can shape how we see a future - not only for the improvement of the carers’ working and living conditions but also for a new way of dealing with care work.]]> 240 Helma Lutz 0745345360 Sara 0 to-read 4.00
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]]> 94201782 0 Unknown Author 8871666607 Sara 0 to-read 4.00
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]]> 234136900 «I miei figli mi hanno portato gioia, felicità, appagamento, meraviglia e piacere a dismisura. Ma quella è solo una parte della storia. Questo è il resto.»



Matrescenza, in termini scientifici, indica l’effetto che interviene sul cervello, sul sistema endocrino, sulle facoltà cognitive, il sistema immunitario, la psiche, il microbioma e il senso di sé di una donna, dal momento in cui inizia la gravidanza fino ai primi mesi di maternità.

È incredibile quanto questa rivoluzione sia stata trascurata dalla scienza, dalla medicina e dal dibattito corrente.



«La gravidanza, poi il parto, e – soprattutto – il primo periodo della maternità semplicemente non combaciavano con gli insegnamenti ricevuti; non riuscivo a ricollegare la mia esperienza personale alle nozioni che avevo assimilato riguardo a corpo, mente, individuo e io relazionale, e alle nostre strutture di vita collettive.

All’inizio credevo di essere impazzita. Cercavo disperatamente di comprendere che cosa mi stesse succedendo. Poi ho cominciato a capire che la mia mente era stata colonizzata da idee inadeguate sull’essere donna, sulla maternità, sul valore e persino sull’amore.

Avvertivo un cambiamento inquietante. Sprizzavo di felicità perché ero incinta, e una creatura cresceva dentro di me, ma con il passare delle settimane mi accorgevo di essere più sommessa, più introversa, sempre più confusionaria. Era come se qualcuno si fosse trasferito dentro di me, avesse messo casa nel mio utero e nel mio cervello. Di certo era solo frutto della mia immaginazione, pensavo; credevo che la gravidanza fosse un processo fisico relativamente lineare, con qualche giornata ‘ormonale’ qua e là. Pensavo che il bambino sarebbe cresciuto dentro di me, come in un vaso di fiori, e io sarei rimasta la stessa di sempre. Ma le cose non stavano così.

Scoprire la matrescenza mi ha dato il coraggio di parlare apertamente con altre madri, e ho scoperto che molte erano colte alla sprovvista dall’esperienza quanto me. Molte credevano che le difficoltà fossero colpa loro».

Attingendo a vari ambiti di ricerca – neuroscienze e biologia evolutiva, psicoanalisi e terapia esistenziale, sociologia, economia ed ecologia – Lucy Jones racconta in prima persona la sua esperienza di questo periodo di trasformazione, paragonabile quanto a complessità solo all’adolescenza.]]> 349 Lucy Jones 8858158652 Sara 0 to-read 4.50
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]]> 61426622 408 Ewa Wanat 8396447608 Sara 0 to-read 4.00 2022
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]]> 123628061 «Per uscire da tutto questo non basta volerlo, andare oltre. Queste sono frasi da bianchi. Nel quartiere ti giochi il tutto per tutto per sopravvivere.» E non vale solo nel «quartiere», violento e popolato da cholos, delinquenti e spacciatori, se anche Yuliana, la macabra e tenera erede al trono di un signore della droga, nella sua sierra non può smettere di combattere per stare a galla. E se la sua migliore amica Regina è costretta a pagare caro il suo desiderio di avere «un fidanzato trafficante, un buchón, uno che si vestisse firmato e non andasse da Zara e che, come animali domestici, non avesse dei gatti Sphynx ma dei leoni». Ma quando tutto manca, c’è sempre la magia: «la migliore strega della regione» offre i propri servigi attraverso la sua pagina Facebook, e tratta con il diavolo per impedire ai cani del vicino di saltare la recinzione e buttarsi nel suo patio a fare i propri bisogni.
Le «bastarde disperate» di de la Cerda condividono le difficoltà e i pericoli legati al solo fatto di nascere donne, e si confrontano con le risorse che la vita offre loro, costrette, in una terra di nessuno, a distinguere da sole qual è il confine tra bene e male. Ognuna di queste donne ci colpisce dritto in faccia, non sapremmo dire se per la sua forza o per la sua fragilità. Mentre l’autrice ci malmena, noi siamo felici. Ridiamo. Perché la scrittura è delicata, ironica nonostante tutto. Perché l’umorismo serpeggia tra narco-socialite, killer prezzolati, corridos messicani e influencer in cerca di like.

«Della faccenda estetica me ne sono occupata: a ventidue anni ho già all’attivo un fottio di operazioni chirurgiche. Tutto quello che vedi è operato perché è chiaro che a me i soldi non mancano. Ha pagato tutto il mio fidanzato. Siamo stati a Dubai, in Francia, Egitto, Canada, Giappone e altri cinquanta paesi che ormai non ricordo. Trovi le mie foto su Instagram. Sempre in prima classe, a fare shopping, con eccesso di lusso. Il mio fidanzato è uno splendido. L’unica cosa che non mi ha dato, e che per me era la più importante, è la testa di quel figlio di puttana che ha ucciso la mia amica.»
«Un monumento alla letteratura trasgressiva, forte, delicata, romantica, dolorosa.» Gerardo Lima Molina
«Un piccolo grande caso editoriale.» El País]]> 176 Dahlia de la Cerda 8828212136 Sara 0 to-read 3.94 2019
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]]> 136786546 315 Cristina Rivera Garza 8869983560 Sara 5 4.20 2021
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average rating: 4.20
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]]> 7881201 291 Kazuo Ishiguro 8806190458 Sara 5 3.76 2005
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]]> 219515761 80 Carmen de Burgos Sara 4 feminism 3.00
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Attraverso un viaggio personale, storico e filosofico, l’autore mostra come dietro l’idea di normalità si nasconda spesso un vero e proprio tentativo di emarginazione sistematica di chi non risulta conforme agli standard prescritti come normali. Dalla creazione statistica dell’“uomo medio” di Adolphe Quetelet all’eugenetica di Francis Galton e al darwinismo sociale di Herbert Spencer, Fabrizio Acanfora racconta la storia sorprendente di una normalità prescrittiva che ancor oggi minaccia la nostra convivenza. Un’attenzione particolare viene dedicata al concetto di disabilità: un tempo trattata come castigo divino, come curiosità da esibire o mostruosità da nascondere, con la modernità la disabilità diventa un “errore”, un peso sociale, un’esclusione dalla vita “normale” di quanti riescono ad allinearsi ai nuovi, rigidi standard lavorativi. Questo libro non è tuttavia solo un racconto delle figure e delle teorie che hanno segnato in negativo la vita di tante persone, ma anche un appello alla cooperazione e alla convivenza, affinché tutti e tutte possano ancora riscoprire e mettere a frutto la ricchezza delle diversità.]]> 176 Fabrizio Acanfora Sara 5 Letto per l'incontro con il gruppo di lettura ]]> 4.00
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Grazie all'autore per aver restituito centralità a temi quali la coscienza di classe e la cooperazione.
Letto per l'incontro con il gruppo di lettura
]]> 229039106 Già, ma quali sono davvero queste condizioni?
Sembra che nessuno si sia mai preso la briga di approfondirle, eppure basta poco per accorgersi che molto spesso sono precariato diffuso, diritti azzerati, stipendi da fame, montagne di false
promesse, e soprattutto scarsissime (per non dire nulle) possibilità di ambire a un futuro sereno e indipendente.
Sulla scorta dell’attività di denuncia sui suoi articoli e seguitissimi canali social, Charlotte Matteini costruisce un libro che non è solo inchiesta sulla brutale realtà del mercato del lavoro in Italia, ma anche una guida per chiunque si trovi intrappolato nelle maglie burocratiche dei contratti irregolari, o per chi si affaccia ora al mondo del lavoro. Per dimostrare che, se gli italiani non hanno più voglia di lavorare, un motivo ben preciso forse c’è.]]> 202 Charlotte Matteini 883090516X Sara 0 to-read 4.50
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]]> 177455967
Soltanto uno come lui, senza niente da perdere, avrebbe accettato di partire da Milano alla volta dell’entroterra catanese per recuperare un amico finito in una presunta setta in cui si vive come negli anni Novanta. La setta esiste davvero, all’interno di una masseria abbandonata, ed è guidata da Zan, un uomo ambiguo e magnetico convinto di aver compreso la Verità dopo un lavoro da incubo come moderatore di una piattaforma. Leo rimane alla masseria per tre mesi, ma si accorge di Cloro solo quando lei gli chiede un passaggio per Milano. Inizia così il loro viaggio in auto dalla Sicilia alla Lombardia, sedici ore previste che si dilatano in cinque giorni, attraverso varie tappe in città e paesini dalle atmosfere sempre più surreali, perché l’Italia sta per entrare in lockdown. Leo e Cloro, che non potrebbero essere più diversi, durante il viaggio ricostruiscono le loro vite e le ragioni che li hanno portati alla masseria, discutono, si fraintendono, si allontanano e si avvicinano di nuovo, più simili di quanto entrambi siano disposti ad accettare.

