Políticas, escritoras, maestras, poetas, abogadas, inventoras, artistas… Sandra Sabatés se sumerge en nuestro pasado para rescatar las vidas de mujeres ilustres y valientes que desafiaron prejuicios, superaron barreras y abrieron caminos. Un libro precioso con ilustraciones de Ana Juan que nos ofrece la oportunidad de releer nuestro pasado en busca de mujeres que han sido poco reconocidas o directamente olvidadas de la historia española: un tema que sin duda interesará a muchos lectores sensibilizados con el feminismo. Algunas mujeres de las que hablará el libro: Emilia Pardo Bazán, Rosalía de Castro, María de Maeztu, María de la O Lejárraga, Las sinsombrero, Clara Campoamor, Victoria Kent, Dolores Ibárruri, la Pasionaria, María Moliner, Zenobia Camprubí, Margarita Salas y Lidia Falcón.
Author
Ana Juan is an illustrator and painter. After graduating in Fine Arts from Universidad Politécnica in Valencia (1982), she moved to Madrid at the height of the movida madrileña and in the early 1980s she collaborated with magazines such as La Luna and Madriz. In 1991 she temporarily moved to Paris and exhibited in Geneve and New York; in 1994 she received a fellowship by the Japanese publishing house Kodansha and lived in Japan for three months. Back in Madrid, in 1995 she started contributing to The New Yorker, for which she has designed more than 20 covers over the years. In 1998 and 1999 she was awarded the Gold Medal (category: Illustration) by the Society of Newspaper Design and on September 24, 2010 she was awarded the “Premio Nacional de Ilustración” by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. She currently creates her own books (texts and illustrations), exhibits her work all over the world (Spain, Mexico, Japan, Italy…) and contributes to many Spanish and international magazines. She has also illustrated many Isabel Allende’s book covers for Plaza e Janés (Penguin Random House), among which: Retrato en Sepia, Eva Luna, El cuaderno de Maya, De amor y de sombra.
