A history of women in 101 objects / Annabelle Hirsch ; translated by Eleanor Updegraff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hirsch, Annabelle, 1986- author.

Contributor:

Updegraff, Eleanor, translator.

Standardized Title:

Dinge. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Women--History.

Women.

Women--History--Pictorial works.

Antiquities.

Antiquities--Pictorial works.

Genre:

History

Pictorial works

Physical Description:

416 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland : Canongate Books, 2023.

Language Note:

Translated from the German.

Summary:

This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular. A single journey, picked out in 101 objects, through the fascinating, too-often-overlooked, manifold histories of women.00Open up this cabinet of curiosities and you'll find objects that have been highly esteemed - even, like the Bayeux tapestry, fought over by nations - and others that are humble and domestic. Some (like a sixteenth century glass dildo) are objects of female pleasure, some (a thumbscrew) of female subjugation. There are artefacts of women celebrated by history and of women unfairly forgotten by it; examples of female rebellion and of self-revelation; objects that are inspiring, curious or (like radium-laced chocolate) just fundamentally ill-conceived.00Through the variety and nuance in all these 101 objects, Annabelle Hirsch has created a new history - teeming, unexpected, witty and always illuminating. This overdue corrective reveals what a healed femur says about civilisation, what men have to fear from hat pins, and it shows that the past has always been as complicated and fascinating as the women that peopled it.00Translation by Eleanor Updegraff of the German 'Die Dinge. Eine Geschichte der Frauen in 100 Objekten', ISBN 9783036958804 (Hbk.) / 9783036961637 (Pbk.).

The way we remember the past today remains dishearteningly patriarchal: a place where women have always been oppressed by men, from ancient times to the present day. A History of Women in 101 Objects tells a new story of female history, revealing the evolution of the role women have played in society through the quiet power of their everyday items.

Notes:

First published as "Die Dinge: Eine Geschichte der Frauen in 100 Objekten" by Kein & Aber in 2022.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781805300878

1805300873

OCLC:

1404446260

Publisher Number:

99995536005