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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 7 books in this booklist
£12.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781612198750 | ISBN 10: 1612198759
Frida Kahlo’s legacy continues to grow in the public imagination in the nearly fifty years since her ”discovery” in the 1970s. This collection of conversations over the course of her brief career allows a peek at the woman behind the hype. And ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781526605313 | ISBN 10: 1526605317
Frida is the story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary women, the painter Frida Kahlo. Born near Mexico City, she grew up during the turbulent days of the Mexican Revolution and, at eighteen, was the victim of an accident that left h ... more
View book details£20.00 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780349008776 | ISBN 10: 0349008779
A personal biography of Leonora Carrington, the debutante who ran away to Mexico and became one of the world's most significant surrealist artists. In 2006 journalist Joanna Moorhead discovered that her father's cousin, Prim, who had disappe ... more
View book details£17.00 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781604880366 | ISBN 10: 1604880368
The social revolution that in 1959 brought down the bloody Batista dictatorship began in the streets of cities like Santiago de Cuba and the Rebel Armys liberated mountain zones of eastern Cuba. The unprecedented integration of women in the ranks an ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780747558996 | ISBN 10: 074755899x
Acclaimed Nicaraguan writer Gioconda Belli may have grown up as a pampered high-society girl, but her increasing awareness of social inequalities prompted her to join a revolutionary movement, and to serve, and then lead, their underground resistence ... more
View book details£20.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780521893534 | ISBN 10: 0521893534
Here are the true and dramatic stories of two nineteenth century Brazillian women - one young and born a slave, the other old and from an illustrious planter family - and how each in her own way sought to have her way; The slave woman struggled to av ... more
View book details£17.95 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9781899365302 | ISBN 10: 1899365303
On New Year's Day 2004, San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas, southern Mexico, was taken by a Tzotzil woman, Major Ana Maria of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN). Her story is one of the many stirring testimonies in 'Women of Maize'. Fro ... more
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