Suffrage : Women Fight for the Vote
Extraits
Non classé
A Life of Her Own
This study reconstructs Brittain's feminist theory, which mainly refutes assumptions made about women, supports companionate marriage, and demands the communal reorganization of child care and domestic work to enable a married woman to work outside her home. It compares her theory to her five novels. Doing so, it uncovers revealing feminist 'flaws', above all that marriage remains, the sine qua non for a woman's happiness. The study describes Brittain's way to the top as a formidable obstacle race, in which she constantly had to fight the men she loved, her children, her parents, and resulting domesticity in order to find time to write "the book of the decade". She reached her goal with the publication of Testament of Youth in 1933.
11/1996
Non classé
The Search for Lyonnesse
Although Mme de Lafayette is acknowledged as the founder of the modern novel, her precise legacy has been understood only in relation to male-authored texts. However, she wrote as a woman, addressing issues that concerned women of her day, particularly the problem of the apparent incompatibility of sexual fulfilment and the institution of marriage. This study seeks to identify how La Princesse de Clèves was interpreted by three of Mme de Lafayette's most talented women successors and to show how their more sombre and subversive view of society was mediated in works of fiction which have strong affinities with the contes de fées for which they are well known. The novels of Mlle Bernard, Mme d'Aulnoy and Mlle de La Force are significant, not simply for what they tell us about themselves as women writers but also for what they reveal about the origins of the eighteenth-century novel.
07/1999
Littérature française
Mehersthan Memoir (Meher Baba)
Mehersthan Memoir (Meher Baba) This book is dedicated to the unique One who has assumed a form and name to lead the play of universal existence. He throbs in our loving heart ; He breathes in our living soul. He sings in our fervent spirit and he thinks in our purified mind. That infinite Ancient One from his supernal height, bends towards us to embrace us in his love, and to feed our soul with the nectar of his bliss. Blessed are they that have the mind to know him, the heart to feel him and the love to live in his consciousness ! He may have been born to human parents in Poona, studied in a college, played cricket, left home, have seen great souls, sat alone silent, spoken in gestures, written books - but that is not his history. Many live such a life ; many scholars write books ; many saints sit in contemplation ; many monks leave home for mountain resorts ; but they cannot be one like him. Millions of bulbs challenge in vain the darkness of night. One sun rises and the night dissolves into his golden light. One sun rises and the night dissolves into his golden light. We have seen monks, yogins and saints. Some live alone for peace. Some open Ashrams and collect donations to run them. Some comercialise their name and form. Some display miracles to surprise human minds ; some offer boons ; some predict the future ; some curse you when you do not offer them what they want. Some seek pleasure and treasure. But who seeks God and finds God in the self to awaken God-awareness in other men and women ? Who says "I am God and you are God too"? Who rises above the prattle of words, the rattle of weapons and battle of ideologies to the lofty peace of supersonic silence and pours his blessings from the dizzy height of the soul in tune with God ? Who is he that embraces all in the heart and awakens the soul which has none of the human creations of caste, religion, race, pedigree nor colour ? Editions ASSA, Christian Piaget
07/2017
Littérature française
Handicapped
The mere fact of existing is already a battle of every moment, but that of being born a woman is seen as the most arduous of battles, in a society that considers women not only less than men, but below men. The simple attributes devolved to human being are sometimes denied to them, under the indifferent eye of the society. Who is to blame for this general contemptuous attitude vis-à-vis the woman ? The man ? Society ? Or the woman herself ? Woman parenthood, excision, rape, sexual harassment, the prison, early marriages and widowhood are core points tackled in the seven short stories of this book where the main characters ; Micheline, Amina, Jenaëlle, Ann-Lise, Lucie, Violet and Bernadette shall each take the reader through their stories using their own words. Based on true stories, these fictions are a personal move to throw more light on the stumbling blocks faced by the woman in her struggle for optimal fulfillment. Through the life stories clearly depicted in this book, most readers can picture their own lives, the lives of a mother, a sister, a friend or a daughter. Two objectives constitute the backbone of this book ; draw attention on the way the woman is perceived by the African society and Cameroon in particular and raise awareness in the woman so that she can come to understand that the key to her destiny lies within herself and nowhere else. Hence the need to portray womanhood as society sees it : a handicap.
