Sharp Heels. A Board Book on Literary Feminism. Vira Aheieva, Rostyslav Semkiv

"Sharp Heels" are stories about women writers who lived as brightly as they wrote. Fourteen featured authors destroyed stereotypes and changed ideas about traditional roles of women. They made the public around them fear them, get annoyed, criticize them - but also respect them at the same time. Pointy Heels elegantly elevated them among their contemporaries, and their stories continue to inspire change today.

The book presents Ukrainian women writers alongside authors of Western literature, which emphasizes the belonging of our writing to the world cultural space. From Mary Shelley to Lesia Ukrainka, from Virginia Woolf to Solomiia Pavlychko. This is a story about the intersection of cultures and the common nerve of women's writing, about the sharpness of mind and style.

Literary critics Vira Aheieva and Rostyslav Semkiv will take you on a fascinating journey through the writers who changed the world of literature. And although not all of them were declared feminists, from the time of high romanticism to the opening chords of the early 21st century, each one asserted in their own way: "To be an end in itself."