Con Doveva essere il nostro momento, Eleonora C. Caruso continua un percorso ideale iniziato con Le ferite originali e proseguito con Tutto chiuso tranne il cielo per consegnarci il suo romanzo più stratificato e compiuto. Attraverso i suoi formidabili personaggi mette in scena le paure, i desideri e i fallimenti di due generazioni, sempre sul punto di afferrare il senso – che continuamente sfugge – della propria esistenza nel mondo, a cui aggrapparsi quando ogni cosa sembra scivolare verso la rovina.]]> 396 Eleonora C. Caruso 8804761067 Sara 0 to-read 3.82
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]]> 202747588 Have you ever felt unheard by your doctor? Been frustrated that they haven't understood your symptoms, that they have neglected your concerns?

When Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan was admitted to hospital as a patient she didn't receive the pain medication that she told them she needed, despite her having been a doctor for 20 years. It was in that moment she understood that something was deeply wrong with our healthcare system. Doctors aren't listening, and it is making us ill.

In Unheard, Dr Dhairyawan takes us on a journey through history to show how not listening to patients has been ingrained in medicine from its inception. Western medicine has been built on the assumption that power should always lie with the doctor, and that patients should be powerless to decisions made about their body if it is done to make them well. This, alongside the prejudices of society, has led to dramatic gaps in medical knowledge because for centuries people have not been heard.

Dr Dhairyawan offers a way to reshape our health system for a future where active and engaged listening is the new frontier in a timely, shocking and engaging exposé of the medical world.]]> 262 Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan 1398718718 Sara 0 to-read 4.28
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«Un libro luminoso. Enhebra una búsqueda preciosa para narrar de forma única y diferente todo aquello que nos atraviesa y nos duele». María Sánchez

Mientras su madre muere de cáncer en una ciudad del norte, la narradora hace el amor con una mujer en un hotel de Barcelona. Tiene un vuelo para visitar a su madre la mañana siguiente, pero ya llegará tarde. Poco después, su amante desaparece de forma brusca y definitiva. Cuando su pareja vuelve de Londres para instalarse con ella en un pequeño apartamento junto al mar, esta intenta ser la calma que sostenga la angustia de un cuerpo que llora a una madre y anhela a una amante.

«Amar es amar siempre después de mi madre. No puedo hablar con mamá, tampoco con Ella. Mi vida se ha suspendido con la interrupción de esas dos conversaciones». La autora retoma ese diálogo en este libro para indagar en las aristas del abandono y el anhelo y tratar de entender a una madre que marcó la vida y las maneras de su hija con su arrolladora forma de amar.

El debut narrativo de la premiada poeta Sara Torres conjuga lirismo y honestidad para navegar el duelo, el amor y el deseo, su búsqueda y su pérdida. El resultado de la travesía es un mapa de las grietas que nos hacen humanos; una invitación a acariciar sin miedo los surcos que nos conforman.]]> 224 Sara Torres 8417910964 Sara 0 to-read 3.93 2022
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]]> 16113994 222 Hilary Mantel 8806172158 Sara 4 illness-narratives [Lo so, non è una recensione, serve a me come appunto]]]> 3.91 2003
author: Hilary Mantel
name: Sara
average rating: 3.91
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Credo sia il primo memoir ad aver affrontato il tema dell’endometriosi e le sue ramificazioni, in particolare l’inadeguatezza del personale medico-sanitario nell’approcciarsi al dolore femminile (diagnosi psichiatriche in presenza di sintomi fisici impattanti, terapie errate, ritardo diagnostico, paternalismo medico, ecc.).
[Lo so, non è una recensione, serve a me come appunto]
]]> 202541818 Przekonaj się, jaki krzyk wydaje wyparta z historii sztuki kobiecość.

Czy słyszysz to wołanie?

Sonia Kisza przywołuje znane i mniej znane obrazy i rzeźby, by pokazać je w świeżym, buntowniczym świetle. Przedziera się przez tomy starych podręczników, przez tysiące lat fałszywych przekonań, przez wieki propagandy i metry kurzu. Robi to, żeby dotrzeć do ukrytych znaczeń sztuki europejskiej. Sztuki związanej z kobietami, z zapomnianym światem naszych przodkiń.

Histeria sztuki to drogowskaz, JAK CZYTAĆ OBRAZY, to zbiór świadectw kobiet, bogiń i herosek, które kultura skazała na tortury, a potem zgubiła znaczenie ich dorobku.

Dowiedz się:
- Jak to się stało, że na fasadach setek chrześcijańskich kościołów pojawia się postać ostentacyjnie pokazująca swoją wulwę?
- Dlaczego wrocławski Ołtarz Świętej Barbary z 1447 roku przedstawia scenę gwałtu zbiorowego?
- Czy Bóg ma macicę?
- Skąd wiemy, że w średniowieczu żyły osoby transpłciowe?
- Co chcą osiągnąć w świecie sztuki przebrane za gorylice aktywistki?

Poznaj na nowo Meduzę, Ewę, Maryję, Dafne i Prozerpinę, ale także Joannę d’Arc, Chrystusa i Świętego Sebastiana. Zrzuć z piedestału artystów geniuszy. Dowiedz się, czy rzeczywiście kobiety nie były wielkimi malarkami. Zobacz, że ludzie w przeszłości wcale nie byli tacy pruderyjni, jak się nam wmawia.

