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Kate Bolick Spinster
making a life of one's own
This book looks at the pleasures and possibilities of remaining single. Using her own experiences as a starting point, journalist and cultural critic Kate Bolick invites us into her carefully considered, passionately lived life, weaving together the past and present to examine why she—along with over 100 million American women, whose ranks keep growing—remains unmarried.This unprecedented demographic shift is the outcome of hundreds of years of change that has neither been fully understood, nor appreciated....
Non-fictie
Engels | 308 pagina's | Corsair, London | 2015
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Azar Nafisi Ann taqraʾ Lūlītā fī ṭihirān
sīra fī kitāb
Anno 1995 richt een docente in Iran een geheime leesclub op waaraan zeven studentes deelnemen; dit heeft grote invloed op hun leven.
Non-fictie
Arabisch | 576 pagina's | Manšūrāt al-ǧamal, Baġdād | 2009
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Tessa Dunlop The Bletchley girls
war, secrecy, love and loss; the women of Bletchley Park tell their story
The story of the women of Bletchley Park, Britain's top secret code-breaking school, is told through exclusive interviews with the women who served their country, and the impact that their service had on the rest of their lives. Based on extensive interviews conducted specifically for this book, Tessa Dunlop tells the story of the Bletchley Girls through the lives of 15 women who were all selected to work in Britain's most secret World War II organization -- Bletchley Park. Many were just school...
Non-fictie
Engels | 341 pagina's | Hodder, London | 2019
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