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Endometriosis affects approximately 10% of women. The sometimes debilitating pain of this disease that medicine fails to relieve pushes some people to seek alternative solutions that can border on charlatanism. In this edition, journalist and author Annabelle Hirsch comes to talk to us about “100 objects that tell a story about women”. Pill, bicycle or pockets: these objects, which seem ordinary, in reality trace the evolution of the place of women in society. And then, a hundred years ago, Paris already hosted the Olympic Games. But in 1924, there were much fewer women there and they were trying to find a small place among the athletes.
What do elk antler marbles, pockets or a typewriter have in common? They all tell an aspect of women’s lives. By choosing objects as a common thread, Annabelle Hirsch in fact traces a history of humanity. Among the objects presented in the book, a fighter doll, found in the grave of a 5-year-old girl, and which shows that apart from babies to play mothers, or Barbies to play adult women , there was an alternative: that of the myth of the Amazons.
Fashion can also have surprises in store, particularly when we are interested in pockets. This accessory, today mainly masculine, was once mixed. It was then a small bag worn at the waist. In addition to coins, handkerchiefs and other small everyday objects, the pocket was supposed to carry a message about the virtue of the person wearing it.
Finally, Annabelle Hirsch crosses continents and eras to present the “Pussy hat”, a purple cap worn as a standard by American women in their demonstrations against Donald Trump and his sexist statements.
