The Soul of a Woman

Resumen del libro

When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating, begins Isabel Allende. As a child, she watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children without resources or voice. Isabel became a fierce and defiant little girl, determined to fight for the life her mother couldn't have.

As a young woman coming of age in the late 1960s, she rode the first wave of feminism. Among a tribe of like-minded female journalists, she for the first time felt comfortable in her own skin, as they wrote with a knife between their teeth about women's issues. She has seen what has been accomplished by the movement in the course of her lifetime. And over the course of three passionate marriages, she has learned how to grow as a woman while having a partner, when to step away, and the rewards of embracing one's sexuality.

So what feeds the soul of all women and feminists today? To be safe, to be valued, to live in peace, to have their own resources, to be connected, to have control over their bodies and lives, and above all, to be loved. On all these fronts, there is much work to be done, and this book, Allende hopes, will light the torch of our daughters and granddaughters with mine. They will have to live for us, as we lived for our mothers, and carry on with the work still left to be finished.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Isabel Allendex{0026}lt;/B nació en Perú y se crio en Chile. Novelista, feminista y filántropa, es una de las escritoras más leídas en el mundo: ha vendido más de ochenta millones de ejemplares de sus libros en cuarenta y dos idiomas. Todos sus libros han sido aclamados por el público y la crítica, entre los que se incluyen x{0026}lt;I La casa de los espíritus, Eva Luna, Paula, La isla bajo el mar, Violetax{0026}lt;/I o x{0026}lt;I El viento conoce mi nombrex{0026}lt;/I . Además de su faceta como escritora, dedica gran parte de su tiempo a la lucha por los derechos humanos. Ha recibido quince doctorados honoris causa, fue incluida en el California Hall of Fame y ha sido galardonada tanto en los PEN Literary Awards, por sus logros durante su carrera, como en los premios Anisfield-Wolf, que reconocen a aquellos libros que han contribuido a la apreciación de la diversidad y el enriquecimiento cultural. En 2014, el presidente estadounidense Barack Obama la condecoró con la Medalla Presidencial de la Libertad, la mayor distinción civil; y en 2018 la National Book Foundation le otorgó la Medalla por la contribución destacada a las letras americanas, uno de los premios literarios más prestigiosos de Estados Unidos. Actualmente vive en California con su marido y sus perros.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P Puedes visitar su Web IsabelAllende.com o seguirla a través de Instagram AllendeIsabel, Facebook en Facebook.com/IsabelAllende y X (Twitter) IsabelAllende.x{0026}lt;/P