Deborah Copakenová Knihy

"Breasts. Uterus. Cervix. Heart. Vagina. The source of life, right? Well, for writer and photographer Deborah Copaken, it turned out to be just the opposite--almost. Between escaping from an abusive marriage, facing down the challenge of single-parenthood, and attempting to find love again, getting her bearings after everything she knew fell to pieces proved more slippery than she ever could have anticipated. From a Fourth of July health scare that brings new meaning to the words rocket's red glare, to wearing a giant heart monitor while out on dates to try and mend a heart both literally and figuratively broken, Lady Parts is Copaken's irreverent inventory of the female body and all the ailments that can befall it. Copaken's Lady Parts mines for irony the breakdown of a body during a time of intense spiritual and psychological upheaval, and paints with both black humor and breathtaking candor the portrait of a woman in revolt. From bloodclots and breast exams, heart palpitations and heartbreaks, to the terror, loneliness, and empowerment of a woman fighting for her life, Copaken weaves her harrowing experiences together with insights from medical and historical research to show how many of these common health issues and disabilities merely amplify what women around the world confront on a daily basis: warped beauty standards, workplace sexism, worries about romantic partners, and mistrust of their own bodies"-- Provided by publisher

The memoirs of a photojournalist finding and fighting her way through the war zones of the world experiencing the danger, pain, truths and even love on the way.

When a deep-seated memory suddenly surfaces, Elizabeth Burns becomes obsessed with the long-ago disappearance of her childhood friend April Cassidy. Driven to investigate, Elizabeth discovers a thirty-five-year-old newspaper article revealing the details that had been hidden from her as a child―shocking revelations about April's mother, Adele.Elizabeth, now herself a mother, seeks out anyone who might help piece together the final months, days, and hours of this troubled woman's life, but the answers yield only more questions. And those questions lead back to Elizabeth's own her own compromised marriage, her increasing self-doubt and dissatisfaction, and finally, a fearsome reckoning with what it means to be a wife and mother.

Hay un hilo colorado, rebelde, lleno de nudos, que recorre la vida de las mujeres a lo largo del siglo XX hasta llegar a nuestros días. Empezamos a deshacer el ovillo con Un árbol crece en Brooklyn, quecontaba la historia de una chica abriéndose paso en Nueva York en 1912; luego llegó Lo mejor de la vida describiendo los despachos de Manhattan en los a#os cincuenta, y le siguió Solo para mujeres, lanovela que describía las dudas de las mujeres cuando el feminismo empezaba a dar sus primeros pasos. Ahora el hilo llega hasta nuestros días, enredándose en las vidas de cuatro estudiantes en los ochenta y noventa, una época en que no existía Facebook pero todos los alumnos tenían a disposición un cuaderno de tapas rojas donde apuntaban y compartían sus andanzas una vez dejada la universidad. Clover, Addison, Jane y Mia fueron rellenando las hojas, pero una cosa es escribir y otra muy distinta es encontrarse hoy de nuevo cara a cara, cuando ya han pasado veinte años, y confrontar los sueños de entonces y las mentiras bien dichas con la realidad: eso se proponen las cuatro amigas a lo largo de un fin de semana intenso, doloroso a veces, y cargado de emociones. ¿Es posible que un par de días bien aprovechados cambien nuestro mundo y nos den una nueva versión de la vida? Pasen y lean: Ayer, hoy y siempre tiene la respuesta. "Una novela destinada a convertirse en un clásico...Un retrato de la mujer que puede compararse con El grupo de Mary McCarthy." Vanity Fair

Die junge Journalistin berichtet über ihre Arbeit als Fotojournalistin in den Krisengebieten der Welt.

Fresh out of college and passionate about photography, Deborah Copaken Kogan moved to Paris in 1988 and began knocking on photo agency doors, begging to be given a photojournalism assignment. Within weeks she was on the back of a truck in Afghanistan, the only woman—and the only journalist—in a convoy of mujahideen, the rebel “freedom fighters” at the time. She had traveled there with a handsome but dangerously unpredictable Frenchman, and the interwoven stories of their relationship and the assignment set the pace for Shutterbabe ’s six chapters, each covering a different corner of the globe, each linked to a man in Kogan’s life at the time. From Zimbabwe to Romania, from Russia to Haiti, Kogan takes her readers on a heartbreaking yet surprisingly hilarious journey through a mine-strewn decade, seamlessly blending her personal battles—sexism, battery, life-threatening danger—with the historical ones—wars, revolution, unfathomable suffering—it was her job to record.