Listen to clips of our selections: “A History of Women in 101 Objects,” “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks” and Kristin Hannah’s “The Women.”
Rifling through the great junk drawer of history, Hirsch has come up with 101 miscellaneous treasures — some unexpected , some obvious . Each contributes its tale to the history of women: a healed femur , a washing paddle , a Remington typewriter , the minidress , Kim Kardashian’s ring . The book’s final entry is “a bunch of hair,” an inclusion meant to highlight the omission of the headscarf or veil, an article whose complex significance fills this provocative chapter.
First published in 2013 and now available in an audio version, Theoharis’s revealing biography of Rosa Parks paints an arresting, multidimensional portrait of the woman who has so often been reduced to one act: her refusal to give up her seat to a White man on a bus in Montgomery, Ala., on Dec. 1, 1955.
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