Embodied Histories Clothing & Fashion Manufacture he slips through her fingers

he slips through her fingers

Working in watercolour for the first time

through their own actions

state and country

inner city

Embodied Histories Clothing & Fashion Manufacture he slips through her fingersExplores the emergence of a new womanhood in turn of the century Vienna. In Embodied Histories, historian Katya Motyl explores the everyday acts of defiance that formed the basis for new, unconventional forms of womanhood in early twentieth century Vienna. The figures Motyl brings back to life defied gender conformity, dressed in new ways, behaved brashly, and expressed themselves freely, overturning assumptions about what it meant to exist as a