10/2020
Monographies
Fuseli and the Modern Woman. Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism
This catalogue accompanies the first exhibition devoted to a fascinating group of drawings by the Anglo-Swiss Henry Fuseli (1741-1825), one of eighteenth-century Europe's most idiosyncratic, original and controversial artists. Best known for his notoriously provocative painting The Nightmare, Fuseli energetically cultivated a reputation for eccentricity, with vividly stylised images of supernatural creatures, muscle-bound heroes, and damsels in distress. While these convinced some viewers of the greatness of his genius, others dismissed him as a charlatan, or as completely mad. Fuseli's contemporaries might have thought him even crazier had they been aware that in private he harboured an obsessive preoccupation with the figure of the modern woman, which he pursued almost exclusively in his drawings. Where one might have expected idealised bodies with the grace and proportions of classical statues, here instead we encounter figures whose anatomies have been shaped by stiff bodices, waistbands, puffed sleeves, and pointed shoes, and whose heads are crowned by coiffures of the most bizarre and complicated sort. Often based on the artist's wife Sophia Rawlins, the women who populate Fuseli's graphic work tend to adopt brazenly aggressive attitudes, either fixing their gaze directly on the viewer or ignoring our presence altogether. Usually they appear on their own, in isolation on the page ; sometimes they are grouped together to form disturbing narratives, erotic fantasies that may be mysterious, vaguely menacing, or overtly transgressive, but where women always play a dominant role. Among the many intriguing questions raised by these works is the extent to which his wife Sophia was actively involved in fashioning her appearance for her own pleasure, as well as for the benefit of her husband. By bringing together more than fifty of these studies (roughly a third of the known total), The Courtauld Gallery will give audiences an unprecedented opportunity to see one of the finest Romantic-period draughtsmen at his most innovative and exciting. Visitors to the show and readers of the lavishly illustrated catalogue will further be invited to consider how Fuseli's drawings of women, as products of the turbulent aftermath of the American and French Revolutions, speak to concerns about gender and sexuality that have never been more relevant than they are today. The exhibition showcases drawings brought together from international collections, including the Kunsthaus in Zurich, the Auckland Art Gallery in New Zealand, and from other European and North American institutions.
12/2022
Thèmes photo
RED for Executive Women
RED for Executive Women® est un projet artistique pour la promotion de l'égalité des femmes et des hommes. RED for Executive Women® donne la parole aux femmes. Selon une trame commune, chacune a rédigé un texte personnel et une pensée inspirante qui accompagnent les portraits dans les expositions, dans le beau livre et sur le site Internet. RED for Executive Women® investit pour l'Egalité Femmes-Hommes. 30% des bénéfices de la vente des tirages photographiques seront reversés à des associations promouvant l'Egalité Femmes-Hommes. RED for Executive Women® a choisi 100 femmes Ce chiffre est un hommage assumé à Reporters Sans Frontières et sa collection 100 photos pour la Liberté de la presse. Ces femmes, les plus représentatives possibles des femmes d'aujourd'hui, sont toutes impliquées et engagées dans le combat pour l'égalité dans leur milieu professionnel.
