The Women I Think about at Night: Traveling the Paths of My Heroes - Mia Kankimki

Descriere The Women I Think about at Night: Traveling the Paths of My Heroes - Mia Kankimki

In this thought-provoking blend of history, biography, women's studies, and travelogue (Library Journal) Mia Kankimäki recounts her enchanting travels in Japan, Kenya, and Italy while retracing the steps of ten remarkable female pioneers from history. \nWhat can a forty-something childless woman do? Bored with her life and feeling stuck, Mia Kankimäki leaves her job, sells her apartment, and decides to travel the world, following the paths of the female explorers and artists from history who have long inspired her. She flies to Tanzania and then to Kenya to see where Karen Blixen--of Out of Africa fame--lived in the 1920s. In Japan, Mia attempts to cure her depression while researching Yayoi Kusama, the contemporary artist who has voluntarily lived in a psychiatric hospital for decades. In Italy, Mia spends her days looking for the works of forgotten Renaissance women painters of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and finally finds her heroines in the portraits of Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, and Atremisia Gentileschi. If these women could make it in the world hundreds of years ago, why can't Mia? \n \nThe Women I Think About at Night is an astute, entertaining...[and] insightful (Publishers Weekly) exploration of the lost women adventurers of history who defied expectations in order to see--and change--the world.\n

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Brand

SIMON & SCHUSTER

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ENSTK

EAN / GTIN

9781982129200

Magazine

1

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