Wsłuchaj się uważnie w niemy krzyk obrazów.
Kto wie, może poznasz prawdę?]]> 256 Sonia Kisza 8324094032 Sara 0 to-read 4.29 2024
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]]> 228238899 203 Valeria Locati 8835740967 Sara 0 to-read 3.90
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]]> 223927246 Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death in this unforgettable story of grief, identity, and the complexities of family.

The three Blue sisters are exceptional—and exceptionally different. Avery, the eldest and a recovering heroin addict turned strait-laced lawyer, lives with her wife in London; Bonnie, a former boxer, works as a bouncer in Los Angeles following a devastating defeat; and Lucky, the youngest, models in Paris while trying to outrun her hard-partying ways. They also had a fourth sister, Nicky, whose unexpected death left Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky reeling. A year later, as they each navigate grief, addiction, and ambition, they find they must return to New York to stop the sale of the apartment they were raised in.

But coming home is never as easy as it seems. As the sisters reckon with the disappointments of their childhood and the loss of the only person who held them together, they realize the greatest secrets they've been keeping might not have been from each other, but from themselves.]]> 368 Coco Mellors 0593723783 Sara 0 to-read 3.91 2024
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]]> 180633958 THE FINAL BOOK FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST WRITERS

In addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. “Ink is a generative fluid,” she explains. “If you don’t mean your words to breed consequences, don’t write at all.” A Memoir of My Former Self collects the finest of this writing over four decades.

Her subjects are wide-ranging, sharply observed, and beautifully rendered. She discusses nationalism and her own sense of belonging; our dream life popping into our conscious life; the mythic legacy of Princess Diana; the many themes that feed into her novels—revolutionary France, psychics, Tudor England; and other novelists, from Jane Austen to V.S. Naipaul. She writes about her father and the man who replaced him; she writes fiercely and heartbreakingly about the battles with her health that she endured as a young woman, and the stifling years she found herself living in Saudi Arabia. Here, too, is her legendary essay “Royal Bodies,” on our endless fascination with the current royal family.

From her unusual childhood to her all-consuming interest in Thomas Cromwell that grew into the Wolf Hall trilogy, A Memoir of My Former Self reveals the shape of Hilary Mantel’s life in her own luminous words, through “messages from people I used to be.” Filled with her singular wit and wisdom, it is essential reading from one of our greatest writers.]]> 419 Hilary Mantel 1250342228 Sara 0 to-read 4.26 2023
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]]> 8759528 176 Susanna Basso 8861593275 Sara 5 translation-studies 4.26 2010
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]]> 97064740 0 Unknown Author 8857567443 Sara 0 to-read 0.0
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]]> 229097452

Per gran parte della storia umana il mare ha suscitato una sensazione la paura. Persino in un posto come il Mediterraneo centrale, dove Europa e Africa si guardano a poca distanza. La storia di questo pezzo di mondo, di un mare che può essere un ponte ma anche una barriera invalicabile, dice molto di noi. Dagli uomini preistorici che dalle sue sponde osservavano quelle acque oscure e minacciose senza mai trovare il coraggio di attraversarle, alle popolazioni che per prime intagliarono un tronco e lo misero in acqua; dai mercanti di ossidiana e i loro riti perduti, alle misteriose civiltà dell'età del bronzo; e le conquiste degli imperi, le scorribande dei pirati, i flussi migratori che da nord andavano verso sud, come gli italiani che furono spediti in Libia dal regime fascista, o quelli che da sud vanno verso nord, come le migliaia di persone che oggi si affidano a traversate rischiosissime in cerca di una nuova vita o anche solo della sopravvivenza. Luca Misculin fa un vero e proprio carotaggio storico, raccontando la stratificazione di popoli, uomini e miti che si sono succeduti nel corso dei secoli. E allo stesso tempo racconta il Mediterraneo di oggi, le sue isole e i suoi porti, i suoi uccelli migratori e i cavi sottomarini che lo attraversano, i suoi luoghi piú inaccessibili, come basi militari abbandonate o piattaforme petrolifere. Muovendosi fra le coste libiche e tunisine, Pantelleria e Linosa fino a Lampedusa, Misculin ci fa conoscere un mare tutt'altro che nostrum, mostrandoci il Mediterraneo come fosse la prima volta, con tutte le sue contraddizioni, la sua severa spietatezza, la sua straordinaria profondità storica e umana.]]> 290 Luca Misculin 8858448081 Sara 0 to-read 4.51
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]]> 199575194 197 Silvia Camporesi 8860449871 Sara 5 4.14
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]]> 222708511 Immagina di trovarti in ospedale e non avere la lingua per comunicare né capire cosa ti dicono. Lì, a portarti via dall'incubo e tradurre il tuo dolore è l'interprete medico! Ecco, questo libro è la straordinaria avventura di pazienti e medici, di ponti fatti di parole tra diagnosi, cure e speranze.»
Roberto Saviano

Negli Stati Uniti, quando in ospedale arriva un paziente straniero, interviene subito un interprete specializzato. È fondamentale, infatti, che il malato comprenda bene ciò che gli viene comunicato, ed è altrettanto cruciale che i medici capiscano senza esitazioni le sue risposte. La comunicazione medico-paziente è parte integrante della terapia, il cui esito può dipendere anche dalle parole dette, comprese o fraintese.
Linda De Luca è una traduttrice specializzata in terminologia medica, a lungo impiegata come interprete negli ospedali di New York. Mestiere affascinante, il suo, ma emotivamente costoso, che per anni l’ha portata a confrontarsi con storie toccanti e in grado di lasciare un segno profondo. De Luca presta la sua voce e le sue competenze linguistiche ai pazienti, e attraverso il racconto di casi vissuti in prima persona riesce a far emergere con maestria tutta l’ambiguità della traduzione e del rapporto con il dolore, dipingendo affreschi che si trasformano in piccole perle di letteratura.
Così questo libro breve e intenso racconta anno dopo anno, reparto dopo reparto, storie vere, narrate con estrema sensibilità. Si passa da episodi straordinari, come quello in cui si ritrova in sala operatoria mentre un neurochirurgo opera il cervello di un paziente sveglio che deve rispondere a comandi precisi, a momenti persino più gravosi, come quelli in cui è chiamata a tradurre ai familiari – figli, genitori, fratelli – la diagnosi di una malattia.
Incubatore di storie ed emozioni, questo libro è un viaggio che fa tappa in terre distanti tra loro, ma con un denominatore la volontà di affrontare un tema come il dolore senza la paura di uscirne feriti o compromessi, ma anzi con la certezza di trovarvi uno strumento di sensibilizzazione per la riscoperta di sé e degli altri.
]]> 160 Linda De Luca 8833944115 Sara 0 to-read 4.50
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]]> 221088294 femminile cominciassimo a ragionare di letteratura femminista?
In Scrivere femminista, Azélie Fayolle non solo demolisce le certezze del canone maschile, ma ipotizza un vero e proprio canone alternativo composto da una costellazione di autrici nelle cui opere l’intento femminista diventa la premessa di un percorso di presa di coscienza individuale e collettiva. Dal rape & revenge al body horror, dai fantasmi al fantastico, le parole di scrittrici come Virginia Woolf e Annie Ernaux dialogano con i manifesti incendiari di Valerie Solanas e Virginie Despentes, ma anche con le utopie di Monique Wittig e Ursula Le Guin. Scrivere femminista risponde all’oppressione patriarcale costruendo una narrazione altra in cui esplodono la rabbia, la ribellione e la risata; un coro di voci che inventa una lingua e uno stile capaci di propagare lo sguardo femminista in letteratura.]]> 172 Azélie Fayolle 8880562622 Sara 0 to-read 3.59 2023
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]]> 61360567 — The New Yorker

