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Author: Michael Mewshaw Publisher: Sphere ISBN: 9780751508611 Category : Women tennis players Languages : en Pages : 327
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An exploration of the glory and the gossip of the women's professional tennis circuit - big money, overbearing coaches and fathers, lesbianism, sponsorships, corruption, and the sheer excitement of competing. The book was short-listed for the 1993 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.
Author: Michael Mewshaw Publisher: Sphere ISBN: 9780751508611 Category : Women tennis players Languages : en Pages : 327
Book Description
An exploration of the glory and the gossip of the women's professional tennis circuit - big money, overbearing coaches and fathers, lesbianism, sponsorships, corruption, and the sheer excitement of competing. The book was short-listed for the 1993 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.
Author: Christine de Pizan Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141961015 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 262
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Written by Europe’s first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. It paints an intricate picture of daily life in the courts and streets of fifteenth-century France and gives a fascinating glimpse into the practical considerations of running a household, dressing appropriately and maintaining a reputation in all circumstances. Christine de Pizan’s book provides a valuable counterbalance to male accounts of life in the middle ages and demonstrates, often with dry humour, how a woman’s position in society could be made less precarious by following the correct etiquette.
Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004258396 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 441
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The Politics of Female Households is the first collection that seeks to integrate ladies-in-waiting into the master narrative of early modern court studies. Presenting evidence and analysis of the multifarious ways in which ‘women above stairs’ shaped the European courts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it argues for a re-assessment of their political influence. The cultural agency of ladies-in-waiting is viewed in the reflection of portraiture, pamphlets and masques: their political dealings and patronage are revealed through analysis of letters, family networks, career patterns, gift exchange and household structures, as well as their activities in the fields of intelligence-gathering and espionage. By concentrating on a previously neglected area of female agency, this collection demonstrates clearly that the political climate of Europe was often shaped outside the male-dominated institutions of government and administration. Contributors include: Helen Graham-Matheson, Hannah Leah Crummé, Katrin Keller, Vanessa de Cruz, Birgit Houben, Dries Raeymaekers, Janet Ravenscroft, Una McIlvenna, Rosalind K. Marshall, Oliver Mallick, Cynthia Fry, Nadine Akkerman, Sara J. Wolfson, Fabian Persson, and Jeroen Duindam.
Author: Giancarla Periti Publisher: ISBN: 9780300214239 Category : ART Languages : en Pages : 0
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"This fascinating study considers the poetic and mythological artworks made for elite female monastic communities in Renaissance Italy. Nuns from the patrician class, who often disregarded obligations of austerity and poverty, commissioned sensually appealing, richly made artifacts inspired by contemporary courtly culture. The works of art transformed monastic parlors, abbatial apartments, and nuns' cells into ornate settings, thereby enriching and complicating the opposition of religious and worldly spheres. This unconventional monastic and yet courtly decoration was a new form of art in the way it entangled the sacred and the profane. The artwork was intended to edify both intellectually and spiritually, as well as to delight and seduce the viewer. Based on extensive new research into primary sources, this generously illustrated book introduces a thriving female monastic visual culture that ecclesiastical authorities endeavored to suppress. It shows how this art taught its viewers to use their eyes to gain insights about the secular world beyond the convent walls. "--
Author: Linda K. Kerber Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0809073846 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 432
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In this landmark book, the historian Linda K. Kerber opens up this important and neglected subject for the first time. She begins during the Revolution, when married women did not have the same obligation as their husbands to be "patriots," and ends in the present, when men and women still have different obligations to serve in the armed forces.
Author: Catharine MacLeod Publisher: ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 266
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This text provides an exploration and reconsideration of Restoration portraiture, considering some of the most beautiful paintings of the period, portraits of women of prominence and influence within the court of Charles II, from royal brides and daughters to mistresses and actresses.
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