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Confined by behavioural norms and professional restrictions, women in Renaissance Italy found a welcome escape in an alternative world of play. This book examines the role of games of wit in the social and cultural experience of patrician women from the early sixteenth to the early eighteenth century. Beneath the frivolous exterior of such games as occasions for idle banter, flirtation, and seduction, there often lay a lively contest for power and agency, and the opportunity for conventional women to demonstrate their intellect, to achieve a public identity, and even to model new behaviour and institutions in the non-ludic world. By tapping into the records and cultural artifacts of these games, George McClure recovers a realm of female fame that has largely escaped the notice of modern historians, and in so doing, reveals a cohort of spirited, intellectual women outside of the courts.
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Francesca Serritella Day ha tutto, o così crede: gioventù, bellezza, denaro, la sicurezza che ogni suo desiderio sarà soddisfatto e una madre che, per quanto nevrotica e irresponsabile, l’ha introdotta fin dalla nascita nel mondo lussuoso e patinato dell’alta società europea. Nulla di ciò che ha vissuto l’ha preparata al mondo reale, eppure è proprio lì che viene scaraventata quando, a ventun anni, si ritrova di colpo orfana e sommersa di debiti. Per guadagnarsi da vivere tenta la carriera cinematografica negli States, ma la realtà si rivela più dura del previsto… Sarà l’incontro fortuito con Dallie Beaudine – bellissimo golfista texano che si guadagna da vivere vincend...
An illustrated children's book about coronavirus based on facts, from the co-creator of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls.
"The Mafia? What is the Mafia? Something you eat? Something you drink? I don't know the Mafia. I've never seen it." Mafiosi have often reacted this way to questions from journalists and law enforcement. Social scientists who study the Mafia usually try to pin down what it "really is," thus fusing their work with their object. In Mafiacraft, Deborah Puccio-Den undertakes a new form of ethnographic inquiry that focuses not on answering "What is the Mafia?" but on the ontological, moral, and political effects of posing the question itself. Her starting point is that Mafia is not a readily nameable social fact but a problem of thought produced by the absence of words. Puccio-Den approaches covert activities using a model of "Mafiacraft," which inverts the logic of witchcraft. If witchcraft revolves on the lethal power of speech, Mafiacraft depends on the deadly strength of silence. How do we write an ethnography of phenomena that cannot be named? Puccio-Den approaches this task with a fascinating anthropology of silence, breaking new ground for the study of the world’s most famous criminal organization.
Quali sono le situazioni, le condizioni, che permettono a un bimbo e a una bimba così piccoli di crescere nella sicurezza affettiva e nel benessere in un ambiente diverso da quello di casa, con persone diverse dai gentori? Che bisogni hanno i genitori che scelgono l'Asilo Nido in questa fase? E le educatrici? Come vivono la relazione educativa con bambini e bambine così piccoli, che provocano emozioni e sentimenti forti. A queste domande si è cercato di rispondere in questo testo.
This is an amazing book, a major achievement in the field of women's studies.--Renaissance Quarterly, reviewing Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650