Annabelle Hirsch – författare

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 single 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 - 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.Through 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.

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.

»Geschnatter auf der Damentoilette für immer.« SOPHIE PASSMANN 22 Autor:innen erzählen von einem Ort, an dem Fremde zu Komplizinnen werden, an dem man sich Lippenstift borgt, über Liebeskummer spricht, lacht, trinkt, sich tröstet, gemeinsam durch die Nacht geht. Ein Ort, an dem das Leben spielt, reich an außergewöhnlichen Geschichten: die Damentoilette. Ein Band, der vom spirit herausragender Stimmen getragen wird und Schwesternschaft feiert – hellwach und radikal gegenwärtig.  Mit Beiträgen von Gabriele von Arnim, Claire Beermann, Rita Bullwinkel, Katja Eichinger, Ubin Eoh, Xiaochun Fan, Sonja Finck, Nora Gantenbrink, Ilona Hartmann, Lin Hierse, Annabelle Hirsch, Mareile Höppner, Heidi Julavits, Enuma Okoro, Elina Penner, Caroline Rosales, Jovana Reisinger, Leanne Shapton, Nicole Seifert, Marlene Sørensen, Dana Vowinckel und Kim Addonizio.»Die Damentoilette: unser Safe Space — kein besserer Ort für Zusammenbrüche, Solidarität und Glücksmomente. Endlich schaut jemand dorthin, wo wir schon immer zusammengehalten haben.« MARIA-CHRISTINA PIWOWARSKI