The Women I Think About at Night, Mia Kankimaki
The Women I Think About at Night, Mia Kankimaki
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The Women I Think About at Night
Traveling the Paths of My Heroes

Author: Mia Kankimäki, Douglas Robinson

Narrator: Lisa Negron

Unabridged: 15 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/08/2023


Synopsis

In this "thought-provoking blend of history, biography, women's studies, and travelogue" (Library Journal) Mia Kankimäki recounts her enchanting travels in Japan, Kenya, and Italy while retracing the steps of ten remarkable female pioneers from history.

What can a forty-something childless woman do? Bored with her life and feeling stuck, Mia Kankimäki leaves her job, sells her apartment, and decides to travel the world, following the paths of the female explorers and artists from history who have long inspired her. She flies to Tanzania and then to Kenya to see where Karen Blixen—of Out of Africa fame—lived in the 1920s. In Japan, Mia attempts to cure her depression while researching Yayoi Kusama, the contemporary artist who has voluntarily lived in a psychiatric hospital for decades. In Italy, Mia spends her days looking for the works of forgotten Renaissance women painters of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and finally finds her heroines in the portraits of Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, and Atremisia Gentileschi. If these women could make it in the world hundreds of years ago, why can't Mia?

The Women I Think About at Night is "an astute, entertaining . . . [and] insightful" (Publishers Weekly) exploration of the lost women adventurers of history who defied expectations in order to see—and change—the world.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Heidi

Mitä naisia! Iltasatuja kapinallisille keski-ikäisille!......more

Mia Kankimäki, 40+ utan man, barn, jobb beger sig iväg på resor i historiska kvinnors spår. Kvinnorna hon tänker på om natten. Under tiden skriver hon drygt 400 förtrollande sidor om sina upplevelser, litteratur, kvinnohistoria och feminism. Nyckelordet är frihet! ”Visst, i bokstavlig mening är upptä......more