A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023
This 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 domesticSome (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.
| Format |
Häftad |
| Omfång |
416 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Canongate Books |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2025-02-27 |
| ISBN |
9781837260416 |