That is why I, personally, call it Herstory. The facts get cleared or corrected and the light shines on some heroic act of a women we were uninformed about.
What a wonderful review of what sounds like a terrific book. Ethel Rosenberg being slowly liberated from the fractured fairytale that her story became in public gives me hope that more women's stories will be rescued from the ashes of our misogynist histories.
That is why I, personally, call it Herstory. The facts get cleared or corrected and the light shines on some heroic act of a women we were uninformed about.
Agreed--and while many historians have commented on the misogyny in this case, no one has ever thought before to really imagine Ethel's agency.
What a wonderful review of what sounds like a terrific book. Ethel Rosenberg being slowly liberated from the fractured fairytale that her story became in public gives me hope that more women's stories will be rescued from the ashes of our misogynist histories.