11/2021
Roman d'amour, roman sentiment
Fight the past
"Anna Brown, une jeune femme de vingt-huit ans, se réveille un beau jour à l'hôpital. Elle ne se souvient ni de son nom ni de ce qui aurait pu l'amener là. Alors qu'elle tente désespérément de recouvrer la mémoire et se demande pourquoi personne ne lui rend visite, un médecin lui apprend qu'elle est enceinte. Complètement anéantie par cette nouvelle inattendue, elle fait la connaissance de son premier visiteur : Chris Johnson, un jeune militaire et ami d'enfance. Anna ne se rappelle pas qui il est, mais ressent immédiatement une attirance envers lui. Peu à peu, ils vont tenter de recoller les pièces du puzzle de sa vie. Ni Anna ni Chris n'envisageaient être embarqués dans de telles péripéties. Le jeune militaire ne pouvait imaginer le virage qu'allait prendre sa vie en venant au chevet de son amie. Il ne s'attendait pas non plus à devoir faire appel à toutes ses ressources ainsi qu'à sa formation militaire pour arracher Anna aux griffes de son passé. Que cache réellement le passé d'Anna ? Pour quelles raisons des hommes la suivent dès sa sortie de l'hôpital ? Anna, parviendra-t-elle à surmonter les blessures causées par ce sombre et lourd passé ? "
10/2022
Comics
Nomen Omen Tome 1 : Total Eclipse of the Heart
Dans le monde de Nomen Omen, il est plus important de voir avec son coeur qu'avec ses yeux. Becky, Rebecca Kumar de son vrai nom, est une jeune New-Yorkaise plutôt dégourdie et geek qui a deux mères attentionnées et deux chiens. Elle est atteinte d'achromatopsie, ce qui signifie qu'elle est incapable de voir les couleurs. Mais cela ne l'empêche pas de poster des photos sur son compte Instagram _nomen.omen_. La nuit de son vingt et unième anniversaire, entourée de ses amis, la jeune femme découvre bien malgré elle que le monde est plus vaste qu'elle ne l'avait jamais imaginé...
01/2020
Comics divers
Nomen Omen Tome 3 : As the World Falls Down
La fin approche ! Tandis que Becky, la sorcière, et Taranis, le Roi, s'affrontent, le rituel de Medea change à jamais le monde de Nomen Omen. Survivre à des changements si drastiques sera difficile, et la tragédie peut survenir au détour de chaque page. La mort, la culpabilité et la vengeance seront-elles au bout du chemin ? Après tout, c'est la fin de tout ! Ultime chapitre de l'épopée de Marco B. Bucci et Jacopo Camagni, une production Panini Comics publiée aux Etats-Unis chez Image Comics. Une réussite dans le style très particulier de l'Urban Fantasy.
09/2021
Photographie
City Night Light
Ce livre marque l'achèvement de dix années de photographies par Philong Sovan, jeune photographe cambodgien talentueux, sur la vie nocturne des villes de son pays. Lorsque les touristes dorment et que l'éclairage public inexistant plonge la plupart des quartiers dans l'ombre, le photographe enfourche sa petite motocyclette, débusquant dans la lumière de son phare un monde qu'il ignorait. Dans une écriture photographique tout en couleurs denses et en cadrages précis, jouant avec les faibles lumières de l'activité humaine augmentées seulement de celles de son véhicule, il dresse de la vie cambodgienne et de sa capitale Phnom Penh un portrait intense et flottant à la fois, plein d'étonnement pour la galerie de personnages dont il partage brièvement l'existence dans une clarté fulgurante.
05/2022
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
THE WOMAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH. Alice Stewart and the secrets of radiation
THE WOMAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH tells the engaging life story of the epidemiologist whose discoveries about radiation risk have revolutionized medical practice and challenged international nuclear safety standards. For more than forty years, Dr. Alice Stewart has warned that tow-dose radiation is far more dangerous than has been acknowledged. Although an outstanding scientist with more than 400 peer-reviewed papers to her name, her controversial work has only recently begun to receive significant attention, because it lies at the center of a political storm.
In the 1950s when doctors would routinely x-ray pregnant women, she began research at Oxford that led to the discovery that fetal x-rays doubted a child's risk of developing cancer. When she was in her seventies, she again astounded the scientific world by showing that the U.S. nuclear weapons industry was far more dangerous than commonly believed, a finding that embroiled her in an international controversy over radiation risk. In recent years, she has become one of a handful of independent scientists whose work is a lodestone to the antinuclear movement. In 1990, the New York Times called her "perhaps the Energy Department's most influential and feared scientific critic."
