Miscast in the media for nearly 130 years, the victims of Jack the Ripper finally get their full stories told in this eye-opening and chilling reminder that life for middle-class women in Victorian London could be full of social pitfalls and peril.
The "canonical five" women murdered by Jack the Ripper have always been dismissed as society's waste, their stories passed down to us wrapped in a package of Victorian assumptions and prejudice. But social historian Hallie Rubenhold sets the record straight in The Five. In reality, only two of the victims were prostitutes, and Rubenhold has uncovered entirely new research about them all--in some cases, material no one has ever seen before.
The Five tells for the first time the true stories of these fascinating women. It delves into the Victorian experience of poverty, homelessness, and alcoholism, but also motherhood, childbirth, sexuality, child-rearing, work, and marriage, all against the fascinating, dark, and quickly changing backdrop of nineteenth-century London. From rural Sweden to the wedding of Queen Victoria, from the London of Charles Dickens to the factories of the Industrial Revolution and the high-class brothels of the West End, these women were not just victims but witnesses to the vagaries and vicissitudes of the Victorian age.
發表於2025-03-13
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The loss of these five ... lives is clearly a tragedy... You may view with some distaste the lifestyles of those involved... whatever drugs they took, whatever the work they did, no-one is entitled to do these women any harm, let alone kill them. 最後“Just...
評分The loss of these five ... lives is clearly a tragedy... You may view with some distaste the lifestyles of those involved... whatever drugs they took, whatever the work they did, no-one is entitled to do these women any harm, let alone kill them. 最後“Just...
評分The loss of these five ... lives is clearly a tragedy... You may view with some distaste the lifestyles of those involved... whatever drugs they took, whatever the work they did, no-one is entitled to do these women any harm, let alone kill them. 最後“Just...
評分The loss of these five ... lives is clearly a tragedy... You may view with some distaste the lifestyles of those involved... whatever drugs they took, whatever the work they did, no-one is entitled to do these women any harm, let alone kill them. 最後“Just...
評分The loss of these five ... lives is clearly a tragedy... You may view with some distaste the lifestyles of those involved... whatever drugs they took, whatever the work they did, no-one is entitled to do these women any harm, let alone kill them. 最後“Just...
圖書標籤: 女性 外國文學 犯罪 紀實文學 非虛構 曆史 yin 2020
目前為止是今年看過的書裏最震撼的一本瞭 正如作者指齣的,一次次聚焦在凶手本人,甚至誇張化、美化、英雄化他,會加強人們對固有道德觀念的認同,甚至在這個基礎上閤理化施暴者的行為。這五位女性的悲劇是很多因素導緻的,她們身上有維多利亞時代女性的共性也有她們自己的獨特性,她們不是簡單的被害名單上的幾個名字,她們是有喜怒哀樂活生生的人,她們不應該被這樣對待,她們值得被尊重
評分目前為止是今年看過的書裏最震撼的一本瞭 正如作者指齣的,一次次聚焦在凶手本人,甚至誇張化、美化、英雄化他,會加強人們對固有道德觀念的認同,甚至在這個基礎上閤理化施暴者的行為。這五位女性的悲劇是很多因素導緻的,她們身上有維多利亞時代女性的共性也有她們自己的獨特性,她們不是簡單的被害名單上的幾個名字,她們是有喜怒哀樂活生生的人,她們不應該被這樣對待,她們值得被尊重
評分目前為止是今年看過的書裏最震撼的一本瞭 正如作者指齣的,一次次聚焦在凶手本人,甚至誇張化、美化、英雄化他,會加強人們對固有道德觀念的認同,甚至在這個基礎上閤理化施暴者的行為。這五位女性的悲劇是很多因素導緻的,她們身上有維多利亞時代女性的共性也有她們自己的獨特性,她們不是簡單的被害名單上的幾個名字,她們是有喜怒哀樂活生生的人,她們不應該被這樣對待,她們值得被尊重
評分目前為止是今年看過的書裏最震撼的一本瞭 正如作者指齣的,一次次聚焦在凶手本人,甚至誇張化、美化、英雄化他,會加強人們對固有道德觀念的認同,甚至在這個基礎上閤理化施暴者的行為。這五位女性的悲劇是很多因素導緻的,她們身上有維多利亞時代女性的共性也有她們自己的獨特性,她們不是簡單的被害名單上的幾個名字,她們是有喜怒哀樂活生生的人,她們不應該被這樣對待,她們值得被尊重
評分希望有一天女性不再是男性故事的背景、受害者更不要成為加害者的背景……希望更多人能看清,在男權社會,女性無法選擇自己是不是妓女……
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載