Woman endowed with the wisdom of her long years lived between travels and books, Elena Pniatowska she lives devoted to the cause of women in society. Writer and chronicler of the realities that she has observed all over the world, she brings us here the essay that represents the vital struggle of great women. Aware and conscientious storyteller. Essential to understand the necessarily emerging figure of a woman since the XNUMXth century.
Today's society fights different struggles, among them that of women, those who raise their voices from their trenches and are unaware of the idea of surrendering. In the midst of the crowd, there are those who go against the current: mothers, combatants, writers, domestic workers; women before and after all.
The untamed pays tribute to the anonymous face of the women who fought in the Revolution, to the unmistakable Jesusa Palancares and to the silence of the women in the service. It houses the essence of Nellie Campobello, Josefina Vicens and Rosario Castellanos, who made their way in a literary era dominated by men. While the disappearance of Alaíde Foppa represents the harsh Latin American reality, Rosario Ibarra de Piedra's imperishable struggle gives a voice to the mothers of the disappeared and the feminist cause of Marta Lamas rethinks what it means to be a woman in the XNUMXst century.
Through this collection of essays, the reader immerses himself in the life of the untamed, often forgotten, but never silenced: «Elena Poniatowska has contributed like few writers to give women a central role, but not a sacramental one, in our society ", Carlos Fuentes.