The Woman Who Knew Too Much traces Dr. Stewart's life and career from her early childhood in Sheffield and medical education at Cambridge to her research positions at Oxford and the University of Birmingham, where she still maintains an office. The book joins a growing number of biographies of pioneering women scientists such as Barbara McClintock, Rosalind Franklin, and Lise Meitner and will find a wide range of appreciative readers, including those interested in the history of science and technology and of the history of women in science and medicine. Activists and policymakers will also find the story of Alice Stewart compelling reading.
02/2000
Non classé
Brides on Sale
Beginning in the 1990s large numbers of women from Mainland China and Southeast Asia married men in Taiwan. They now number over 400,000, warranting some to call them "Taiwan's Fifth Ethnic Group". This book argues that the rise of these marriages is a gendered and relational phenomenon, linked to the forces of globalization. Traditional ideas of marriage, such as the belief that a woman "marries out" of her natal family to be dependent upon her husband and his family, and the idea that a man should "marry down" to a woman of a lesser social and economic status, have not kept pace with changes in women's educational and career opportunities. How these relationships are formed, how they impact gendered understandings of women and men, how families are constituted and relationships developed, and how they affect the children of these families and their education, are the issues explored in this book. It breaks new ground in our understanding of transnational and cross-border marriages by looking at the long-term effects of such marriages on communities, families, and individuals.
04/2015
Littérature érotique et sentim
Fight for Love : Racer
Lana travaille en famille dans le monde très masculin de la Formule 1. Son père est malade et son rêve est de voir sa petite écurie remporter le championnat, au moins une fois. Cependant la situation financière de l'entreprise ne permet pas de recruter un pilote star. Lana décide alors de prendre les choses en main et de montrer enfin à ses frères qu'elle a sa place parmi eux. Elle était à la recherche d'un pilote. Mais elle ne s'attendait pas à l'arrivée de Racer Tate dans sa vie. Racer est pilote de courses de rue. Il est sexy, téméraire et mystérieux. C'est lors d'un accrochage qu'il va faire la connaissance de Lana. Il se revendique "le meilleur pilote du monde" et est bien décidé à le lui prouver. Mais Racer a également un lourd secret. Lana va tenter d'apprivoiser tous les reliefs de sa personnalité complexe.
01/2020
Monographies
Hilma af Klint. The Five Notebook 1
In 1896, Hilma af Klint and four other like-minded women artists left the Edelweiss Society and founded the "Friday Group", also known as "The Five". They met every Friday for spiritual meetings, including prayers, studies of the New Testament, meditation and séances. The medium exercised automatic writing and mediumistic drawing. Eventually they established contact with spiritual beings whom they called "The High Ones". In 1896, the five women began taking meticulous notes of the mediumistic messages conveyed by the spirits. In time, Hilma af Klint felt she had been selected for more important messages. After ten years of esoteric training with "The Five", aged 43, Hilma af Klint accepted a major assignment, the execution of The Paintings for the Temple. This commission, which engaged the artist from 1906 to 1915, changed the course of her life. In 1908, Rudolf Steiner, leader of the German Theosophical Society, held several lectures in Stockholm. He also visited af Klint's studio and saw some of the early Paintings for the Temple. In 1913, Steiner founded the Anthroposophical Society, which af Klint joined in 1920 and remained a member for the rest of her life.
01/2022
Non classé
Portraits of Women in Selected Works of Gabriele Reuter
Known primarily for the novel, Aus guter Familie, Gabriele Reuter has not yet been accorded the attention she deserves for her contribution to German literature in general and women's writing in particular. The precisely observed portraits of women in the novels discussed in this volume allow us to experience the complex interplay of societal norms and individual needs which shape feminine existence. Among the themes treated are misguided motherhood, the virtue of the unwed mother, the conflict between the will to be and the need to love and be loved, woman's role in the political sphere and a comparison of womanhood in two generations. One of the enduring pleasures of reading Reuter is the rich variety of female characters from the early part of the twentieth century.
