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In 1573, the alchemist Anna Zieglerin gave her patron, the Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, the recipe for an extraordinary substance she called the lion's blood. She claimed that this golden oil...
What does the keyword "continence" in Love's Labor's Lost reveal about geopolitical boundaries and their breaching? What can we learn from the contemporary identification of the "quince" with weddings...
Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt
Oded Zinger
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512823790
Pub Date: January 2023
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
Living with the Law explores the marital disputes of Jews in medieval Islamic Egypt (1000–1250), relating medieval gossip, marital woes, and the voices of men and women of a world long gone....
At first glance, Barbara Kalish fit the stereotype of a 1950s wife and mother. Married at eighteen, Barbara lived with her husband and two daughters in a California suburb, where she was president...
Ever since the Ford Model T became a vehicle for the masses, the automobile has served as a symbol of masculinity. The freedom of the open road, the muscle car's horsepower, the technical know-how...
Fighting for Women's Economic Citizenship in the Neoliberal Era
Suzanne Kahn
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9780812252903
Pub Date: May 2021
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
In the 1970s, the divorce rate in the United States doubled, and longtime homemakers suddenly found themselves at risk of poverty, not only because their husband's job was their sole source of income,...
The Masculinity of David in the Christian and Jewish Middle Ages
Ruth Mazo Karras
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780812253023
Pub Date: April 2021
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
"How do we approach the study of masculinity in the past?" Ruth Mazo Karras asks. Medieval documents that have come down to us tell a great deal about the things that men did, but not enough about...
Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500
Dyan Elliott
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812224764
Pub Date: October 2020
Format: Paperback
480 Pages
The early Christian writer Tertullian first applied the epithet "bride of Christ" to the uppity virgins of Carthage as a means of enforcing female obedience. Henceforth, the virgin as Christ's spouse...
A collection of essays that demonstrate how LGBT people played critical roles in local, state, and national politicsIn the 1970s, queer Americans demanded access not only to health...
