This book covers the USA around 2000 through the lens of cultural studies: books, events, exhibitions, and places of learning are seen as mirrors of an affluent, self-sufficient, at least apparently harmonic society just before the collapse of the markets and the 9/11 tragedy. America seemed to be unaware of what history had in place for her. The country was coming to terms with its past, looking favorably towards the future, and waiting for even better times ahead. This book explores movies, from Spike Lee's to Stanley Kubrick's; cities, from Atlantic City to Philadelphia; minorities, from...

The theme of suicide was of paramount importance in Italy in the long nineteenth-century, from the French revolution to the outbreak of World War I. A number of writers, intellectuals, politicians, and artists wrote about suicide, and a very high number of people killed themselves, for several reasons. There were suicides for love and for homeland, suicides for despair, and suicides for ennui. In Italy, once a very traditional, Catholic country, where suicide was very uncommon and rarely treated as a subject of moral theology or literature, it suddenly became extremely widespread. This book...

Nella prima eta moderna l educazione della donna non e una questione privata. E un esigenza collettiva che concorre ad assicurare la stabilita dell ordine civile, di cui il sacramento del matrimonio rappresenta una delle istituzioni fondamentali. Il ruolo sociale della donna e pertanto fatto oggetto di una severa trattatistica comportamentale e sottoposto a rigorose prescrizioni normative. L analisi della documentazione rivela una precisa volonta di controllo della femminilita, senza escludere metodi coercitivi e persino brutali, come la segregazione conventuale. Questo libro indaga la...