12/1987
Littérature étrangère
The Night
The Night est un immense roman choral dont les voix multiples nous saisissent et nous plongent non seulement dans les ténèbres d'une ville, Caracas, et dans l'histoire d'un pays, le Venezuela, mais aussi dans les profondeurs de notre époque désorientée, imprévisible et violente. Les trois protagonistes - Miguel Ardiles, le psychiatre qui affronte quotidiennement la folie, Matías Rye, l'écrivain raté et drogué qui anime un atelier d'écriture, et Pedro Alamo, le publicitaire hanté par les mots et leurs combinaisons infinies - vont prendre la parole à tour de rôle, et leurs récits vont s'enchaîner et s'entremêler sans répit, sans temps morts, comme autant de rêves et de cauchemars durables. Un même thème parcourt en sourdine leurs histoires. Car si Miguel enregistre secrètement les paroles de ses patients, si Matías prend constamment des notes pour écrire un jour ce roman qui sera The Night, si Pedro enfin se perd dans les jeux de mots (principalement des anagrammes et des palindromes), c'est pour tenter de déchiffrer le mystère de la maladie qui les ronge et nous ronge : la présence du mal et son pouvoir sur nos vies. De plus, ils partagent tous une fascination obsessionnelle pour un certain Darío Lancini, ancien guérillero, poète et auteur mythique d'un ouvrage de palindromes, Oír a Darío . Sa rencontre sera l'occasion, lors du deuxième chapitre, d'un récit biographique riche en aventures, une formidable plongée dans les années 1950 à 1970, entre le Venezuela, la France et l'Europe de l'Est. Ce récit enchâssé alterne biographies d'auteurs, citations littéraires (de Mann à Neruda, en passant par Jarry, Aragon et García Márquez) et références à l'histoire de la guerre froide. Dominé par les engagements politiques et littéraires, par la fougue et l'esprit de liberté, il contraste fortement avec les deux autres parties du roman, ancrées dans un contexte contemporain de crise et de dégradation. Roman vivant, ambitieux, à l'imagination visionnaire et puissante, The Night engage sur la violence une réflexion à la fois d'une grande actualité et d'une grande profondeur, cherchant à travers la littérature, le crime et la psychiatrie, les racines d'un mal rampant. Le caractère aléatoire et éphémère de tout édifice, l'idée que le chaos mine toute tentative de construction est une des idées fortes du livre, exprimée par la métaphore du jeu Tetris qui structure secrètement la narration jusqu'à la fin. En plus d'une métaphore du texte lui-même, c'est aussi une forme d'interprétation de la réalité, parfaitement illustrée par les récits en miroir de la vie des trois protagonistes et de Darío Lancini. On a immédiatement envie de relire ce roman à multiples strates, dont la réussite tient à la rencontre rare d'une vision puissante de la littérature - et particulièrement du langage poétique - et d'une épaisseur existentielle. L'écriture issue de cette rencontre est forte, juste et très contemporaine. Carmen Balcells l'avait bien vu : Blanco-Calderón a un vrai talent.
05/2016
Comics divers
The Kabuki Fight : Alpha
Le Kabuki, cet art théâtral asiatique joué uniquement par des femmes, puis uniquement par des hommes a bien changé, car en plus du théâtre, ils s'affrontent sur scène devant des centaines de spectateurs. Meiyo, Pietro et Rose sont 3 combattants aux enjeux très personnels et aux destins mêlés.
