Incredibly entertaining first half which is pretty eye opening about where versions of Tudor history have come from. The second half is less compelling, but still interesting. Analysis of a couple of Anne related media and a nice bashing of the shit The Other Boleyn Girl.A brief, but really inter...
was about to realize a deeply held longing. The child of immigrants from Russia and Poland, Wallis had grown up in a Chicago tenement, in an Eastern European Jewish enclave of garment workers and small shopkeepers. And from an early age, he adored all things British. As soon as he had made enough...
Gender, she argued, is so thoroughly fragmented by race, class, historical particularity, and individual difference as to be useless as an analytical category. The "bonds of womanhood," she insisted, are a feminist fantasy, born out of the ethnocentrism of white, middleclass academics.<><...