Deborah Copakenová Knihy

Breasts. Uterus. Cervix. Heart. Vagina. These are often seen as the sources of life, but for writer and photographer Deborah Copaken, they became symbols of struggle. After escaping an abusive marriage and navigating single parenthood, she faced the daunting task of rebuilding her life. A Fourth of July health scare brought new meaning to “rocket's red glare,” while wearing a heart monitor on dates illustrated her journey to heal both her heart and spirit. Copaken's narrative is an irreverent exploration of the female body and its ailments, revealing the irony of bodily breakdown amid profound personal upheaval. With black humor and raw honesty, she portrays a woman in revolt, confronting blood clots, breast exams, heart palpitations, and heartbreaks. Her experiences highlight the terror, loneliness, and empowerment of a woman fighting for her life. By intertwining her harrowing story with medical and historical insights, Copaken sheds light on common health issues that amplify the everyday challenges women face, such as distorted beauty standards, workplace sexism, romantic insecurities, and distrust of their own bodies.

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.