Cette passionnante histoire est la nôtre. Leïla Slimani Que nous apprennent les peintures rupestres sur le rôle des femmes préhistoriques ? Quel est le rapport entre le téléphone portable et les féminicides ? Entre la bague en diamant de Kim Kardashian et Elena Ferrante ? De siècle en siècle, c'est le même schéma : les hommes en première ligne, les femmes au second plan.
Annabelle Hirsch propose de mettre en lumière une histoire au féminin en partant d'une sélection d'objets les plus divers. Qu'il soit artistique, littéraire, technique, ménager ou intime, chacun raconte à sa fac?on une histoire dont la femme est le sujet.
Une succession de découvertes originales qui nous invite à repenser le monde et à comprendre les actions, les luttes, les audaces et les victoires des femmes au long des siècles.
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, manifold, and too often overlooked histories of women.
With engaging prose, compelling stories, and a beautiful full-page image of each object, Annabelle Hirsch's book contains a curated and 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 stirring 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 sixteenth-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, A History of Women in 101 Objects cracks open the fissures of what we think we know in order to illuminate a much richer retelling: What do handprints on early cave paintings tell us about the role of women in hunting? How is a cell phone related to femicides? What does Kim Kardashian's diamond ring have to do 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 that it has always been as complicated and fascinating as the women who peopled it.