“Wells writes empathetically into the void.”
— The New Republic

“Gorgeously written and brilliantly argued, A Matter of Appearance uses chronic illness as a lever to investigate the life of a body. It’s complex, inconclusive, and incredibly clear-eyed. Moving fluidly between histories of psychoanalysis, desire, ambition, and pathology, Wells reminds us of the liminal state we all live in between sickness and health.”
— Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia and Summer of Hate

"A Matter of Appearance is what the genre of 'sick lit' is missing: Wells ties up the loose ends between the rich history of hysteria, consumption, and modern stories of autoimmunity, while resisting the maudlin. Absolutely dazzling."
— Lena Dunham, author of Not That Kind of Girl

“A Matter of Appearance brilliantly gives language to the body, and measures the distance between the kinds of narratives that tend to be projected onto women’s bodies and the stories these bodies are actually telling. Perceptive, fascinating, superb.”
— Lauren Elkin, author of Flâneuse and Art Monsters

A dazzling memoir of chronic illness that explores the fraught intersection between pain, language, and gender, a debut author.

Emily Wells, a former ballerina, spent her childhood dancing through intense, whole-body pain she assumed was normal for someone used to pushing her body to its limits. For years, no doctor could tell Wells what was wrong with her, or they told her it was “all in her head.” It was only in college that she learned the name for the illness she had been suffering from all her life: Behcet’s Disease, a rare congenital disorder causing blood vessel inflammation throughout the body, arthritis, and swelling of the brain.

In A Matter of Appearance, Wells, now a professor of creative writing at UC Irvine, traces her journey as she tries to understand and define this specific and personal pain, internally and externally. She draws on the critical works of Freud, Sontag, and others to explore the intersection between gender, pain, and language, tracing a line from the “hysteria patients” documented at the Salpêtrière Hospital in nineteenth-century Paris through to the contemporary New Age healers of Los Angeles and beyond. At the crux of this is the dilemma of how to express in words an experience that is both private and public, subjective, and quantifiable.

A work of crystalline beauty and razorlike insight, A Matter of Appearance introduces a much needed millennial voice to the literature of illness.]]> Emily Wells Sara 5 illness-narratives, salute 4.19 2023
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]]> 229056921 396 Armanda Guiducci Sara 0 to-read 4.25
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]]> 58537332 In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing.

In this revolutionary book, renowned physician Gabor Maté eloquently dissects how in Western countries that pride themselves on their healthcare systems, chronic illness and general ill health are on the rise. Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug; more than half take two. In Canada, every fifth person has high blood pressure. In Europe, hypertension is diagnosed in more than 30 percent of the population. And everywhere, adolescent mental illness is on the rise. So what is really “normal” when it comes to health?

Over four decades of clinical experience, Maté has come to recognize the prevailing understanding of “normal” as false, neglecting the roles that trauma and stress, and the pressures of modern-day living, exert on our bodies and our minds at the expense of good health. For all our expertise and technological sophistication, Western medicine often fails to treat the whole person, ignoring how today’s culture stresses the body, burdens the immune system, and undermines emotional balance. Now Maté brings his perspective to the great untangling of common myths about what makes us sick, connects the dots between the maladies of individuals and the declining soundness of society—and offers a compassionate guide for health and healing. Co-written with his son Daniel, The Myth of Normal is Maté’s most ambitious and urgent book yet.]]> 576 Gabor Maté 0593083881 Sara 0 to-read 4.30 2022
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]]> 211828850 84 David Howes 1009329677 Sara 0 to-read 0.0
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]]> 214268998 An exploration of the connection between anxiety and the body by a clinical psychologist, drawing from the latest research as well as historical and cultural insights through time, arguing that only through understanding anxiety’s role in our lives can we transform it into resilience

Almost all of us are intimately familiar with anxiety, and with its increasing hold on our minds, our hopes and plans, and our bodies. But how well do we really understand it, and what can we do to transform it into something new—into resilience, or courage, or creativity?

In this extraordinary book, Dr. Alexandra Shaker, a clinical psychologist, takes us on a journey through the body—from brain to blood to heart to guts—to examine the connections between our emotional, psychological, and physical lives. She unravels what the body can teach us about anxiety, and what we can learn from our long cultural history of the anxious impulse.

Melding psychology, neuroscience, history, and literature, she considers why—despite all the checklists and therapies and scientific advancements—we are still struggling to outrun our oldest terrors, and how a new approach accepting anxiety as part of the human condition can help build resilience.]]> 288 Alexandra Shaker 0593493400 Sara 0 to-read 4.00
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]]> 228209531 180 Barbara Di Gregorio Sara 0 to-read 3.92
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]]> 208520193 240 Sally King 1447371623 Sara 0 to-read 5.00
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]]> 211264445 152 Eleonora Marocchini Sara 5 4.19 2024
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]]> 228924679 Alix Garin Sara 0 to-read 4.58 2024
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]]> 218384193 Quando perdiamo il filo del discorso e ci troviamo di fronte all’angoscia di una mancanza, di una perdita, di un’omissione, non possiamo non pensare al perché, laddove lo spazio dovrebbe essere pieno, ci sia al contrario uno spazio vuoto. Perdere il filo del discorso genera domande, ci pone di fronte alla necessità di comprendere su che base effettuiamo le nostre scelte linguistiche quotidiane, al bisogno di capire perché selezioniamo alcune parole mentre ne scartiamo altre. Perdere il filo ci consente di esplorare un silenzio denso, generativo, di portare a galla questioni che riguardano il modo in cui parliamo, scriviamo, traduciamo.]]> 160 Laura Fontanella Sara 5 feminism, translation-studies 4.67
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]]> 61037056
Commovente e feroce, esilarante e tragico, Che razza di libro! è la storia di un bambino che vede nell'invisibilità una promessa di vita, e di un uomo che vorrebbe uscire dalla propria pelle, per nascondersi dalla violenza. Jason Mott mette a nudo discriminazione e pregiudizio, mostrandoci la possibilità di un mondo dove il colore non è più un confine.

Questo libro è per chi ha inventato un pianeta senza nome, un luogo felice dove riconoscersi e sentirsi finalmente a casa.]]> 320 Jason Mott Sara 5 3.98 2021
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]]> 205818288  
In Exposed, noted historian Wendy Kline uncovers the procedure’s fascinating—and often disturbing—history. From gynecological research on enslaved women’s bodies to nonconsensual practice on anesthetized patients, the pelvic exam as we know it today carries the burden of its sordid past. Its story is one of pain and pleasure, life-saving discoveries and heartbreaking encounters, questionable procedures and triumphant breakthroughs.  Drawing on previously unpublished archival sources, along with interviews with patients, providers, and activists, Kline traces key moments and movements in gynecological history, from the surgeons of the nineteenth century to the OB/GYNs of today.   
 
