Description
This book gathers a collection of multidisciplinary essays written by distinguished scholars, visual artists, and writers. The common thread of these essays addresses the ways in which fiber arts have enriched and empowered the lives of women throughout the world. From Ancient Greece to the Holocaust, to the work of grassroots organizations, these essays illustrate the universality of fiber arts.
About the Author
Marjorie Agosin is an award-winning poet, essayist, fiction writer, activist, and professor. She is a prolific author: her published books, including those she has written as well as those she has edited, number over eighty. Her two most recent books are both poetry collections, The Light of Desire / La Luz del Deseo, translated by Lori Marie Carlson (Swan Isle Press, 2009), and Secrets in the Sand: The Young Women of Juarez, translated by Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman (White Pine Press, 2006), about the female homicides in Ciudad Juarez. She teaches Spanish language and Latin American literature at Wellesley College, USA. She has won notability for her outspokenness for women's rights in Chile. The United Nations has honored her for her work on human rights. She also won many important literary awards. The Chilean government awarded her with the Gabriela Mistral Medal of Honor for Life Achievement in 2002.
Book Information
ISBN 9781907947902
Author Marjorie Agosin
Format Paperback
Page Count 248
Imprint Solis Press
Publisher Solis Press
Weight(grams) 600g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 216mm * 17mm
About the Author
Marjorie Agosin is an award-winning poet, essayist, fiction writer, activist, and professor. She is a prolific author: her published books, including those she has written as well as those she has edited, number over eighty. Her two most recent books are both poetry collections, The Light of Desire / La Luz del Deseo, translated by Lori Marie Carlson (Swan Isle Press, 2009), and Secrets in the Sand: The Young Women of Juarez, translated by Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman (White Pine Press, 2006), about the female homicides in Ciudad Juarez. She teaches Spanish language and Latin American literature at Wellesley College, USA. She has won notability for her outspokenness for women's rights in Chile. The United Nations has honored her for her work on human rights. She also won many important literary awards. The Chilean government awarded her with the Gabriela Mistral Medal of Honor for Life Achievement in 2002.
Book Information
ISBN 9781907947902
Author Marjorie Agosin
Format Paperback
Page Count 248
Imprint Solis Press
Publisher Solis Press
Weight(grams) 600g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 216mm * 17mm
