Gendered Perceptions of Florentine Last Supper Frescoses C. 1350-1490

By almost any measure Bernardino Barbatelli, called Poccetti, was a successful and sought after painter in late sixteenth-century Florence, but his works have remained largely over...

By almost any measure Bernardino Barbatelli, called Poccetti, was a successful and sought after painter in late sixteenth-century Florence, but his works have remained largely over...

Class is a particularly troublesome issue in the United States and other rich capitalist societies. In this feminist analysis of class, noted sociologist Joan Acker examines and as...

This chapter deals with an episode in The Book of Peace of the Mahābhārata in which a spiritually powerful yet protean almswoman, Sulabhā, encounters a King Janaka. It enquires int...

Now available in paperback with a new foreword from Victor Ray You Don't Look Like a Lawyer: Black Women and Systemic Gendered Racismhighlights how race and gende...

Abstract They say that we come from different planets (men from Mars, women from Venus), that we have different brain chemistries and hormones, and that we listen...

The history explored in this chapter focused on the Florentine Histories allows us to understand the concepts and proposals for the political reform of Florence that Machiavelli ad...

Abstract This book describes the forms of estate management, and the way they changed, around Florence and Lucca during the central Middle Ages. It is based mainly o...