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This enlightening book aims to fill the gap in the literature on
women's lives from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-seventeenth
century, a time in which Italian urban societies saw much debate on
the nature of women and on their roles, education and behaviour.
Indeed these were debates which would in subsequent years resonate
throughout Europe as a whole. Using a broad range of contemporary
source material, most of which has never been translated before,
this book illuminates the ideals and realities informing the lives
of women within the context of civic and courtly culture. The text
is divided into three sections: contemporary views on the nature of
women, and ethical and aesthetic ideals seen as suitable to them;
life cycles from birth to death, punctuated by the rites of passage
of betrothal, marriage and widowhood; women's roles in the convent,
the court, the workplace, and in cultural life. Through their
exploration of these themes, Rogers and Tinagli demonstrate that
there was no single 'Renaissance woman'. The realities of women(1)s
experiences were rich and various, and their voices speak of
diverse possibilities for emotionally rich and socially useful
lives. This will be essential reading for students and teachers of
society and culture during the Italian Renaissance, as well as
gender historians working on early modern Europe. -- .
The anthology of original sources from c.1400 to 1650, translated
form Italian or Latin, and accompanied by introductions and
bibliographies, is concerned with women's varied involvement with
the visual arts and material culture of their day. The readers
gains a sense of women not only as patrons of architecture,
painting, sculpture and the applied arts, but as users of art both
on special occasions, like civic festivities or pilgrimages, and in
everyday social and devotional life. As they seek to adapt and
embellish their persons and their environments, acquire paintings
for solace or prestige, or cultivate relationships with artists,
women emerge as discerning participants in the consumer culture of
their time, and often as lively commentators on it. Their fervent
participation in religious life is also seen in their use of art in
devotional rituals, or their commissioning of tombs or altarpieces
to perpetuate their memory and aid them in the afterlife. -- .
Unlike any text to date, this revolutionary study surveys Black
research and literature to determine the processes formal education
uses to dehumanize Black students. This is a socio-historical
analysis of the Black Flame trilogy (BFT), W. E. B. Du Bois's
unparalleled, thirty-year study of Atlanta, Georgia from Black
Reconstruction (1860 - 1880) to 1956. W.E.B. Du Bois is one of the
most prescient sociologists of the twentieth century in his
research of Black people in America. These ground-breaking novels
establish racialization, colonization, and globalization as
processes that continue to dehumanize Black students in education.
Africana critical theory (ACT), critical race theory (CRT), and
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS) privilege the research, voice,
and experiences of Blacks. These theoretical frames speak to the
pain and effects of the impact of unchecked, gross, voyeuristic
violence that helps define the White supremacist patriarchal
culture in which we live. Straight forward and direct, this book
show how the processes of dehumanization contribute to the legacy
of trauma White supremacy exacts upon Black people and their
humanity. This study is aimed at highlighting the stark disparities
in Black and White education over times. This book offers a candid
look at how the myth of Black inferiority and the metaphor of the
achievement gap describe conscious economic deprivation, mob
violence and intimidation, and White supremacist curricula, yet
continues to imply long-standing cultural notion of Blacks
intellectual inferiority. This research is offered to help mitigate
the multigenerational education trauma Blacks have experienced
since Reconstruction to envision a educational system that is
efficacious and socially just in the distribution of resources,
expanding diversity in curricula, and exposing pedagogical biases
that traumatize not only Black people but all people.
