A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife's beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales of love, marriage and family life in mid-century Copenhagen pulse currents of desire, violence and despair, as women and men dream of escaping their conventiona...(展开全部)

The Trouble with Happiness is a short-story collection from Tove Ditlevsen, the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, never before translated in English A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife’s beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales o...(展开全部)

A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife's beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales of love, marriage and family life in mid-century Copenhagen pulse currents of desire, violence and despair, as women and men dream of escaping their conventiona...(展开全部)

The arrival of the autumn/winter 2001 debut issue of this deluxe fashion bi-annual for men and women forced a redefinition of the parameters of luxury magazine publishing. As a challenging cultural encylopedia of the moment, it celebrated the extremes of contemporary lifestyles and explored the crossover in tastes and interests between the genders.With art direction by Alex Wie...(展开全部)

Men Without Women was a milestone in Hemingway's career. Fiesta had already established him as a novelist of exceptional power, but with these short stories, his second collection, he showed that it is possible, within the space of a few pages, to recreate a scene with absolute truth, bringing to life details observed only by the eye of a uniquely gifted artist. Heming...(展开全部)

沙赫尔努希·帕尔西普尔（Shahrnūsh Pārsīpūr 1946—）是伊朗当代享有盛誉的一位女作家，在美国召开的第18届世界女性研究大会上被选为年度女性，其作品被翻译成多种语言。帕尔西普尔曾在法国巴黎索邦大学获中国语言文化系本科文凭，与中国有缘。帕尔西普尔16岁开始在各种刊物上发表作品，1974年出版第一部长篇小说《狗与漫长的冬季》。同年，因参加抗议巴列维政权对作家们的政治迫害而被捕入狱54天。1989年，出版长篇小说《没有男人的女人们》，受到“异端审判委员会”的传唤审判，最终被判监禁，出狱后移居美国。帕尔西普尔出版有小说集《水晶吊坠》（1977）、《自由的体验》（1978），长篇小说《图芭与夜晚的意义》（1988）、《没有男人的女人们》（1989）、《蓝色理智》（1992）、《树灵的简单小奇遇》（1998）、《喜娃》（1999）、《御风而行》...(展开全部)

If men and women are equal, why have males been the dominant sex virtually throughout history? Here, geneticist Moir and BBC- TV writer-producer Jessel argue convincingly that the answer lies in the difference between the male and female brain. Writing with clarity and style, and documenting their data every step of the way, Moir and Jessel explain how the embryonic brain is sh...(展开全部)

著者：艾丽斯·沃克（Alice Walker，1944—） 美国非裔女作家、社会活动家，普利策奖得主。1983年，她的长篇小说《紫颜色》以其独特的叙事手法和感人肺腑的故事，赢得普利策奖、美国国家图书奖等多个奖项，她也因此成为首位获得普利策文学奖的非裔美国女性。由该小说改编而成的同名电影，是美国电影史上第一部以黑人为题材的电影，共获11项奥斯卡奖提名。沃克长期关注与女性、种族相关的社会议题，并笔耕不辍，对世界女性主义文学的发展产生了重要影响。 译者：乔娟 山西大学外国语学院副教授、硕士生导师，北京语言大学文学博士，主要研究方向为西方文论与美国文学。

著者：艾丽斯·沃克（Alice Walker，1944—） 美国非裔女作家、社会活动家，普利策奖得主。1983年，她的长篇小说《紫颜色》以其独特的叙事手法和感人肺腑的故事，赢得普利策奖、美国国家图书奖等多个奖项，她也因此成为首位获得普利策文学奖的非裔美国女性。由该小说改编而成的同名电影，是美国电影史上第一部以黑人为题材的电影，共获11项奥斯卡奖提名。沃克长期关注与女性、种族相关的社会议题，并笔耕不辍，对世界女性主义文学的发展产生了重要影响。 译者：乔娟 山西大学外国语学院副教授、硕士生导师，北京语言大学文学博士，主要研究方向为西方文论与美国文学。

苏珊·布朗米勒1935年4月15日出生于布兰克林，曾任教于康奈尔大学，之后在纽约参与学术活动。1960年2月的美国南方运动结束了种族隔离，这促使她成为一位政治活动家。苏珊·布朗米勒长期为《纽约周刊》和ABC电视台撰写专栏文章，她的其他著作有《女性特质》和《我们的时代》。