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Love in the Time of Communism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 251

Love in the Time of Communism

This pioneering study explores the surprising extent and limits of the GDR's forgotten sexual revolution.

Old Women and Art in the Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

Old Women and Art in the Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-03-09
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Though portraits of old women mediate cultural preoccupations just as effectively as those of younger women, the scant published research on images of older women belies their significance within early modern Italy. This study examines the remarkable flowering, largely overlooked in portraiture scholarship to date, of portraits of old women in Northern Italy and especially Bologna during the second half of the sixteenth century, when, as a result of religious reform, the lives of women and the family came under increasing scrutiny. Old Women and Art in the Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior draws on a wide range of primary visual sources, including portraits, religious images, architectu...

Galeazzo Ciano
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 469

Galeazzo Ciano

Through the prism of the rise and fall of Galeazzo Ciano (1903-1944), this biography is a comprehensive study of a leading member of the fascist regime other than Benito Mussolini.

Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany

A collection of essays comparing key aspects of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

Gender, Kinship and Power
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 385

Gender, Kinship and Power

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-01-27
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Through twenty engaging essays exploring cultures ranging from ancient Judaic civilization to contemporary Brazil, Gender, Kinship and Power places important contemporary issues related to kinship--such as parental responsibility and female-headed households--in their proper comparative and historical framework.

Religious Difference in a Secular Age
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 254

Religious Difference in a Secular Age

How secular governance in the Middle East is making life worse—not better—for religious minorities The plight of religious minorities in the Middle East is often attributed to the failure of secularism to take root in the region. Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges this assessment by examining four cornerstones of secularism—political and civil equality, minority rights, religious freedom, and the legal separation of private and public domains. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork in Egypt with Coptic Orthodox Christians and Bahais—religious minorities in a predominantly Muslim country—Saba Mahmood shows how modern secular governance has exacerbated religious tensions an...

Suicide Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

Suicide Century

Suicide Century investigates suicide as an increasingly 'normalised' but still deeply traumatic and profoundly baffling act in twentieth-century writing.

Images of Familial Intimacy in Eastern and Western Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 374

Images of Familial Intimacy in Eastern and Western Art

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-02-20
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Images of Familial Intimacy in Eastern and Western Art offers a comparative art and socio-historical analysis of selected images of familial intimacy in Asia and Europe from the pre-modern era to the present day based on an examination of the value systems and expectations existing at the time in the regions in which the works were created. A wide variety of images are discussed ranging from family portraits and depictions of the home in seventeenth-century Dutch genre paintings, ukiyoe prints and fusuma sliding wall panels of the Edo period, to familial images made after the Korean War of 1950-53, providing the reader with a rare insight into the evolution East and West of the cultural norms and customs impacting on the family and personal space.

Post-Fordism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 469

Post-Fordism

Part analysis of contemporary change and part vision of the future, post-Fordism lends its name to a set of challenging, essential and controversial debates over the nature of capitalism's newest age. This book provides a superb introduction to these debates and their far-reaching implications, and includes key texts by post-Fordism's major theorists and commentators.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 994

The Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe

This Companion presents an authoritative review of the current research on women and gender in early modern Europe from a multidisciplinary perspective. The authors examine women’s lives, ideologies of gender and the differences between ideology and reality through the recent research across many disciplines, including history, literary studies, art history, musicology, history of science and medicine and religious studies.