This title was first published in 2000: Fashioning Identities
analyses some of the different ways in which identities were
fashioned in and with art during the Renaissance, taken as meaning
the period c.1300-1600. The notion of such a search for new
identities, expressed in a variety of new themes, styles and
genres, has been all-pervasive in the historical and critical
literature dealing with the period, starting with Burckhardt, and
it has been given a new impetus by contemporary scholarship using a
variety of methodological approaches. The identities involved are
those of patrons, for whom artistic patronage was a means of
consolidating power, projecting ideologies, acquiring social
prestige or building a suitable public persona; and artists, who
developed a distinctive manner to fashion their artistic identity,
or drew attention to aspects of their artistic personality either
in self portraiture, or the style and placing of their signature,
or by exploiting a variety of literary forms. Several papers also
attend to the fashioning of identities and meanings in Renaissance
art by the spectator or critic and the ways in which these might or
might not differ from those that were intended by the patron or
artist. Though several of the studies deal with relatively little
known material, from Ferrara, Brescia, or Tudor England, the
majority aim to treat well known artists and works, such as Giotto,
Michelangelo or Cellini, in a fresh way. Most of the essays are
based on papers given at the conference of the Association of Art
Historians held in 1998.
In this Volume, published in1998, Fifteen scholars reveal the ways
of preserving, conceiving and creating beauty were as diverse as
the cultural influenced at work at the time, deriving from antique,
medieval and more recent literature and philosophy, and from
contemporary notions of morality and courtly behaviour. Approaches
include discussion of contemporary critical terms and how these
determined writers' appreciation of paintings, sculpture,
architecture and costume; studies of the quest to create beauty in
the work of artists such as Botticeli, Leonardo, Raphael,
Parmigianino and Vasari; and the investigation of changes
functioning of the eye and brain, or to technical innovations like
those found in Venetian glass.
Originally published in 2000. Fashioning Identities analyses some
of the different ways in which identities were fashioned in and
with art during the Renaissance, taken as meaning the period
c.1300-1600. The notion of such a search for new identities,
expressed in a variety of new themes, styles and genres, has been
all-pervasive in the historical and critical literature dealing
with the period, starting with Burckhardt, and it has been given a
new impetus by contemporary scholarship using a variety of
methodological approaches. The identities involved are those of
patrons, for whom artistic patronage was a means of consolidating
power, projecting ideologies, acquiring social prestige or building
a suitable public persona; and artists, who developed a distinctive
manner to fashion their artistic identity, or drew attention to
aspects of their artistic personality either in self portraiture,
or the style and placing of their signature, or by exploiting a
variety of literary forms.
In this Volume, published in1998, Fifteen scholars reveal the ways
of preserving, conceiving and creating beauty were as diverse as
the cultural influenced at work at the time, deriving from antique,
medieval and more recent literature and philosophy, and from
contemporary notions of morality and courtly behaviour. Approaches
include discussion of contemporary critical terms and how these
determined writers' appreciation of paintings, sculpture,
architecture and costume; studies of the quest to create beauty in
the work of artists such as Botticeli, Leonardo, Raphael,
Parmigianino and Vasari; and the investigation of changes
functioning of the eye and brain, or to technical innovations like
those found in Venetian glass.
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F**K Fear (Hardcover)
P Angel Marie Rogers
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Reckoning (Paperback)
Stephanie Baldi; Contributions by Mary Rogers
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To Rogers, an award-winning columnist for the ""Fort Worth
Star-Telegram"", that term signifies a pact between the writer, the
subject and the reader: only when stories eliminate artifice and
express honest beliefs and emotions can they merit attention and
trust. It's a phrase and philosophy unique to Rogers, and as a
result the stories in ""Dancing Naked: Memorable Encounters with
Unforgettable Texans"" are unique, too. You've never read anything
like them, and besides making you think, Rogers' lyrical writing
style and memorable insights into the traumas and triumphs of the
human spirit will make you feel.Published in the ""Star-Telegram""
from 1991 through 2007, the stories of ""Dancing Naked"" present a
compelling look at a variety of Texans (a few famous, and all
unforgettable) and include a half-dozen essays from Rogers about
her own colorful life. It's a collection that will touch and
inspire every reader, which is what fine writing is supposed to
accomplish.
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F**K Fear (Paperback)
P Angel Marie Rogers
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Redemption (Paperback)
Stephanie Baldi; Cover design or artwork by Mary Rogers
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