Imperial Women of Rome: Power, Gender, Context (Boatwright Mary T.)(Pevná vazba)

Imperial Women of Rome: Power, Gender, Context (Boatwright Mary T.)(Pevná vazba)

The Imperial Women of Rome explores the constraints and activities of the women who were part of Rome's imperial families from 35 BCE to 235 CE, the Roman principate. Boatwright uses coins, inscriptions, papyri, material culture, and archaeology, as well as the more familiar but biased ancient

S.P.Q.R: A History of Ancient Rome (Beard Mary)(Pevná vazba)

Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a 'mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride and murderous civil war' that served as the seat of power for an empire that spanned from Spain to

Gender before Birth: Sex Selection in a Transnational Context (Bhatia Rajani)(Pevná vazba)

Women at Work: Rhetorics of Gender and Labor (Gold David)(Pevná vazba)

Women at Work presents the field of rhetorical studies with fifteen chapters that center on gender, rhetoric, and work in the US in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Feminist scholars explore women's labor evangelism in the textile industry, the rhetorical constructions of leadership within

Augustus and the Destruction of History - The politics of the past in early imperial Rome(Pevná vazba)

Radicalizing Her: Why Women Choose Violence (Gowrinathan Nimmi)(Pevná vazba)

An urgent corrective to the erasure of the female fighter from narratives on gender and power, demanding that we see all women as political actors. 'Violence, for me, and for the women I chronicle in this book, is simply a political reality.' Though the female fighter is often seen as an anomaly,

The Trouble with Women in Power: Leaders Who Dared to Change the World (Gaulme Dominique)(Pevná vazba)

An important contribution to the contemporary discussion of gender and power, this work presents more than eighty women who, in the face of significant obstacles, acted courageously to change the world. From Cleopatra to Angela Merkel, Harriet Tubman to Eva Peron, and Empress Dowager Cixi to Joan

Fenwomen - A Portrait of Women in an English Village (Chamberlain Mary)(Pevná vazba)

Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern (Beard Mary)(Pevná vazba)

From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 years What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we

Virago Book Of Women Travellers. (Morris Mary)(Pevná vazba)

A reissue of The Virago Book of Women Travellers, featuring writing by Gertrude Bell, Edith Wharton, Isabella Bird, Kate O'Brien, Mary Wollstonecraft, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and many

Coping with Gender Inequities: Critical Conversations of Women Faculty (Thompson Sherwood)(Pevná vazba)

Women faculty, their experiences, their assessments of the commitment that is made, and the standards that are in place, can determine if there is a sincere attempt to provide wholesome and nurturing working conditions in universities. We want to learn how women faculty perceives their personal and

The Women of Easter: Encounter the Savior with Mary of Bethany, Mary of Nazareth, and Mary Magdalene (Higgs Liz Curtis)(Pevná vazba)

ECPA BESTSELLER - This giftable Bible study for the Lenten season explores the stories of three women who played a vital role in the life and ministry of Jesus, as well as in the events of that first Holy Week that first Easter. With unforgettable insights and powerful life application for today's

Women Don't Poop and Other Lies: Toilet Trivia, Gender Rolls, and the Sexist History of Pooping (Miller Bonnie)(Pevná vazba)

Gendered Power - Educated Women of the Meiji Empress' Court (Suzuki Mamiko)(Pevná vazba)

Privilege - A smart, sharply observed novel about gender and class set on a college campus (Adkins Mary)(Pevná vazba)

From the author of When You Read This, a smart, sharply observed novel about gender and class on a college campus in the spirit of The Female Persuasion and

Sarai Mari: Speak Easy (Mari Sarai)(Pevná vazba)

Japan-born, New York-based fashion photographer Sarai Mari has always been interested in the gender roles men and women play within society. This volume celebrates all notions of gender and

Gender in Debate from the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance (Fenster T.)(Pevná vazba)

Modern scholarship generally treats the 'debate about women' (querelle des femmes) as a late medieval phenomenon, perhaps touched upon by canonic authors like Chaucer but truly begun by Christine de Pizan (1364-1429), and therefore primarily of English and French origin. That emphasis has obscured

Gender Differences in Public Opinion: Values and Political Consequences (Lizotte Mary-Kate)(Pevná vazba)

In this era in which more women are running for public office--and when there is increased activism among women--understanding gender differences on political issues has become critical. In her cogent study, Mary-Kate Lizotte argues that assessing the gender gap in public support for policies

Gender and Political Theory: Feminist Reckonings (Hawkesworth Mary)(Pevná vazba)

Western political theory typically incorporates certain assumptions about sex and gender as natural, unvarying and 'pre-political.' This book critically examines these assumptions and shows how recent scholarship undermines the illusion that bodies exist outside politics and beyond the reach of the

Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia's Quest for World Power (Afinogenov Gregory)(Pevná vazba)

The untold story of how Russian espionage in imperial China shaped the emergence of the Russian Empire as a global power.From the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, the Russian Empire made concerted efforts to collect information about China. It bribed Chinese porcelain-makers to give up trade

Midnight: Three Women at the Hour of Reckoning (Shorr Victoria)(Pevná vazba)

Midnight is a study in the courage of three women--Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Joan of Arc. Jane Austen was poor in 1802, unmarried and homeless. She had outlines, ideas, and first drafts of her future novels but no place to sit and write them. It is at this bleak moment that she receives an

Performing Women: Gender, Self, and Representation in Late Medieval Metz (Crowder Susannah)(Pevná vazba)

This study investigates the 'exceptional' staging of the life of Catherine of Siena by a female actor and a female patron in 1468 Metz. Integrating new approaches to drama, gender and patronage, it offers an original paradigm of female performance that positions women at the core of public

Stories of Independent Women from 17th-20th Century: Genteel Women Who Did Not Marry (Furness Charlotte)(Pevná vazba)

As the fight for women's rights continues, and whilst men and women alike push for gender equality around the globe, this book aims to introduce readers to four women who, in their own way, challenged and defied the societal expectations of the time in which they lived.Some chose to be writers,

Poems of Rome(Pevná vazba)