06/2021
Théâtre
Arrival of Mira, Love story between Bhojan and Mira
Arrival of Mira Foreword Arrival of Mira tells the story of a beautiful young woman who held true to her faith despite many severe hardships. Mira was still only a child when she decided that Ginidhara Gopal (Lord Krishna) was her 'husband' and that she wanted to devote her life to serving and worshipping him. Later, the now orphaned Mira was married to Bhojan, the prince of Mewar and son of Rana, the king of Chittoor. Bhojan fell in love at first sight but found it hard to understand Mira's utter devotion to Ginidhara. Mira suffered at the hands of her in-laws who could not understand the depth of her love for Ginidhara and wanted her to follow their worship of Kali (in the form of Durga). Mira suffered imprisonment in a haunted palace and then exile for her beliefs. Even her friends were persecuted because of her uncompromising love for Lord Krishna. Eventually Bhojan came to understand his wife's piety. The story is told in the form of a musical play where the love story is interwoven with delightful songs and dances. The character of Mira is one to win the hearts of all who read of her. Her gentle devotion and steadfast belief are an inspiration to everyone. Thank you, Dr Shuddhananda Bharati for having made this beautiful story available to us. Daye Craddock Editions ASSA, Christian Piaget
03/2013
Roman d'amour, roman sentiment
Fight for Love Tome 1
Deux caractères forts qu'un désir charnel intense, pur et obsessionnel consume. Une histoire d'amour sous tension et des personnages d'une rare complexité. Star de la ligue underground, Tate Remington est un boxeur à l'animalité exacerbée dont le pouvoir de séduction rend folles toutes les filles autour du ring. Depuis qu'il a croisé son regard, la seule femme à laquelle il pense, celle qu'il a choisie, c'est Brooke, ancienne athlète de haut niveau qui, suite à un accident, s'est reconvertie dans la thérapie sportive. Mais pour que leur histoire devienne bien réelle, Remington devra se dévoiler à Brooke...
07/2022
Romance sexy
Fight for Love Tome 2
Mouvementé, intense et érotique, MINE vous poussera dans les cordes et vous en redemanderez ! Dans le best-seller international REAL, tome 1 de la série Fight for Love, le si sexy bad boy de la ligue underground de boxe, Remington Tate rencontre enfin son âme soeur. Engagé pour s'occuper de sa condition physique, Brooke Dumas provoque en lui un désir intense et elle devient pour " Remy " aussi nécessaire que l'air qu'il respire. Il ne peut plus vivre sans elle. Brooke n'avait jamais imaginé qu'elle ferait sa vie avec l'homme dont toutes les femmes rêvent. Malheureusement tous les rêves ne deviennent pas réalité et au moment où ils ont le plus besoin l'un de l'autre, Brooke doit s'éloigner du ring et donc de Remy. Entre eux la distance et la noirceur s'installent et la seule chose que Brooke puisse faire est de se battre pour l'amour de cet homme qu'elle surnomme " LE MIEN ".
07/2022
Romance sexy
Fight for Love Tome 3
Dans REAL et MINE, Brooke nous a plongé de l'univers de Remington Tate. Comment un homme aussi complexe que Rémy a-t-il vécu leur histoire ? Laissez-le vous raconter son point de vue. Boxeur star de la ligue underground, Remington Tate est un mystère, même pour lui-même. Son esprit est à la fois sombre et lumineux, torturé et plein d'espoir. Si son comportement et son humeur sont souvent tout en mesure, il peut aussi d'un coup perdre tout contrôle. Aucune femme avant Brooke Dumas n'a connu ses secrets les plus intimes, ses pensées les plus profondes. Mais dès qu'il pose ses yeux sur elle, il sait sans l'ombre d'un doute, que la seule raison qu'il aura désormais de se battre, ce sera elle. A partir de là, il n'aura qu'une obsession : vouloir, désirer, aimer et protéger Brooke. Maintenant que ce couple si intense et si sexy a réussi à surmonter ses énormes difficultés, Katy Evans vous propose d'entrer dans l'esprit de Remy.
07/2022
Littérature érotique et sentim
Deadline. Tome 2, For Fight
Depuis qu'il est en âge de se battre, Luka Stevens aime les défis. A seulement dix-neuf ans, il est l'une des rock Star du groupe Deadline. Quand la belle Emie croise son regard lors d'une interview radio, il songe déjà à compléter son tableau de chasse. Seulement, la jeune femme farouche au caractère bien trempé, n'a pas l'intention de tomber dans ses filets.
