Eva's journal

Today I haven't accomplished much work-wise - I've made myself pretty for some promotional photos for the radio programme I'm a regular participant in ("Alltinget": people can e-mail, write and call in and ask questions to a panel of scholars/scientists from Gothenburg University). taken said photos and then been to see my rheumatologist for the annual check-up. I've also started reading a most wonderful book that I found in the University Library the other day: Fresh Lipstick- Redressing Fashion and Feminism by Linda M. Scott. I have only read three chapters but I already think that it's one of those really important books for anyone interested in feminism. Some of the things she says are old news for me, but probably not to most, but most is really exciting and important research. It deals exclusively with feminism in the US, but though there are differences the similarities are enough to make one ask some important questions also about the history of european feminism in regard to class and to the politics of appearance.
And talking about appearance - this is how I looked today:

to the workers of western Europe, in 1919.
He was a great man - and his memoirs make good reading too.

I'm hungry, or at least peckish, but there's nothing to eat at home. And I'm really too lazy to go to the shop.
But I'm reading Patrick J. Geary's "The Myth of Nations. The medieval origins of Europe", which I really think everybody should read; it's that good and also really important.

Thank all gods for the Jesus and Mary Chain, for Teeange Fanclub, for New Order, etc, etc - they force me to enjoy life even when I have to read about the First World War, it's really the most depressing topic in the world: all that slaughter, and for what?

I am currently reading The myth of absolutism by Nicholas Henshall and it's extremely annoying. I have read 70 pages and I already know everything he is going to say on the subject. He's like a record stuck in his tracks, repeating the same things again and again. He is disputing the whole concept of absolutism and sets out to prove that there was nothing even resembling it in 17th or 18th century France; that the reign of Louis XIV didn't involve anything new, but just continued in the old mediaeval ways. But unfortunately he is so biased in his reasoning that you just end up being annoyed and thoroughly fed up.
The problem is that I have a test of this book and two others next thursday so I really have to read the whole book.