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Stress, " "burn out, " "mental overload": the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have witnessed an unrelenting expansion of the meaning of fatigue. The tentacles of exhaustion insinuated themselves into every aspect of our lives, from the workplace to the home, from our relationships with friends and family to the most intimate aspects of our lives. All around us are the signs of a "burn-out society, " a society in which fatigue has become t...

Dal Medioevo a oggi, l'evoluzione dell'abito femminile è intimamente legata al contesto sociale e culturale di ogni epoca. Questo libro - nel quale ampio spazio è lasciato all'iconografia (ricca di dipinti, incisioni e fotografie) - ripercorre una storia fatta di stasi e rivolgimenti, evidenziando come gli elementi caratteristici delle mode siano sempre il sintomo di una sensibilità culturale, sposino una visione del mondo, riflettano l'evoluz...

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Richly illustrated and beautifully written by leading scholar Georges Vigarello, this nuanced and ground-breaking book charts the rise of silhouette in the west during a time of enormous social and political change, revealing how and why we have become so fixated with the shape of our bodies.

This history of obesity traces the link between changing attitudes to body size and modern conceptions of class, society and self.

This important new book, by one of the leading social historians in France today, analyses the changing meaning of rape through numerous case studies across the centuries.The book begins with a history of the relative tolerance of sexual violence in early modern France, and the tendency to condemn the victims by enveloping them in the shame of the act. It then traces the changing legal attitudes to sexual violence at the end of the eighteenth ...

This important new book, by one of the leading social historians in France today, analyses the changing meaning of rape through numerous case studies across the centuries.The book begins with a history of the relative tolerance of sexual violence in early modern France, and the tendency to condemn the victims by enveloping them in the shame of the act. It then traces the changing legal attitudes to sexual violence at the end of the eighteenth ...

Tracing the link between changing attitudes toward body size and modern conceptions of class, society, and self.

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