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The Five de Hallie Rubenhold

The Five

Autor Hallie Rubenhold
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 mar 2020

Nivel de studiu: licență și referință profesională. În The Five, Hallie Rubenhold execută o manevră istoriografică necesară: mută reflectorul de pe identitatea mitologizată a criminalului Jack Spintecătorul asupra vieților concrete ale celor cinci femei ucise în 1888. Notăm cu interes rigoarea cu care autoarea demontează stereotipurile epocii victoriene, demonstrând că victimele nu erau doar „prostituate”, ci femei cu destine complexe — de la administratoare de cafenele la scriitoare de balade sau supraviețuitoare ale traficului de persoane. Putem afirma că volumul funcționează ca un studiu sociologic dens, ancorat în realitățile sărăciei și misoginismului sistemic, oferind o voce celor care au fost reduse timp de un secol la simple detalii anatomice în rapoartele poliției. Ca alternativă la The Ripper's Victims in Print de Rebecca Frost pentru cursurile de istorie socială sau studii de gen, The Five aduce avantajul unei narațiuni profund umane, care transformă statistica în biografie. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Rubenhold utilizează experiența sa de istoric de artă pentru a reconstrui atmosfera Londrei, o abordare vizibilă și în lucrările sale anterioare, precum The Covent Garden Ladies sau The Scandalous Lady W. Spre deosebire de lucrările axate pe „ripperologie” clasică, precum cea a lui Paul Begg, care se concentrează pe misterul nerezolvat, Rubenhold refuză să îi dea nume ucigașului, tratându-l ca pe un element perturbator într-o analiză amplă a societății victoriene.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780358299615
ISBN-10: 0358299616
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: 8-page b&w insert
Dimensiuni: 131 x 203 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Harpercollins
Locul publicării:United States

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Recomandăm această carte oricărui cititor pasionat de istorie socială și feminism. Veți câștiga o perspectivă complet nouă asupra anului 1888, dincolo de senzaționalismul crimelor. Este un exercițiu de demnitate istorică ce demonstrează cum prejudecățile documentelor de epocă pot șterge identitatea umană. The Five nu este despre un monstru, ci despre reziliența unor femei care au încercat să supraviețuiască într-o lume ostilă.

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Hallie Rubenhold este o reputată scriitoare și istoric de artă britanică, născută în Los Angeles. Specializată în istoria socială a secolelor XVIII și XIX, Rubenhold și-a început cariera cu The Covent Garden Ladies, o lucrare ce a explorat viața nocturnă a Londrei georgiene. Expertiza sa în cercetarea arhivelor și talentul de a aduce la lumină figuri feminine marginalizate sunt evidente și în The Scandalous Lady W, adaptată ulterior pentru televiziune. Prin The Five, ea își consolidează poziția de voce autoritară în istoria „de jos în sus”, primind prestigioasa distincție Baillie Gifford.

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Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction and of the Goodreads Choice Award for History & Biography

The award-winning, best-selling book that changes the narrative of the “Ripper” murders forever

Polly, Annie, Elisabeth, Catherine, and Mary Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from some of London’s wealthiest and poorest neighborhoods, from the factory towns of middle England, and from Wales and Sweden. They wrote ballads, ran coffeehouses, lived on country estates; they breathed ink dust from printing presses and escaped human traffickers.
What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. The person responsible was never identified, but the character created by the press to fill that gap has become far more famous than any of these five women. Now, in this gripping narrative of five lives, Hallie Rubenhold finally sets the record straight and gives these women back their stories.

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A New York Times Book Review ‘Summer Reading Best True Crime’   A Washington Post ‘20 Books to Read This Summer’   An Oprah.com ‘20 Best True Crime Books That’ll Make You Want to Sleep With the Lights On’   “Rubenhold has produced a significant study of how poor and working-class women subsisted in an unforgiving age.”—The New York Times Book Review    “Hallie Rubenhold’s hard-edged, heartbreaking biographies of the five women killed by Jack the Ripper over two months in 1888 offer a blistering counter-narrative to the ‘male, authoritarian, and middle class’ legend of a demonic superman preying on prostitutes… Her riveting work, both compassionate group portrait and stinging social history, finally gives them their due.”—The Washington Post   “The five London women murdered by Jack the Ripper, in 1888, were long assumed to be prostitutes. This history shows otherwise, presenting deeply researched portraits of the victims as they lived: they were all poor, some to the point of homelessness; they were all apparently killed while asleep; and, with one exception, they were known by family and acquaintances not to be prostitutes. Each had a distinct story that has never been fully or truthfully told. Why Victorians preferred to embrace the myth is one question that guides the book; why we continue to do so is another.”—The New Yorker     “All too often, murder victims’ stories are relegated to the footnotes of history, overshadowed by not only their violent ends, but the looming specter of their killers. In The Five, historian Hallie Rubenhold sets out to correct this imbalance, placing the focus on [the victims] rather than the still-unidentified serial killer who ended their lives in 1888.”—Smithsonian   “An effort to remedy the Ripper imbalance.”—Time   “A must for Ripperologists.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review   “Essential to students of Ripperiana.”—Kirkus Reviews   “Focusing on [the victims] backstories rather than the forensic details of their deaths, Rubenhold puts them back into their larger social context.”—Jezebel    “Jack the Ripper continues to be a mystery, but these women are now less so.”—Bust    “Rubenhold does a commendable job in bringing these women on stage and through their stories illuminating the appalling reality behind the veneer of Victorian complacency. For these women, and millions like them, life in Victorian England was not an episode of Masterpiece Theater.”—New York Journal of Books   “The Five is a long-overdue investigation that shines the spotlight on [the victims], giving context to who they were and what circumstances molded their lives.”—Hypable    “At last, the Ripper's victims get a voice...An eloquent, stirring challenge to reject the prevailing Ripper myth."  —The Mail on Sunday     “[A]n angry and important work of historical detection…The Five is not simply about the women who were murdered in Whitechapel in the autumn of 1888: it is for them. This is a powerful and a shaming book, but most shameful of all is that it took 130 years to write.” —The Guardian   "A remarkable feat of d —

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WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2019THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An angry and important work of historical detection, calling time on the misogyny that has fed the Ripper myth. Powerful and shaming' GUARDIANPolly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales.

They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-traffickers. What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. Their murderer was never identified, but the name created for him by the press has become far more famous than any of these five women.

Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, historian Hallie Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, and gives these women back their stories. WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS FOR HISTORY 2019PRAISE FOR THE FIVE'Gripping' New York Times'At last, the Ripper's victims get a voice... An eloquent, stirring challenge to reject the prevailing Ripper myth.' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Devastatingly good.

The Five will leave you in tears, of pity and of rage.' LUCY WORSLEY'Dignity is finally returned to these unfortunate women.' PROFESSOR DAME SUE BLACK'Haunting' SUNDAY TIMES'What a brilliant and necessary book' JO BAKER, author of Longbourn'Beautifully written and with the grip of a thriller, it will open your eyes and break your heart.' ERIN KELLY'An outstanding work of history-from-below ... magnificent' THE SPECTATOR'Deeply researched' THE NEW YORKERAWARDS FOR THE FIVE- Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction 2019- Hay Festival Book of the Year 2019- Shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction- Shortlisted for the Historical Writers' Association Non-Fiction Crown Award- A New York Times, Sunday Times, Daily Mail, GQ, Washington Post, Oprah Winfrey Magazine and Independent Summer read/History Book of the Year - Winner of the Goodreads Choice Awards for History 2019