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Vittoria Colonna marquioness of Pescara was involved in the Catholic Reform during the first half of XVI century. She was very close to cardinal Gasparo Contarini and cardinal Reginald Pole. Also she had paintings by Titian and... more
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      Women's History, Lutheranism, Heresy and Inquisition, Francisco de Hollanda
Książka jest kolejną publikacją pokonferencyjną Interdyscyplinarnego Seminarium Gender, tym razem otwierającą przed czytelniczkami i czytelnikami perspektywę globalną. Poświęcona jest nie tylko dominacji i opresji, jakiej doświadczają... more
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      Women's History, Feminizm
Mad women running on top of the mountains without the supervision of their husbands, ingestion of mind-altering concoctions, ecstatic nocturnal dancing to the rhythm of the frame drum, ritual sexuality, these and more are the ingredients... more
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      Women's Studies, Women's History, Anthropology Of Dance, Altered States of Consciousness
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      Women's History, American Religion, Mormonism, Mormon History
Abstract I beni della nobiltà nel Friuli moderno: un quadro d’insieme e alcuni casi di rivendicazioni maschili e femminili a cavallo del confine La realtà geopolitica presa in esame è quella del Friuli moderno, spartito, dopo la caduta... more
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      Women's History, Gender History, Border Studies, Habsburg Studies
On Thursday October 31st at 5pm Palazzo Torres in Rome will held the presentation of the book about the history of the female Confraternity of Sant'Anna in S. Pantaleo, created in 1640 by St Joseph Calasanz, the founder of the first... more
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      Women's Studies, Women's History, Cult of Saints, Saints' Cults
At the height of the mid-twentieth-century domestic revival, middle-class Jewish women created forms of “leisured domesticity,” marked by temporary female-only recreational spaces in their family-centered arenas. In contrast to other... more
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      American History, Women's History, Recreation & Leisure Studies, Domesticity
This is the text accompanying an exhibit and sale of my quilts, now on display at the Country Store and Farm, Vashon Island, WA. It is on display from 10/10 to 11/5/19, and five of the eleven quilts are for sale. I am thrilled to... more
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      Women's History, Textiles, Local History, Quilts and quilt cultures
The first batch of Filipino workers in Denmark arrived in the years 1960-1973 and thus prior to the formal institution of ‘labor export’ as a Philippine state policy in 1974. However, some of the Filipino Pioneers, as this generation... more
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      Political Economy, Women's History, Migration, Labor Migration
This paper examines the waqf (religious endowment) deed of Tatarkhān (Cairo, Wizārat al-Awqāf, no. q913), the daughter of the Mamluk amir Ṭashtamur and explains the process by which the testamentary waqf, which was a waqf established... more
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      Women's History, Mamluk Studies, Medieval Islam, Islamic Studies
This article re-examines József Deér’s claim that the crown uncovered in the tomb of Constance of Aragon (d. 1222) was originally her husband’s. His argument is based entirely on the shape of the crown itself, and ignores the context of... more
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      Gender Studies, Medieval History, Women's History, Medieval Studies
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      Women's History, Women Writers, Turkish women writers
This essays collected in this cluster reimagine the modern working woman from the vantage of #metoo, tracing her navigation of networks of power—from domestic work to education, from the hospital to the Hollywood studio—in literature,... more
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      Women's Studies, Feminist Theory, Women's History, Sexual Violence
In The Representations of Women in the Middle Kingdom Tombs of Officials Ľubica Hudáková offers an in-depth analysis of female iconography in the decorative programme of Middle Kingdom non-royal tombs, highlighting changes and innovations... more
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      Women's History, Ancient Egyptian Iconography, Middle Kingdom (Egyptology), Tomb decoration (Egyptian)
L’engagement des femmes catholiques dans l’institution ecclésiale a conduit, au XXe siècle, à bouleverser les représentations admises des rôles féminins dans l’Église. Puisant dans leur foi chrétienne la source de leur action, ces femmes... more
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      Women's History, History of Roman Catholicism
In 1873 George Ott committed his wife Dr. Anna B. Ott, a physician with a nearly twenty-year practice, to the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane. She remained there until her death in 1893. By diagnosing Ott with mania, state... more
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      Women's History, Disability Studies, History of Medicine, Critical Disability Studies
Segundo a teórica feminista Teresa de Lauretis, o cinema se enquadra enquanto uma tecnologia do gênero, ou seja, uma técnica e estratégia discursiva pela qual as relações de gênero são construídas e operadas. Nota-se, portanto, que não se... more
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      Gender Studies, Media Studies, Women's Studies, Feminist Theory
Entrevista concedida ao site Mulheres no Horror em julho de 2017
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      Cultural History, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Women's History
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      Economic History, Women's Studies, Medieval History, Women's History
This paper is a rebuttal to the concept that women in Hebraic texts lived under a patriarchal system in which they were married off as "property"
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      Women's History, Religion and Sexuality, Hebrew Bible, Gender and Sexuality