"It's Better to Face South: 12 Questions and 12 Situations About Women" by Sandwich Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House

Introduction
Do women know the possible harm to their bodies before giving birth?
Should a 22-year marriage that has raised three children continue out of inertia?
If you suffer from domestic violence for a long time, can you get a divorce on your own?
Is it right for me to move to a strange city with my husband, stagnate in my career, and become a "housewife"?
Is it allowed for a mother to say she doesn't love her child?
Do you do IVF because you want to have a child, or because you don’t want to accept that you are “reproductively incompetent”?
As a woman, is it okay not to have menstruation?
What would happen if you gave your mother a vibrator as a gift?
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22 female authors, 24 true life stories
Woolf said in A Room of One's Own: "If a woman is going to write fiction, she must have money and a room of her own."
In "Best Facing South", these female writers use words to build their own "South-facing rooms". Most of them do not make a living by writing, but write down their stories to understand themselves.
These stories are very personal and individual experiences, fragments of life that are of great significance to individuals. They are experiences that are not easily mentioned to others in daily life, and even the closest family and friends are unknown to them.
Through writing, they ask questions about their situations: What have I experienced as a woman? Why have I experienced these things? What do these experiences mean to me? How do they constitute a part of me?
They write about their own lives and write with their lives.
[Editor's recommendation]:
★The title of "Best Facing South" is derived from Virginia Woolf's work "A Room of One's Own", "If a woman intends to write a novel, she must have money and a room of her own." We say that a woman must have a room of her own, and it is best to face south.
This book selects 22 female authors and writes 24 real life fragments. Society has given women a lot of stereotypes, such as getting married, being loyal to marriage, having children, not getting divorced, loving their children, etc. What will women face if they don't do this? The 24 women in the book are 24 unusual "deviant" stories. Some of them don't want to have menstruation, some don't want to get married, some must get divorced, some don't love their children, some have a lifelong alliance with women, and some stand up against sexual assault... These women have generated strength from their hearts and lived out the original appearance of women. They are all individual voices, but they resonate greatly with the current female awakening.
★Most of the authors of "Best Facing South" are not "professional writers" and do not make a living by writing. They have diverse backgrounds, including freelancers, brand planners, bank employees, public welfare practitioners, teachers, doctors, etc., which makes the stories in this book diverse and the content extremely rich.
★"It's Best to Face South" is the second original book of translated documentary, co-produced with Sandwich, a relatively mature writing platform in China.
★The specially invited illustrator drew 4 illustrations for this book. They are in line with the themes of the four articles in this book and have a strong sense of art.