Translation of: Die Dinge : Eine Geschichte der Frauen in 100 Objekten

1. Healed Femur -- 2. Cave Paintings -- 3. Statue of Hatshepsut -- 4. Sappho Papyrus -- 5. Amazon Doll -- 6. Baubo Figurine -- 7. Isis Statuette -- 8. Lilith Amulet -- 9. Hnefatafl Game -- 10. The Bayeux Tapestry -- 11. The Tale of Genji, Paper Scroll -- 12. Nun's Crown -- 13. Ivory Mirror -- 14. Miniature from the Book of the City of Ladies -- 15. Title Page of Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches) -- 16. Figurine of Mary Magdalene -- 17. Chopines (Platform Shoes) -- 18. Perfumed Gloves -- 19. Dish with the Likeness of Roxelana -- 20. Chequers Ring -- 21. Michel de Montaigne, the Essays -- 22. Glass Dildo -- 23. Thumbscrew -- 24. Metal Corset -- 25. Dress Pocket -- 26. Madame de Pompadour's Sealing Stamp -- 27. Bidet -- 28. "La Machine" -- 29. Wax Bust of Anna Morandi Manzolini -- 30. "The Good Mother," Group of Porcelain Figurines -- 31. Ladies of Llangollen Figurine -- 32. Phrygian Cap -- 33. Recamier -- 34. Board Game, "Pleasures of Astronomy" -- 35. Beauty Revealed, Self-Portrait -- 36. The Brontë Sisters' Miniature Books -- 37. Analytical Engine -- 38. Antislavery Coin -- 39. Lithograph, L'avenir. Perspective D'un Phalanstère Ou Palais Sociétaire de L'humanité -- 40. George Sand's Right Arm -- 41. Washing Paddle -- 42. Singer Sewing Machine -- 43. Ashley's Sack -- 44. Planchette -- 45. Fanoos Lamp -- 46. Au Bon Marché Receipt -- 47. The Killing of Aegisthus, Red-Figure Vase -- 48. Knife Belonging to La Mère Filloux -- 49. Remington Typewriter -- 50. Page from Iconographie Photographique de La Salpêtrière -- 51. Marie Bashkirtseff, in the Studio -- 52. Safety Bicycle -- 53. " 'Round the World with Nellie Bly" Game -- 54. Cinematograph -- 55. The Hatpin -- 56. Poster, "Claudine at School" -- 57. Wonderful Hair Grower -- 58. Radium Chocolate -- 59. Hunger Strike Medal -- 60. Athena Statuette Belonging to Sigmund Freud -- 61. First World War Postcard -- 62. Fountain -- 63. Plan of the "Temple de L'amitié," Salon of the Amazon -- 64. 100 Mph Coat -- 65. Chanel No. 5 -- 66. Milady Décolletée Gillette -- 67. "Witch Dance" Mask -- 68. Tina Modotti, Workers Parade -- 69. Lipstick, "Le Rouge Baiser" -- 70. Greta Garbo's Ballpoint Pen -- 71. International Women's Day Badge -- 72. Revista Sur (Sur Magazine) -- 73. Plate, "the Famous Women Dinner Service" -- 74. Marjorie Hillis, Live Alone and Like It -- 75. Exile Diary of Mascha Kaléko -- 76. Sticker, "Red Orchestra" Resistance Group -- 77. Women Airforce Service Pilots Insignia -- 78. Robert Capa Photograph, the Shaved Woman of Chartres -- 79. The Bikini -- 80. Alberto Giacometti, Simone de Beauvoir Portrait -- 81. Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany -- 82. Front Page of the Daily News -- 83. Dance-Card Fan -- 84. Miele "Model a" Vacuum Cleaner -- 85. Tupperware -- 86. "Enovid" Contraceptive Pill -- 87. Hannah Arendt's Brooch -- 88. The Minidress -- 89. Aretha Franklin, "Respect" -- 90. Scissors -- 91. Golda Meir Poster -- 92. Magazine Cover, Le Nouvel Observateur, "Manifesto of the 343" -- 93. Vhs Tape, Deep Throat -- 94. Desiccator -- 95. The Rabbit Pearl -- 96. Dior "We Should All Be Feminists" T-shirt -- 97. Kim Kardashian's Ring -- 98. The Cellphone -- 99. Menstruation Cup -- 100. The Pussyhat -- 101. Bunch of Hair

"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"--

In English, translated from German