This powerful book reminds us that the pelvic exam is has never been “just” a medical procedure, and that we can no longer afford to let the pelvic exam remain unexamined.]]> 286 Wendy Kline 1509552669 Sara 0 to-read 4.50 2024
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]]> 218691999 144 Francesco Trento Sara 5 4.48
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Non ho tempo per fare una recensione, metto cinque stelline e vado a scrivere il saggio su cui sto lavorando. Forse prima mi mangio un gelato...
]]> 195522437 240 Margaret Price 1478026138 Sara 0 to-read 4.45
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]]> 76149581
Don’t panic—Mercury Stardust, AKA The Trans Handy Ma’am is here to help!

For too many people, the simple act of contacting a plumber or repair person can feel like a game of chance. As a transwoman and a professional maintenance technician, Mercury Stardust has discovered (the hard way) that we live in a world with much to fear. If you've ever felt panicked about opening your home to strangers in order to fix a maintenance issue, this book is for you.

Renting a home can be a complex process—from finding a safe and affordable space, to hiring help for moving in and out, and of course, managing any repairs that come up during your stay.

You deserve to feel empowered to take matters into your own hands—and it’s not as hard as you might think. In this book, Mercury will show you how to tackle the projects that need improvement in your home—from how to properly fix a clog in your bathroom sink and safely hang things on your walls to patching small and medium drywall holes.

Safe and Sound

Remember—a little bit of knowledge can go a long way toward making you feel more safe and in control of your own life.]]> 224 Mercury Stardust 0744079071 Sara 0 to-read 4.77
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]]> 219374529 An examination of hysterectomy and the struggle for bodily and reproductive autonomy

At least one hysterectomy is performed every minute of the year, making it the most common gynecological surgery worldwide. By the age of sixty-five, one out of five people born with a uterus will have it removed. So, why do we seldom talk about this surgery? Highly performed yet overlooked, examining the paradox of hysterectomy begins to unravel the various problems with how we medically treat uteruses and the people who have them.

Get It Out weaves centuries of medical history with rich qualitative data from 100 women, trans men, and nonbinary people who had, want, or are considering hysterectomy. In compelling detail, Andréa Becker reveals how America’s healthcare system routinely deprives people of the ability to control their own bodies along race and gender lines. When people ask for a hysterectomy, they are often met with Are you sick enough? Old enough? Have you had enough babies? Will you regret this? How will your future husband feel about this? Yet this pushback is not equally experienced. While some people are barred access, others are ushered toward a hysterectomy. These contradictory recommendations reveal the persistent biases entrenched within healthcare.

Get It Out interrogates how little choice people with uteruses ultimately have over their reproductive health, and explores what these “choices” signify amid interlocking systems of inequality.]]> 208 Andrea Becker 147982660X Sara 0 to-read 4.23
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]]> 56354
Starting with women in pre-history the author looks beyond the myth of ‘Man the Hunter’ to reveal women’s central role in the survival and evolution of the human race. She follows their progress from the days when God was a woman through to the triumphs of the Amazons and Assyrian war queens: she looks at the rise of organised religion and the growing oppression of women: she charts the long slow struggle for women’s rights culminating in the twentieth century women’s movements: and finally she presents a vision of women breaking free.

This brilliant and absorbing book turns the spotlight on the hidden side of history to present a fascinating new view of the world, overturning our preconceptions to restore women to their rightful place at the centre of the worldwide story of revolution, empire, war and peace.

Spiced with tales of individual women who have shaped history, celebrating the work and lives of the unsung female millions, distinguished by a wealth of research, The Women’s History of the World redefines the concept of historical reality.]]> 352 Rosalind Miles 0609806955 Sara 0 to-read 3.82 1989
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]]> 133388212 384 Elizabeth Wayland Barber 132407602X Sara 0 to-read 4.48 1994
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]]> 163876937 197 Jessica Mariana Masucci Sara 0 to-read 3.46
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]]> 219126247 244 María Galindo Sara 0 to-read 4.27
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]]> 2129197 272 Sibilla Aleramo 8807810360 Sara 4 3.92 1906
author: Sibilla Aleramo
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]]> 224011712 – słyszą kobiety chorujące na endometriozę od swojego otoczenia.
„Taka jest twoja uroda”
– mówią im lekarze.

Panuje przekonanie, że cierpienie jest wpisane w kobiecość. Bóle miesiączkowe, porodowe – ot, taka kobieca natura. Nic się z tym nie da zrobić. Tak jest stworzony świat. A ta, która się na to nie zgadza, słyszy, że histeryzuje, dramatyzuje i przesadza.

Paraliżujący ból, który uniemożliwia normalne funkcjonowanie.
Obfite miesiączki, których nie da się zastopować.
Choroba, którą trudno zdiagnozować.
Leczenie, które się szpitalom nie opłaca.
Błędy lekarskie, za które nikt nie chce wziąć odpowiedzialności.
System leczenia, który nie istnieje.

Prawie milion Polek cierpi na endometriozę. Potworny ból nie pozwala im normalnie żyć. Latami odbijają się od drzwi gabinetów lekarskich, próbując uzyskać właściwą diagnozę. Nie wierzy się w ich ból, bagatelizuje się go, a potem niewłaściwie i nieudolnie leczy. Tylko dlatego, że są kobietami.

Magda Łucyan i Katarzyna Górniak, dziennikarki TVN-u, w rozmowach z endopacjentkami i lekarzami odkrywają prawdziwy obraz choroby, która jest w Polsce tak bezwstydnie ignorowana. Dobitnie pokazują, że cierpienie nie jest czyjąkolwiek urodą.]]> 320 Magda Łucyan 8324090622 Sara 0 to-read 4.65 2025
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]]> 212923988 From the bestselling author of Everything Fat Loss, Fat Loss Habits is a myth-busting, action-focused guide that will transform your relationship with food for good.

Good habits are powerful. Repeated actions bring about change one step at a time, and help us ensure that these changes become part of our lives. But when it comes to fat loss, too often the focus is on bad habits. We've all heard that snacking between meals, stress eating and mid-week takeaways won't help us lose weight— but that doesn't make it easier to stop doing these things. On top of this, we're constantly bombarded with articles and videos telling us why certain foods are bad, or toxic, or poison. This makes the search for basic nutrition advice almost impossible, and it's not surprising that so many people feel confused about what to eat.

Ben Carpenter is a fitness coach, research nerd, and trusted source of no bullshit fat loss information who has spent his entire adult life working in the fitness industry, researching the real science and studies behind fat loss, and answering questions with simplified, unbiased answers.

Ben's point is The best weight loss diet doesn't exist.

From keto to intermittent fasting, no diet is superior. They all work in the short term, but are rarely sustainable for the long term, nor is it a good idea to be on a weight loss diet forever. The better solution is to maintain stronger, positive motivators that make us want to stay healthy; the easiest way to do this is through simple, effective habits.

