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To say Edith Stein lived a remarkable life would be a dramatic understatement. Born in Breslau (then part of Germany) at the end of the 19th century, Edith was raised as an observant jew, only to turn her back on religion right around the time World War I devastated the continent. In the wake of the war, during which she earned a doctorate and began working as an assistant at the University of Freiburg, she began reading the works of the legendary St. Teresa of Ávila, one of the most influential Catholic saints in history.

Quarantined in a southwestern desert city in the midst of her high-risk pregnancy, Margo Steines felt her life narrow around her growing body, compelling her to reckon with the violence entangled in its history. She was a professional dominatrix in New York City, a homestead farmer in a brutal relationship, a welder on a high-rise building crew, and a Mixed Martial Arts enthusiast; each of her many lives brought a new vantage point from which to see how power and masculinity coalesce—and how her body paid the price.

Gertrude Stein and Laura Riding enjoyed a fascinating if brief three-year friendship via correspondence between 1927 and 1930, and in A Description of Acquaintance, Logan Esdale and Jane Malcolm make the letters available to a larger audience for the first time. Riding and Stein are important figures in twentieth-century poetry and poetics and are considered progenitors of later movements such as L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry.

Engagiert, originell und höchst persönlich führt C. Bernd Sucher zusammen mit der Schauspielerin Mechthild Großmann durch Leben und Werk von Gertrude Stein.

Gertrude Stein, collector of art - and people: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Una donna. Che nasce ebrea e muore in quanto ebrea e sarà santificata dalla Chiesa cattolica. Che diventa l'allieva prediletta di uno dei più grandi filosofi del Novecento e a cui verrà negata la carriera accademica. Che si impegna per i diritti delle donne e si farà suora di clausura. Una vita sempre in prima linea: dalle aule universitarie agli ospedali da campo della prima guerra mondiale, dalla scelta appassionata della conversione all'orrore di Auschwitz. Edith Stein è un luminosissimo enigma, una storia di una chiarezza cristallina che getta ombre in ogni direzione, mutevoli