07/2019
Non classé
Bonoure and Buxum
If married in church, medieval women vowed before God and their husbands to be ‘bonoure and buxum', that is, meek and obedient in bed and at table. This book is a study of wives in a variety of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century romance, fabliaux, cycle drama, life-writing, lyrics and hagiography. The volume examines key moments that defined life as a married woman : her eligibility to become a wife, the wedding ceremony, her conjugal rights and duties, childbirth and her contribution to the family economy. The book explores the way in which the literary representation of wives is in dialogue with discourses that strove to construct and regulate the role of ‘wife'; canon and secular law, marriage liturgy, medical treatises on the female body, sermons, manuals of spiritual instruction, biblical paradigms, conduct books and misogamous writings. Moreover, the volume examines the possibilities for subversion of these paradigms by listening to literary wives speak both within and against these discourses. Real women's attitudes, and strategies of subversion, are woven into the volume throughout, as recorded in church and manorial court records, in their wills and in their writing.
08/2006
Religion
Like Man, Like Woman
Modern scholarship often discusses Roman women in terms of their difference from their male counterparts, frequently defining them as ‘other'. This book shows how Roman male writers at the turn of the first century actually described women as not so different from men : the same qualities and abilities pertaining to the domains of parenthood, intellect and morals are ascribed by writers to women as well as to men. There are two voices, however : a traditional, ideal voice and an individual, realistic voice. This creates a duality of representations of women, which recurs across literary genres and reflects a duality of mentality. How can we interpret the paradoxical information about Roman women given by the male-authored texts ? How does this duality of mentality inform us about gender roles and gender hierarchy ? This work analyses well-known, as well as overlooked, passages from the writings of Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, Suetonius, Quintilian, Statius, Martial and Juvenal and sheds new light on Roman views of women and their abilities, on the notions of private and public and on conjugal relationships. In the process, the famous sixth satire of Juvenal is revisited and its topic reassessed, providing further insights into the complex issues of gender roles, marriage and emotions. By contrasting representations of women across a broad spectrum of literary genres, this book provides consistent findings that have wide significance for the study of Latin literature and the social history of the late first and early second centuries.
07/2013
Monographies
Venice. A Private Invitation
Venice of a thousand reflections ; Venice of mirror and glass, of silk and gold ; Venice of light and lace, of transparency and porcelain. With her expert knowledge and insight, Servane Giol takes us to the heart of the Venetian art de vivre, a warm and private invitation to meet some of the most creative people living in the city today. Accompanying us into historic private palazzi as well as more recently restored houses and apartments, she introduces us to a new generation of artists and designers who are attracted by the radiant beauty, energy, and lifestyle of the Serenissima-a charmed circle of talented friends who are bringing a fresh dynamism and elegance to the city, shining a new light on some of its rarest and most exquisite traditional crafts, and lovingly safeguarding them for future generations. This love letter to the hidden beauties of Venice and to the skills for which the city is famed is brilliantly complemented by the photography of Mattia Aquila. It offers both a revelation and an everlasting memory for all those who will never forget their dazzling first sight of the domes, the campaniles, and the shimmering golden silence of this legendary city that floats between sea and sky.
09/2022
Droit
Activation Policies for the Unemployed, the Right to Work and the Duty to Work
Since the 1990s and the 2000s, Western social protection systems have experienced a turn towards activation. This turn consists of the multiplication of measures aimed at bringing those who are unemployed closer to participation in the labour market. These measures often induce a strengthening of the conditions that must be met in order to receive social benefits. It is in this well known context that the authors gathered in this book decided to take a closer look at the relationship between activation policies for the unemployed and the right and the duty to work. If activation measures are likely to increase transitions towards the labour market, we can also make the assumption that they may, particularly when they are marked with the seal of coercion, hinder or dramatically reduce the right to freely chosen work. In such circumstances, the realisation of the "right to work", which is often stated to be the aim of those who promote activation, tends in practice to be reduced to an increasing pressure being exerted on the unemployed. In this case, isn't it actually the duty to work that is particularly reinforced ? After an historical and philosophical perspective on the issue, this assumption is confronted with the developments observed in the United States and in France, and then with the guidelines laid down in international human rights instruments. What follows is a discussion of two alternatives to the dominant activation model : the basic income guarantee and the employment guarantee.
