Land of Women

Praise for Land of Women

"A passionate and touching book...Land of Women may be a small book, but it is mighty. It gives a voice to rural women and speaks truths long hidden." — Christian Science Monitor

"Sánchez’s prose is both lyrical and nebulous, resulting in a deep, personal cultural history that digs into areas not often discussed...a moving feminist account of women’s historical roles in rural communities." — Foreword Reviews

"Writer and veterinarian María Sánchez celebrates the women of her world, quiet workers of an ultrapatriarchal campaign. As indispensable as they are invisible. As omnipresent as they are silent. In this feminist and poetic manifesto, Sánchez draws on her own history to measure how much the earth is also a woman’s affair.” — Le Monde

“This book does not talk about the women who will fill the city streets. It speaks of a rural feminism . . . that remembers the strong and wise women who worked the land without raising their voices.”​ ― Time Out

“Narrated with agility, lucidity, forcefulness, and tenderness. There is knowledge, pride, vitality, and fantastic energy in this memoir about the women who, against the tide of history, didn’t leave their family homes or their land, the ones who stayed with their men (or without them) in the rural area, the ones who resisted the exodus to the cities.”​ — El País​ 

“Land of Women is a beautiful tribute to the genealogy of women who came before, women with hands that molded the earth and who were part of the earth.”​ — El Heraldo de Aragón

“María Sánchez asks us to consider the silent contribution of women in rural areas free from nostalgia, bucolic sentiments, and prejudice.”​ — El Mundo

“María Sánchez recovers the trace of the women in her life—in her learning, in the field, and in the home. As with the feminist movement, she turns our attention to that which was invisible to us until now.”​ —Zenda

“Land of Women launches a harangue against urban snobbery: no more stigmatizing the people of the countryside and ignoring their workers.”​ ― Eldiario

“Sánchez’s ferocity echoes Elena Ferrante.”​ — Aysmptote

“An expression of intimate and familiar memory endowed with a great poetic strength.”​ — ABC Sevilla

“An essential [book] that focuses on the compelling need to expand feminist discourse so that it affects not only women in big cities but also those in rural areas. It deserves to be read by everyone. After all, there’s still soil under the concrete.”​ ― La Vanguardia

“With Land of Women, María Sánchez has become an essential writer to read.”​ — El Cultural

“Faced with a feminism that is highlighted through social media, María Sánchez knows that outside the cities, agriculture is an assumption without consideration. She gives feminist voice to the field.”​ — El Cultural

Land of Women urges us to reconnect with the rural world, especially its women, and to tell our stories free of shame.”​ — ABC Cultura

“An epic book—political, pure, and sincere. There are few books as necessary as this.”​ — El Confidencial

“Land of Women is personal and unique—a book that cannot be defined under any one label. A book that is born from mourning. A book of trial and vindication. A book of intimate and collective memory.”​ — Anna María Iglesia 

“Land of Women is simultaneously everything I do not know and everything I love: my midwife great-grandmother, my literature teacher grandmother, my historian mother, them, me, us, all different, together.”​ — Luna Miguel 

“Rooted in our landscape, suffused with tenderness and courage, Sánchez gives voice to all of those anonymous figures who work and nourish the fields.”​ — Cristina Sánchez-Andrade

“This is more than a book. It’s a piece of the earth, of the land, of life itself.”​ — Aleix Costa

“Land of Women is truth: truth and caring, truth and vigor, truth and consciousness, truth and reality.”​ — Sergio Sancor