To help readers achieve true health, Ben offers a three-step

understanding the science unveiling the fat loss options available choosing what habits work for you Let's say goodbye to specific diet plans and products, and hello to implementing sustainable fat loss habits, based on our own personal preferences.]]> 304 Ben Carpenter 1538768658 Sara 0 to-read 4.41
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]]> 202322764 127 Alice Scornajenghi 8880562398 Sara 0 to-read 3.73
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]]> 12693413
Il secondo romanzo di Sibilla Aleramo, giunto a tredici anni dal suo discusso esordio Una donna, ripercorre alcuni eventi salienti della vita dell’autrice, la poliedrica figura paterna, la violenza subita e il matrimonio riparatore, la scelta necessaria quanto dolorosa di abbandonare il figlio per trovare se stessa. Ma accantona gli aspetti sociali tanto presenti nell’opera prima, per sviscerare stati d’animo e sentimenti, per confessarsi e testimoniare la centralità dell’amore nella sua vita come nelle sue opere. “Affermo me a me stessa: null’altro, null’altro! Oh, ma affermo tutto ciò di cui mi compongo, tutto che mi sta attorno e ch’io assorbo! Nulla va perduto. E quando anelo ad essere amata è ancora il mio amore per tutte le cose che chiede di venir riconosciuto, è il mondo che vuol essere abbracciato e cantato.”
Scrive Bruna Conti nella Postfazione: “Il passaggio è una rievocazione lirica nella quale si frantuma l’elemento narrativo, per permettere al documento di diventare canto, prosa poetica. […] Le vicende non vengono stravolte – anzi continuamente ne viene rivendicata l’autenticità e affermata la verità – ma si dilatano, grazie alla tensione lirica che Sibilla estorce a esse.”]]> 120 Sibilla Aleramo 8807815885 Sara 0 to-read 3.62 1919
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]]> 216933694 256 Jenny Bergenmar 1350421170 Sara 0 to-read 0.0
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]]> 208933038 The Agency of Access examines how access can be employed as a methodology for curating art exhibitions using a multi-sensorial approach. Crip curator and art historian Amanda Cachia illustrates how bodies take in information and process stimuli, making the inequities in museums and galleries more transparent. She also argues that, as contemporary disabled artists move away from representations of disability, they create an art of access, or access aesthetics, through works that center translation, sensory expansion, touch, and movement for audiences and offer an experience of “being with” disability.



Showcasing artwork by contemporary disabled artists Corban Walker, Christine Sun Kim, and Carmen Papalia, among others, The Agency of Access inscribes contemporary disability art in the broad canon of contemporary art, where the artistic past is regarded differently.



Cachia is an outspoken advocate for artists living with sensory disabilities. She understands disabled artists’ experiences in both the world and the gallery. The artists she has curated make bold, astonishing, and compelling statements about interdependency, care, and the ways in which our environment affects disabled, ill, and immunocompromised bodies.]]> 307 Amanda Cachia 1439926239 Sara 0 to-read 3.67
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]]> 219834349 318 Annalisa Murgia 1032405627 Sara 0 to-read 0.0
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]]> 208931300 An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family—but especially love—from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.

Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.

Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.]]> 454 Sally Rooney 0374602638 Sara 0 DNF 3.84 2024
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]]> 222485601 Kamil e Beatrice, sedici e diciassette anni, tornano in Italia dalla madre dopo un anno in Polonia, dal padre. Kamil ha sentito la mancanza di Roma, la mancanza degli amici e della madre, Viola. Donna volubile, l’anno precedente ha fatto qualcosa di cui poi si è pentita, qualcosa per cui l’ex marito le ha tolto la custodia dei figli, ma adesso sembra pronta a riprendere in mano la propria vita. A Beatrice invece dell’Italia non mancava nulla, lei che a Roma non è mai stata capace di farsi delle amiche, innamorarsi. Ma l’adolescenza è un’età che riserva molte sorprese – amori, amicizie, rabbie – e tutto sta per cambiare. Kamil si rifugia nel branco, costretto a celare le sue fragilità, mostrare solo i muscoli. Beatrice si infatua per la prima volta, e di chi mai aveva trovato Nico. Odiato da Kamil, Nico ha trascorso alcuni mesi in galera per spaccio, sente che il destino che gli è stato cucito addosso, tutto dedito a droga e violenza, gli sta stretto. Ora vuole essere migliore per Beatrice, cambiare vita.
Giungere in Italia da esiliati politici, passare l’infanzia in un campo profughi, essere lo straniero. Spiechowicz ne ha fatto esperienza, ma in Mentre tutto brucia sono punti di partenza. Con stile misurato, allarga il campo d’indagine alla ricerca di sé stessi e al desiderio, che in adolescenza esplodono, ai rapporti famigliari e ai primi amori. L’estate di questo romanzo è il percorso necessario a consolidarsi come adulti.]]> Paulina Spiechowicz Sara 0 to-read 3.15
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]]> 6925661 166 Michela Murgia 8806197800 Sara 4 4.10 2009
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]]> 60096083 163 Laura Pezzino 8860046335 Sara 4 4.00 2022
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]]> 18480812 65 Natalia Ginzburg 880620484X Sara 0 to-read 3.62 1967
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]]> 1358541 Lessico famigliare è la storia di una famiglia ebrea, quella della stessa scrittrice, che si svolge a Torino fra gli anni Trenta e Cinquanta. Natalia, l'ultima dei cinque figli Levi, è la voce narrante. Con assoluto rispetto della verità, e, per certi versi, mantenendo l'incanto della fanciullezza, l'autrice non solo ripercorre con la memoria le vicende dei suoi cari, ma ne fissa per sempre anche il linguaggio (che, come sappiamo, è unico per ogni nucleo famigliare), i motti, le abitudini radicate.]]> 261 Natalia Ginzburg 8806151681 Sara 0 to-read 3.96 1963
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]]> 206318521 Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An honest and moving story of youth and friendship, Smith brings the same unique, lyrical quality to Just Kids as she has to the rest of her formidable body of work--from her influential 1975 album Horses to her visual art and poetry.]]> 262 Patti Smith 006621131X Sara 0 to-read 4.24 2010
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]]> 10620471 Dopo sei anni di terribili esperienze in altri ospedali psichiatrici, l’11 febbraio 1943 Antonin Artaud viene ricoverato a Rodez: è magrissimo, sporco, la barba lunga, privo della propria coscienza. in questa struttura, considerata all’avanguardia, il dottor Ferdière sottopone ripetutamente Artaud alla terapia dell’elettroshock. Ma lo psichiatra è anche assertore dell’arte-terapia, quindi spinge questo paziente recalcitrante e scomodo a cimentarsi con la traduzione di opere letterarie, per tentare, attraverso il recupero della parola, di ricomporre la sua personalità frammentata dalla schizofrenia.
Giorno dopo giorno Rodez diventerà così il tempo della fiducia ritrovata, della riappropriazione del proprio corpo e della propria personalità.
Questo volume raccoglie le traduzioni che Artaud fece durante il ricovero a Rodez e le lettere che sono la testimonianza diretta, prima di questo periodo, poi delle sue difficili condizioni di vita e di salute fra il 1947 e il 1948, quando la traduzione del VI capitolo di Attraverso lo specchio di Lewis Carroll, un’Alice tutta artaudiana, venne pubblicata.
L’inserto iconografico raccoglie fotografie dell'epoca e una scelta di disegni, in parte inediti in Italia, che Artaud realizzò in quegli anni.

