Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #793316 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04
• Original language: Spanish
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 80 pages

Customer Reviews

Have lots of fun :)
This book has a lot of jokes (in spanish) regarding everyday life nowadays, from a modern woman's point of view. The author, Maitena, is quite well-known in Argentina, and her work has also been published in Spain and France.

If you read it, not only will you have fun, you'll also improve your spanish. I recommend it to women, but also to men (I think that after reading this book they are highly likely to understand us better:)!!).

On the whole, I think that buying this book is a good idea if you want to laugh a lot, and practise your spanish. Maitena might be sometimes too caustic, but she is always amusing.

Loved it !!!!
Maitena is an argentinian cartoonist, who delights in surprising the reader, and making him laugh. Her sense of humor is rather acerbic, but I think that is quite refreshing. Her cartoons center on women, what happens to us (at work, in relationships, etc...) and how we think. Maybe you won't identify with what happens in many of her comics, but you'll certainly feel others depict quite closely what happens to you or your friends.

After having success with her cartoons, she was asked to compile them in books. This is the first of her books in the "Mujeres Alteradas" ("Altered women") series. In a recent New York Times's article Maitena explained the reason for the title of the series. She said that "To me an altered woman is one who has all of these battlefields open at the same time". "We've got work, men, maternity, our body, our friends, our mothers, a whole bunch of things, and that's what puts us in an altered state, in which we can go from euphoria to a depressed crying jag in 15 minutes".

I really enjoyed this compilation of cartoons, and I believe you are highly likely to do the same, provided you know at least a little bit of spanish, or are well predisposed to reading it with the help of a small english-spanish/spanish-english dictionary. Having already taken the "language issue" into consideration, I think I can strongly recommend this book to you. I would like to finish this review with a quotation from the article I mentioned above. There Maitena says that "Women are not all the same, but the same things happen to us". In my opinion, that is the reason why all women (and men interested in knowing more about us) will love this book.

Belen Alcat

Feminismo Inteligente
En un mundo de comics donde las mujeres tienen poca cabida, Maitena se perfila como una de las mas fuertes exponentes del feminismo inteligente, narrando el complejo mundo de la mujer a través del humor gráfico. Como hombre me encantan sus cartones y me ha ayudado a comprender a mi pareja. Maitena muestra un feminismo refinado, intelectual y no misandro.