Eight readings in a feminist key for March 8

There will be no demonstrations in 2021 to celebrate International Women's Day today, but what the new year has brought is a good number of editorial proposals that celebrate the feminist struggle and women from many angles.

Books about women and their struggle for equality, memoirs, essays, and novels that raise these issues and place women and their dilemmas at the center have long since ceased to be an exception.

Nor would it be entirely fair to speak of a trend, it is rather a flood that does not stop and floods tables of news.

Here are eight of the latest proposals.

The Double X economy

Oxford professor Linda Scott had many projects behind her to try to improve the economic conditions of girls and women around the world, when she realized that what she was facing was something much bigger and more powerful than the specific cases she was dealing with. approach.

The core of his rigorous and entertaining study in which he has invested 20 years is that "equal economic treatment would put an end to some of the most costly evils that exist."

Scott travels, analyzes and proposes measures to close a gap that economists have traditionally chosen to ignore.

And it states that this Double X economy made up of women represents 40% of world GDP.

The Double X Economy,

by Linda Scott.

Translation by Esther Cruz Santaella.

Today's topics, 2021.

The double shift

The sociologist of the University of Berkeley Arlie R. Hochschild signed with Anne Machung this essay that includes her study on the work that women undertake.

The research was based on information collected in 50 households in the 1970s and 1980s in the United States, and allowed to name the reality of many women, who added domestic work to their working hours outside the home.

Hochschild talks about the effects that this overload has on couples and also talks with families in which there is a different distribution.

The reissue and update of this classic is timely in a year of confinement with heavy family and work burdens at home.

The double shift.

Working Families and Revolution in the Home,

by Arlie R. Hochschjild and Anne Machung.

Tradition of María Luisa Rodriguez Tapia.

Captain Swing, 2021

Hot

The poet and editor Luna Miguel took as a starting point a text of hers on female masturbation and has built this essay in which memories, readings, interviews and conversations are the wickers for a basket in which there is room for Tolstoy, the actor Adam Driver, Anaïs Nin, Balthus or Annie Ernaux.

A

more veiled

memoir

than it might seem with a wide chorus of voices to try and enter the world of pleasure, of the couple and of betrayal.

Hot

.

Luna Miguel.

Lumen, 2021.

Insolation

She had already written

Los pazos de Ulloa

, achieved fame and proved that she was one of the freest and most challenging women of the moment, when Emilia Pardo Bazán published the novel

Insolación

.

The protagonist is a widow who starts by remembering her meeting with a young man from Cádiz the night before at a fair.

The desire that is clearly sensed in this woman garnered harsh criticism from the author, whose centenary is being celebrated in 2021. A good time to review and vindicate an

avant la lettre

feminist

.

Heatstroke

.

Emilia Pardo Bazán.

Penguin Classics, 2021.

In the land of men

A few months before finishing college, Adrienne Miller came to the newsroom of

GQ

magazine

in New York, where she would rise to become an editor.

From there she went to the legendary

Esquire newspaper,

where she worked in the 1990s as a fiction editor and established a relationship with David Foster Wallace.

He was one of the authors he edited and in this book Miller tells his story with the author of

The Infinite Joke,

a love that was full of ambivalence and pain.

Miller tells how he navigated the waters of this male-dominated publishing and journalistic world.

In the Land of Men

, by Adrienne Miller.

Translation by Juanjo Estrella.

Peninsula, 2021.

No place for women

His suffrage fight in the United Kingdom was parked with the outbreak of World War I.

It was then that doctors Flora Murray and Louise Garrett Anderson started caring for the wounded first in France and later in Great Britain where they ended up running a hospital with more than 500 beds in which all staff was made up of women.

They treated about 26,000 wounded before the conflict ended and the doors were closed on them again.

Her story has been investigated and narrated by journalist Wendy Moore.

Not a place for women

, by Wendy Moore.

Translation by Pedro Pacheco González.

Criticism, 2021

I never knew about men

This dystopian novel by Belgian psychoanalyst Jacqueline Harpman recreates a nightmare world in which 40 women are guarded in a cage by men they never talk to.

The narrator is at the end of her days when she looks back, remembers Théa and tries to tell what all that was about and how when she finished she started an endless search to find meaning.

I never knew about men

, Jacqueline Harpman.

Translation by Alicia Martorell.

Alliance, 2021.

Conversation topics

From 20 to 40 years old, the protagonist of this novel is linking conversations with women.

The first with a sophisticated Italian for whom she works as a babysitter and who tells her about a rape she suffered.

Harassment flies over many of the conversations, love and desire as well.

And talk to talk, this subtle and nuanced story is built without a clear center like those long after-hours or telephone tirades that you can have with a friend.

Conversation Topics

, by Miranda Popkey.

Translation by Patricia Antón.

Gatopardo, 2021.