Pope and the Pill. Sex, Catholicism and Women in Post-War England, Paperback - David Geiringer

This book uses original oral history material and secretive Vatican papers to explore the sexual and religious experiences of Catholic women in pos...

This book makes innovative use of migrant life histories to further understanding the role of memory in the production of migrant identities. Offer...

In today's world, many believe that everyday life has become selfish and atomised-that individuals live only to consume. Jon Lawrence argues that t...

Reducere. In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, the female silhouette underwent a dramatic change. This very structured form, created using garments ...

This book explores an important moment in Italian women's theatre and cultural history: plays written for all-women casts between 1946 and the mid-...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This study explores Beckett's representation of physical pain in his theatre plays in the long aftermath of World War II, emphasising how the issue...

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We all tend to get involved in our work, put our noses down, try to do it diligently, and are sometimes not aware of what is happening around us. O...

Contributor(s): Author: Meika LoeSince its introduction in 1998, Viagra has launched a new kind of sexual revolution. Quickly becoming one of the m...

Reducere. Do women have sex simply to express love, experience pleasure, or reproduce? When clinical psychologist Cindy M. Meston and evolutionary psychologi...

Experimental cinema, as well as experimental video practices, have always been art forms widely explored by women. Yet, while the field of cinema s...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: David M. HalperinEditor: Trevor HoppeThe past fifty years are conventionally understood to have witnessed an uninterrupted ...

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'He built an imposing artistic social history that promises to join those of his great forebears in the long, noble line of the English novel. His ...

Abstraction in Post-War British Literature explores the ways in which writers and thinkers responded to non-representational art in the decades fol...

Unique insight into the unseen history and evolution of the collaboration between the US Department of Defense and the CIA.Publisher: The Universit...

Reducere. When it comes to lovers, oral sex needs to be a high priority skill. The absence of Oral Sex is a deal breaker according to 70% of women who say th...

The first full treatment of women and warfare in Classical Greece and Rome. Addresses the neglected subject of the role of women in war in the Clas...

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Reducere. We know it simply as "the pill, " yet its genesis was anything but simple. Jonathan Eig's masterful narrative revolves around four principal charac...

Employing a rigorous methodological approach and analysing a vast body of sources from towns and regions in Italy, France and England over 300 year...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Isabelle de le (Independent Scholar, Switzerland) CourtIllustration(s): 35 bw illusNumber of pages: ...

Most of the women who ever lived left no trace of their existence on the record of history. In this book, Suzannah Lipscomb recovers the lives and ...

An unconventional and illuminating new history of British landscape art in the post-war period

Reformation without end conceives of eighteenth-century English history as a late chapter in the nation's long Reformation. Contemporaries thought ...

New B-format paperback - This fascinating book explores the status of women in medieval England, both before and after the Norman Conquest.Publishe...

MEDIEVAL WOMEN looks at a thousand years of English history, as it affected - and was made by - women.Publisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor(s): Henr...

This book explores both the monarchy and everyday life, covering everything from famous scandals, morality and contraception to Tudor fashion and a...

'The Darkened Room' looks at the central role played by women as healers, mediums, and believers in the golden age of spiritualism in the late Vict...

Reducere. In Separated by Their Sex, Mary Beth Norton offers a bold genealogy that shows how gender came to determine the right of access to the Anglo-Americ...

One of the world's leading writers on propaganda and information projection presents a remarkably detailed history and critique of the workings and...

Reducere. This book is primarily a reference for the Ten Commandments as rendered in the Leningrad Codex, which is the oldest, complete manuscript of the Heb...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ruth BarrettFemale Erasure is a dynamic collection of diverse voices speaking out against gender identity politics, exposin...

Children of the 1950s have much to look back on with fondness: Muffin the Mule, Andy Pandy, and Dennis the Menace became part of the family for man...

Concepts of Time in Post-War European Music gives a historical and philosophical account of the discussions of the nature of time and music during ...

An exploration of the influence of gender on the workings of memory in the Middle Ages, focussing on the non-elite.Illustrations: No

Explores the expectations and experiences of women in the crucial period between the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution.

'An important contribution to our recent history' ANDREW MARR 'Absorbing and important' JOAN BAKEWELL 'One of my favourite reads of 2021' GARETH RU...

Reducere. The author grew up in Germany during the postwar era, when the United States evolved from a military occupation force to a peacetime cultural power...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Eugene B. (Director and Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) RumerNumber of pages: 248C...

Reducere. Karl Geiringer's biography of Brahms is generally regarded as the finest study of the composer ever published in any language. It is based upon the...