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Hirsch, Annabelle, 1986- author.
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Women -- History.
Women -- Social aspects.
Museum objects.
Material culture.
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A history of women i...
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A history of women in 101 objects / Annabelle Hirsch ; translated by Eleanor Updegraff.
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Hirsch, Annabelle, 1986- author.
New York : Crown, 2023.
Subjects
Women -- History.
Women -- Social aspects.
Museum objects.
Material culture.
ISBN:
9780593728758 (hardcover) :
0593728750 (hardcover) :
Description:
xiii, 413 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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First edition.
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"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. With engaging prose, compelling stories, and a beautiful full-page image of each object, Annabelle Hirsch curates a diverse compendium of women and their things, uncovering the thoughts and feelings at the heart of women's daily lives. The result is an intimate and lively alternative history of humans in the world. The objects date from prehistory to today and are assembled chronologically to show the evolution of how women were perceived by others, how they perceived themselves, how they fought for freedom. Some (like a 16th century glass dildo) are objects of female pleasure, some (a thumbscrew) of female subjugation. These are artifacts of women celebrated by history and of women unfairly forgotten by it. With variety and nuance, Hirsch cracks open the fissures of what we think we know to illuminate a much richer retelling: What do handprints on early cave paintings tell us about the role of women in hunting? What does a mobile phone have to do with femicides? Or Kim Kardashian's diamond ring with Elena Ferrante? Wide-ranging, subversive, witty, and superbly researched, this is a book that upends all our assumptions about, and presentations of, the past, proving it has always been as complicated and fascinating as the women that peopled it"-- Provided by publisher.
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