06/1987
Littérature française
My Ulster haven
1989, a 23-year-old French woman, an English student with a burdensome family background, leaves for Northern Ireland. She's on her way to start her French assistant job. She discovers this unknown part of Ireland, so underestimated and still plunged into civil war. There, she settles down and blossoms until she decides she actually wants to live there. An unexpected event will bring her back to France in 1991, but the link with this country will carry on until the Brexit announcement in 2016, and well beyond. An intimate journey to the core of Irish History, that reaches the depths of its wars, its men, its women, a journey at the very heart of the past. "A page of history - and of my history - is turning and it throws me off."
02/2022
Romans noirs
Because the night
C'est après l'effondrement, ou le Grand Chaos, ou encore le merdier, "quand tout le bordel est tombé sur la tête de l'humanité"â- A la sortie d'un enterrement et malgré sa méfiance Angus - ce n'est pas son vrai nom - accepte de rejoindre une micro-communauté qui survit dans un village de basse montagne. Bientôt les vivres manquent et le groupe compte sur lui pour un raid d'approvisionnement sur un mystérieux entrepôt. Que cherche Angusâ? Est-il vraiment là par hasardâ? Dans ce court roman impressionnant, sans chapitres, Gilles Vidal poursuit son oeuvre littéraire. Il joue ici avec les codes du roman post-apocalyptique. A quoi pense-t-on quand le futur est videâ? La mémoire du narrateur ne lui laisse aucun repos. Entre nostalgie et remords, les images du passé s'enchaînent, bousculant les propres souvenirs des lecteurs. Jusqu'à la saturation, et l'obscurité.
03/2022
Littérature érotique et sentim
Only For a Night
Après cette nuit, plus rien ne sera comme avant. Comment Julia a-t-elle pu se retrouver dans une situation pareille ? Déjà, cela ne l'enchantait pas de passer le week-end avec les amis d'Adrien - en particulier cette Clara qui tourne autour de son mec depuis le début -, mais désormais elle nage en plein cauchemar. Car le groupe a lancé un défi : échanger les couples pendant les douze prochaines heures. Et, alors qu'elle pensait à une blague, Adrien, lui, n'a pas hésité une seconde et s'est éclipsé avec la fameuse Clara... laissant Julia en tête à tête avec Olivier, cet homme qu'elle a toujours trouvé mystérieux et qui ne lui a jamais adressé la parole. Pourtant, quand elle croise son regard plein d'empathie, Julia se dit qu'elle devrait peut-être apprendre à le connaître. "Only For a Night est une jolie histoire qui accroche par une intrigue captivante". Blog les étoiles des bibliothèques "Une lecture bien sympathique qui nous plonge dans une histoire alliant émotions, désirs, intrigue captivante et des protagonistes aussi attachants que détestable par moment". Blog Chroniques par milliers A propos de l'autrice Axelle Vegaécrit tous les jours, que ce soit sur un ordinateur, des cahiers, des post-it ou sur la liste des courses. Son imagination est débordante, et elle trouve l'inspiration dans tout ce qui l'entoure.
09/2020
Romance sexy
Crossfire Tome 2 : Fight for me
Prisonnière de Paolo, Amalia vit un enfer. Il souhaite la briser, mais Amalia ne compte pas lui faciliter la tâche. Malgré tout, l'espoir que Joshua la secoure s'amenuise de jour en jour... Mais Josh refuse de faire le deuil d'Amalia. La rage lui brûle les entrailles depuis qu'elle a disparu. Et c'est cette fureur de vivre, de vaincre, qui le poussera à la retrouver. A n'importe quel prix. " Amalia a su se glisser une place dans mon coeur et c'est bien ce dernier qui hurle que je la lui ramène parce que, sans elle, il ne bat qu'à moitié. "
06/2022