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]]> 217066925 Senka Marić 8832298414 Sara 0 to-read 3.50
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]]> 206003761 0 Letizia Zampino Sara 4 feminism 4.00
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]]> 214152325 From a pioneering Black feminist and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, an urgent and exhilarating memoir-manifesto-handbook about how to rein in the excesses of cancel culture so we can truly communicate and solve problems together.

In 1979, Loretta Ross was a single mother who’d had to drop out of Howard University. She was working at Washington, DC’s Rape Crisis Center when she got a letter from a man in prison saying he wanted to learn how to not be a rapist anymore. At first, she was furious. As a survivor of sexual violence, she wanted to write back pouring out her rage. But instead, she made a different choice, a choice to reject the response her trauma was pushing her towards, a choice that set her on the path towards developing a philosophy that would come to guide her whole rather than calling people out, try to call even your unlikeliest allies in. Hold them accountable—but do so with love.

Calling In is at once a handbook, a manifesto, and a memoir—because the power of Loretta Ross’s message comes from who she is and what she’s lived through. She’s a Black woman who’s deprogrammed white supremacists, a survivor who’s taught convicted rapists the principles of feminism. With stories from her five remarkable decades in activism, she vividly illustrates why calling people in—inviting them into conversation instead of conflict by focusing on your shared values over a desire for punishment—is the more strategic choice if you want to make real change. And she shows you how to do so, whether in the workplace, on a college campus, or in your living room.

Courageous, awe-inspiring, and blisteringly authentic, Calling In is a practical new solution from one of our country’s most extraordinary change-makers—one anyone can learn to use to transform frustrating and divisive conflicts that stand in the way of real connection with the people in your life.]]> 288 Loretta Ross 1982190795 Sara 5 4.40
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(promemoria per ricordarmi di scrivere la recensione)
]]> 52603810 186 Alia Trabucco Zerán 8869982033 Sara 0 to-read 3.16 2015
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]]> 63335305 94 Claire Keegan 8806251635 Sara 0 to-read 3.81 2021
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]]> 56560279 192 Annie Ernaux Sara 5 4.27 1981
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]]> 277296
Sullo sfondo della guerra e della lotta partigiana, Alba de Céspedes compone un romanzo stupefacente per la varietà delle situazioni, l'esattezza dei ritratti, la ricchezza dei toni. Un sofisticato gioco di specchi dal quale emerge la presa di coscienza di una donna che, in un mondo sempre più dominato dagli uomini, riesce a trasformare la rassegnazione in ribellione.]]> Alba de Céspedes Sara 4 4.29 1949
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]]> 209238681 0 Virginia Cafaro Sara 4 4.20
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]]> 60382737
From the founder and creator of The Nap Ministry, Rest Is Resistance is a battle cry, a guidebook, a map for a movement, and a field guide for the weary and hopeful. It is rooted in spiritual energy and centered in Black liberation, womanism, somatics, and Afrofuturism. With captivating storytelling and practical advice, all delivered in Hersey's lyrical voice and informed by her deep experience in theology, activism, and performance art, Rest Is Resistance is a call to action and manifesto for those who are sleep deprived, searching for justice, and longing to be liberated from the oppressive grip of Grind Culture.]]> 224 Tricia Hersey 0316365211 Sara 4 4.05 2022
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]]> 211035306 191 Giulia Siviero Sara 5 feminism 4.34
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]]> 182099478
Why are so many women feeling anxious, stressed out, and depressed, and why are they not getting the help they need? Over the past decade, mood disorders have skyrocketed among women, who are twice as likely to be diagnosed as men. Yet in a healthcare system steeped in gender bias, women’s complaints are often dismissed, their normal emotions are pathologized, and treatments routinely fail to address the root causes of their distress. Women living at the crossroads of racial, economic, and other identities face additional barriers. How can we pinpoint what’s wrong with women’s mental health, and what needs to change?

In All in Her Head , science writer Misty Pratt embarks on a crucial investigation, painting a picture of a system that is failing women on multiple levels. Pratt, who shares her own history of mental illness, explores the stereotypes that have shaped how we understand and treat women’s distress, from the Ancient Greek concept of “hysteria” to today’s self-help solutions. Weaving together science and women’s personal stories, All in Her Head debunks mental health myths and challenges misconceptions, addressing the following
Pratt also tackles the thorny topic of medication, taking a nuanced and evidence-based approach. Women who present at their doctor’s office with depression, anxiety, or stress are often prescribed antidepressants as a first-line at least one in four American women are now taking these medications. Antidepressants have a real effect that can be helpful for some individuals; however, Pratt persuasively argues that our current approach ignores the underlying causes of most women’s depressive symptoms.

Today, a rising movement of women is demanding better when it comes to mental health treatment. Armed with the latest science, insight from those who have been through the therapeutic system, and enough humor to lighten the load, All in Her Head provides women with hope and courage to reframe and reclaim their mental health.]]> 336 Misty Pratt 1771649712 Sara 4 3.79
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]]> 223432557 Bad Sex traces the evolution of representations of sex on screen, from earlier portrayals of sex as glamorous or taboo, to more complex depictions of often awkward or painful experiences and feelings.

Jacqueline Gibbs, Billy Holzberg, and Aura Lehtonen examine the representation of sex and sexuality in contemporary English language drama and 'dramedy' shows like Fleabag (2016, 2019), Sex Education (2019-23), I May Destroy You (2020) and Euphoria (2019-), arguing that TV is where the politics of sexuality and gender is negotiated under the contemporary conditions of neoliberalism.

Through a cultural analysis of key television shows, they identify this shift as driven by the diversification of representations of sex and sexuality, as women, trans and non-binary, Black and minority ethnic, working-class and disabled TV professionals carve some space in a traditionally white, middle-class, cis male dominated industry. In doing so, they explore the affective potential and limits of 'bad' sex on our screens and what these representations can tell us about sexual politics and gender cultures today.]]> Billy Holzberg 1350418536 Sara 0 to-read 4.00
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«Magnifico e tremendo stava l’amore rielabora un caso di cronaca nera. Il 27 gennaio 2004, dopo circa vent’anni di violenza subita, Luciana uccide con dodici coltellate l’ex marito Domenico e, insieme al nuovo compagno, ne getta il corpo nel fiume Tevere. Il 24 giugno 1965 mia madre Lucia, dopo anni di violenza subita da parte del marito, getta sé stessa nel fiume Tevere, insieme al suo nuovo compagno, mio padre. Perché in quegli anni non esiste la legge sul divorzio. Il motivo della mia ossessione è fin troppo evidente. Ma la vicenda giudiziaria di Luciana si conclude con un provvedimento destinato a fare giurisprudenza. Mi è parso allora utile, anzi necessario, rintracciare negli atti processuali le motivazioni umane e legali di una sentenza tanto d’avanguardia. L’analisi della storia e dei suoi esiti ha finito per generare un libro che ha sorpreso per prima chi l’ha scritto, essendo diventata un’opera scorretta, che non assume esclusivamente il punto di vista della vittima, si chiede anzi chi dei due sia la vittima, quale patto leghi i protagonisti e in quale oscurità delle persone quel patto abbia radicato. Chi scrive, insomma, ha cercato di comprendere profondamente le ragioni della violenza. E forse, chissà, ha lavorato proprio per emanciparsi da uno sguardo semplice sulla violenza. Non c’è dunque condanna, ma esposizione, quando possibile poetica, di quel magnifico e tremendo amore».
Maria Grazia Calandrone]]> 336 Maria Grazia Calandrone 8806264036 Sara 0 to-read 4.02
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]]> 222503552 128 Andrea Bajani 885886235X Sara 0 to-read 3.55
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]]> 218478433 Una delle più note traduttrici di narrativa angloamericana contemporanea, in questo libro ci invita a esplorare il meraviglioso laboratorio della traduzione, in cui le regole incontrano la creatività e la grammatica si mescola con l'esperienza.
L'Intelligenza Artificiale sostituirà gli umani nell'attività così umana del rendere accessibili i capolavori della letteratura in altre lingue?



