A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s feminism, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism. Susan Sontag is widely regarded as one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. “The most interesting ideas, after all, are heresies,” she remarked, and indeed, her writing reaches beyond the familiar, e...(展开全部)

On Women brings together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work that has not until now received the attention it deserves. For the most part written in the 1970s during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag's essays are strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations. At times powerfully in sync and at others powerful...(展开全部)

作者簡介 蘇‧勞伊德•羅伯茨（Sue Lloyd-Roberts） 獲獎無數的新聞記者，獲得的榮譽包括歐洲女性成就獎（European Woman of Achievement）、年度國際記者獎（International Reporter of the Year Award）、聯合國「女性行動獎：為女性移民和女性難民而戰」（Move Award），並以紀錄片《深入北韓泡影》（Inside the North Korean Bubble）獲得艾美獎。羅伯茨以其在BBC電視台記者生涯的非凡貢獻與成就於2013年獲頒大英帝國司令勳章一枚。 ●「同世代的電視記者中最為出色的一人。」──休‧愛德華茲（Huw Edwards） ●「才華洋溢、努力不懈。」──傑瑞米‧鮑溫（Jeremy Bowen） ●「她的身上具備著所謂的道德勇氣，並將這項特質傳遞其他的人。」...(展开全部)

A disturbing and radical examination of the status of women and the role of violence in contemporary culture and politics.

The photographs by Annie Leibovitz in Women, taken especially for the book, encompass a broad spectrum of subjects: a rap artist, an astronaut, two Supreme Court justices, farmers, coal miners, movie stars, showgirls, rodeo riders, socialites, reporters, dancers, a maid, a general, a surgeon, the First Lady of the United States, the secretary of state, a senator, rock stars, pr...(展开全部)

An award-winning physician and scientist makes the game-changing case that genetic females are stronger than males at every stage of life Here are some facts: Women live longer than men. They have stronger immune systems. They're better at fighting cancer and surviving famine, and even see the world in a wider variety of colors. They are simply stronger than men at every stage ...(展开全部)

As she did with Martin Guerre, Natalie Zemon Davis here retrieves individual lives from historical obscurity to give us a window onto the early modern world. As women living in the 17th century, Glikl bas Judah Leib, Marie de l'Incarnation, and Maria Sibylla Merian, equally remarkable though very different, were not queens or noblewomen, their every move publicly noted. Rather,...(展开全部)

An award-winning physician and scientist makes the game-changing case that genetic females are stronger than males at every stage of life Here are some facts: Women live longer than men. They have stronger immune systems. They're better at fighting cancer and surviving famine, and even see the world in a wider variety of colors. They are simply stronger than men at every stage ...(展开全部)

As she did with Martin Guerre, Natalie Zemon Davis here retrieves individual lives from historical obscurity to give us a window onto the early modern world. As women living in the 17th century, Glikl bas Judah Leib, Marie de l'Incarnation, and Maria Sibylla Merian, equally remarkable though very different, were not queens or noblewomen, their every move publicly noted. Rather,...(展开全部)

弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫 1882-1941 英国作家、文学批评家和文学理论家。生于英国伦敦，父亲莱斯利·斯蒂芬爵士是学者。 1915年，出版第一部小说《远航》，在第一次世界大战期间，伍尔夫夫妇创立霍加斯出版社，出版了T.S.艾略特、E.M.福斯特、凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德、陀思妥耶夫斯基等人的著作。 除了意识流小说，伍尔夫还留下大量日记、书信集和评论文章，被誉为“新散文的开创者”。