A History of Women in 101 Objects - Annabelle Hirsch, Canongate Books recenzia

A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular. A journey, picked out in 101 objects, through the fascinating, too-often-overlooked, manifold histories of women.Open up this cabinet of curiosities and you'll find objects that have been highly esteemed 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.In this compendium, Annabelle Hirsch reveals a new history - teeming, unexpected, witty and always illuminating.