Silvia Pareschi è per i lettori italiani la 'voce' di autori come Jonathan Franzen ed Ernest Hemingway. Da molti anni racconta in incontri pubblici e in corsi professionali le regole e le pratiche della traduzione e, da ultimo, si è fatta portavoce delle istanze dei traduttori letterari nel dibattito sull'uso dell'Intelligenza Artificiale nei mestieri creativi.
In questo libro, in cui il racconto in prima persona degli incontri con grandi opere e grandi scrittori si alterna alla riflessione sulle regole e sulle difficoltà del tradurre, i lettori più appassionati potranno confrontarsi con tante domande che ogni romanzo da tradurre pone 'tra le righe': come si rendono i giochi di parole? Come si affronta il tema – anche politico – delle lingue ibride, prime tra tutte yinglish e spanglish? Come si ritraduce un classico? E ancora – per chi sogna di fare della traduzione un mestiere – come si diventa traduttori e quando si è buoni traduttori?
Dall'analisi del turpiloquio come palestra di traduzione letteraria alla riflessione sulla traduzione come lavoro comunitario e condiviso, dai consigli sulle residenze per traduttori all'irresistibile presa in giro dei limiti dell'Intelligenza Artificiale messa alla prova, i capitoli del libro affrontano tanti aspetti del mestiere e sono un inno a una delle attività che più ci rende sapere comunicare in tutte le sfumature che ogni lingua ci regala.]]> 144 Silvia Pareschi 8858156323 Sara 4 4.06
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]]> 62590161 182 Marcin Wicha 8833314456 Sara 0 to-read 3.30 2017
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]]> 49113591 Kissanristiäiset, kocie chrzciny, to pretekst do świętowania, muzyki, śpiewu. Finowie umieją imprezować i nie stronią od alkoholu, tak w towarzystwie, jak w samotności (to słynne fińskie "gaciopicie" w domu, na kanapie, w bieliźnie lub wyciągniętych dresach). Ale Małgorzata Sidz zaprasza nas nie tylko do zabawy – uchyla przed nami drzwi do fińskich domów, przedstawia fińskie rodziny, opowiada o fińskiej mentalności, o pracowitości i wyrozumiałości, alkoholizmie i samotności. Zabiera nas do domków letniskowych i do domów spokojnej starości. Pisze o historii, skomplikowanych relacjach z sąsiadami i o mniejszościach, ale też o Muminkach, Tove Jansson i saunach. Jej Finlandia to kraj wymykający się stereotypom, pełen sprzeczności i podziałów, wspaniały i trudny zarazem. Kraj lata i zimy.]]> 248 Małgorzata Sidz 8380499743 Sara 0 to-read 3.46 2020
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]]> 30655728 120 Giulia Selmi Sara 4 feminism 4.57
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]]> 221494780 Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession weaves together first-person narratives and case studies contributed from disabled archivists and disabled archives users, bringing critical perspectives and approaches to the archival profession. Contributed chapters span topics such as accessibility of archives and first-person experiences researching disability collections for disabled archives users; disclosure and accommodations and self-advocacy of disabled archivists; and processing and stewarding disability-related collections. Collectively, these works address the nuances of both disability and archives—critically drawing attention to the histories, present experiences, and future possibilities of the archival profession.]]> 728 Gracen Brilmyer 1634001494 Sara 0 to-read 5.00 2024
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]]> 218315553 "It’s Not Symptomatic. It’s Systemic," a powerful anthology from Sunday Mornings at the River that unravels the intricate layers of trauma, resilience, and the systemic forces that shape our lives. This compelling collection features voices from around the globe, each contributing raw, unfiltered poetry that confronts personal and societal injustices. With a foreword by Fran Proctor, this anthology is more than just poetry—it’s a call to action, urging readers to recognize and dismantle the structures that perpetuate suffering.

These poems traverse the landscapes of identity, loss, and healing, offering readers a profound exploration of the human condition. Whether it’s through poignant reflections on personal trauma or a critical examination of societal norms, each piece in this collection invites readers to engage with the deeper truths of our shared existence. "It’s Not Symptomatic. It’s Systemic" is a testament to the strength of the human spirit and the power of words to inspire change.]]> 160 Sunday Mornings at the River Sara 0 to-read 0.0
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Through 25 pieces, the writers of Moving Mountains offer a vision of nature that encompasses the close up, the microscopic, and the vast.

From a single falling raindrop to the enormity of the north wind, this is nature experienced wholly and acutely, written from the perspective of disabled and chronically ill authors.

Moving Mountains is not about overcoming or conquering, but about living with and connecting, shifting the reader’s attention to the things easily overlooked by those who move through the world untroubled by the body that carries them.]]> 288 Louise Kenward 1804440531 Sara 0 to-read 4.05 2023
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]]> 58395049 TRUE BIZ (adj./exclamation; American Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talk

True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is rocked when his baby sister is born hearing; and February, the headmistress, who is fighting to keep her school open and her marriage intact, but might not be able to do both. As a series of crises both personal and political threaten to unravel each of them, Charlie, Austin, and February find their lives inextricable from one another's—and changed forever.

This is a story of sign language and lip-reading, disability and civil rights, isolation and injustice, first love and loss, and, above all, great persistence, daring, and joy. Absorbing and assured, idiosyncratic and relatable, this is an unforgettable journey into the Deaf community and a universal celebration of human connection.]]> 386 Sara Nović 0593241509 Sara 0 to-read 4.06 2022
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]]> 223592277 The most comprehensive history of transgender medicine to date, as told by more than forty scholars, physicians, psychologists, and activists from trans, gender-diverse, and allied medical communities.

Arriving at a critical moment in the struggle for transgender rights, A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States takes an empathic approach to an embattled subject. Sweeping in scope and deeply personal in nature, this groundbreaking volume traces the development of transgender medicine across three centuries—centering the voices of transgender individuals, debunking myths about gender-affirming care, and empowering readers to grasp the complexities of this evolving field. More than forty contributors—including patients, advocates, physicians, psychologists, and scholars—weave an illuminating, sometimes surprising narrative of collaboration and conflict between trans people and the scientists who have studied and worked with them. An indispensable guide to understanding the current tumult surrounding trans health-care access in the United States, the volume underscores a crucial gender diversity is not a new phenomenon but an integral part of our shared human history.]]> 1161 Carolyn Wolf-Gould Sara 0 to-read 4.50
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