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pro vyhledávání: '"HISTORY / Women"'
Autor:
Johanna Gehmacher
This open access book takes the biographical case of German feminist Käthe Schirmacher (1865–1930), a multilingual translator, widely travelled writer of fiction and non-fiction, and a disputatious activist to examine the travel and translation of
Autor:
David Henley, Nira Wickramasinghe
Monsoon Asia was the first venue of global trade, a zone of encounters, exchanges, and cultural diffusion. This book demonstrates the continuing fertility of the Monsoon Asia perspective as an aid to understanding what South/Southeast Asia, as a conn
This illuminating study explores African theologian Mercy Amba Oduyoye's constructive initiative to include African women's experiences and voices within Christian theological discourse.Mercy Amba Oduyoye, a renowned Ghanaian Methodist theologian, ha
Autor:
Janey Jones
Women have healed since the beginning of time, but accessing a formal degree in medicine was impossible for them in Britain until the late 19th century. In 1869, a group of women began arriving in Edinburgh to study at the medical faculty, led by the
Autor:
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
In the aftermath of the Second World War, the French government cultivated images of sensual and sophisticated white French women in an attempt to reestablish its global image as a great nation. They promoted the beauty, sexual appeal, and general al
Autor:
Elisabetta Lurgo
Prima di cingere la corona del Regno di Sardegna, i principi di Savoia-Carignano rimasero a lungo in precario equilibrio fra Torino, Versailles e Vienna. La politica funambolesca fra differenti universi curiali, abilmente guidata da Maria di Borbone,
Autor:
Susan Taylor-Leduc
Challenging the established historiography that frames the French picturesque garden movement as an international style, this book contends that the French picturesque gardens from 1775 until 1867 functioned as liminal zones at the epicenter of court
Autor:
Eileen Wirth
2023 Nebraska Book Award During the 1930s the Federal Writers'Project described Omaha as a “man's town,” and histories of the city have all but ignored women. However, women have played major roles in education, health, culture, social services,
Autor:
Martha Rampton
Trafficking with Demons explores how magic was perceived, practiced, and prohibited in western Europe during the first millennium CE. Through the overlapping frameworks of religion, ritual, and gender, Martha Rampton connects early Christian reckonin
Ubiquitous illegal lotteries known as policy flourished in Chicago's Black community during the overlapping waves of the Great Migration. Policy “queens” owned stakes in lucrative operations while women writers and clerks canvased the neighborhoo