Descripción
A pioneering work in redeeming women's place in history
More than 500,000 copies sold
"Deepens the search for a new feminine literary and artistic canon."- Jesús Ruiz Mantilla, El País
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
With this assurance, the poet Sappho proclaimed the transcendence of women's contribution to universal culture. Since then, more than 2,500 years of silence and male-centered power have weighed on female creators. For decades, however, a variety of voices have called for rewriting history to restore women's role in its pages. A pioneer of such efforts in Spain is Ángeles Caso, whose The Forgotten launched an ambitious project in 2005 to create a women's cultural genealogy. The book's publication history demonstrates the urgency of this task: Several editions later, with half a million copies sold, it continues to be a key source for understanding the importance of works obscured by the established canon. The Forgotten redeems the legacy of women who contributed to the development of art, literature, science, thought and politics in the medieval and early modern periods but whose contributions were later denied: Hildegarde of Bingen and other erudite nuns, Cristine de Pizan, Beatriz Galindo, painters Sofonisba Anguissola and Artemisia Gentileschi, playwright and spy Aphra Behn, Saint Teresa of Ávila, writer María de Zayas.... These are just a few of the countless women who helped lay the foundation for the world we live in today.
Author: Ángeles Caso
Publisher: Lumen Press
Published: 12/03/2024
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.80w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9788426426888
ISBN10: 8426426883
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory
More than 500,000 copies sold
"Deepens the search for a new feminine literary and artistic canon."- Jesús Ruiz Mantilla, El País
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
With this assurance, the poet Sappho proclaimed the transcendence of women's contribution to universal culture. Since then, more than 2,500 years of silence and male-centered power have weighed on female creators. For decades, however, a variety of voices have called for rewriting history to restore women's role in its pages. A pioneer of such efforts in Spain is Ángeles Caso, whose The Forgotten launched an ambitious project in 2005 to create a women's cultural genealogy. The book's publication history demonstrates the urgency of this task: Several editions later, with half a million copies sold, it continues to be a key source for understanding the importance of works obscured by the established canon. The Forgotten redeems the legacy of women who contributed to the development of art, literature, science, thought and politics in the medieval and early modern periods but whose contributions were later denied: Hildegarde of Bingen and other erudite nuns, Cristine de Pizan, Beatriz Galindo, painters Sofonisba Anguissola and Artemisia Gentileschi, playwright and spy Aphra Behn, Saint Teresa of Ávila, writer María de Zayas.... These are just a few of the countless women who helped lay the foundation for the world we live in today.
Author: Ángeles Caso
Publisher: Lumen Press
Published: 12/03/2024
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.80w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9788426426888
ISBN10: 8426426883
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory
About the Author
Ángeles Caso (Gijón, 1959) is a writer, art historian and communicator. She has published several essays that have become classics of gender historiography, such as The Forgotten. A History of Creative Women (2005), Themselves. Self-Portraits of Female Painters (2016), Great Masters. Women in Western Art (2017) or the children's book Female Painters (2018). She has published highly successful novels and has received several awards, such as the Planeta Prize 2009 and the Best Translated Novel in China 2010 for Against the Wind or the Fernando Lara Prize 2000 for A Long Silence. She is also a translator, columnist and screenwriter. Her work has been translated into fifteen languages.