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Eccentricity and sameness : discourses on lesbianism and desire between women in Italy, 1860s-1930s / by Ross, Charlotte, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Pathologies and passions in late nineteenth-century medical discourses -- Fatal attractions. troubling desires in the novel -- Flammable proximity: the scuola normale femminile and beyond -- From pathologization to the defence of pleasure: sexology and its parodies -- Literary luxury and cultural calls for female sexual liberation -- The desire without a name: visions of a difference that might have been -- Sexology and the new woman under fascism -- Tales of sexual initiation and sapphic feminism -- Loneliness, disorder and the disappearing lesbian.…”
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Modal subjectivities self-fashioning in the Italian madrigal / by McClary, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Night and deceit : Verdelot's Machiavelli -- The desiring subject, or subject to desire : Arcadelt -- Radical inwardness : Willaert's Musica nova -- The prisonhouse of mode : Cipriano de Rore -- The Coney Island of the madrigal : Wert and Marenzio -- The luxury of solipsism : Gesualdo -- The Mirtillo/Amarilli controversy : Monteverdi -- I modi.…”
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History of the mafia by Lupo, Salvatore, 1951-

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The legacies of two world wars European societies in the twentieth century /

Table of Contents: “…: the Hague peace conferences as a limited tool for reforming the international system before 1914 / Jost D�ulffer -- "The spirit of 1914" : a critical examination of war enthusiasm in German society / Gerhard Hirschfeld -- Construction and deconstruction of the idea of French "war enthusiasm" in 1914 / Nicolas Beaupr�e -- The mood in Britain, 1914 / Hartmut von Pogge Strandmann -- The First World War in the history of the Weimar Republic / Gerd Krumreich -- Fascism and legacy of the Great War / Angelo Ventrone -- The French desire for peace and security in the 1920's / Jean-Claude Allain -- Britain in the wake in the Great War / Jay Winter -- Germany : war without public backing / Hans Mommsen -- The French entry into the war in September 1939 : between reluctans and resignation / Barbara Lambauer -- Great Britain : declaring war as a matter of honour / Lothar Kettenacker -- Disillusionment, pragmatism, indifference : German society after the "catastrophe" / Clemens Vollnhals -- The French after 1945 : difficulties and disappointments of an immediate post-war period / Fabrice Grenard -- Great Britain : remembering a just war (1945-1950) / Toby Haggith -- Italy after 1945 : war and peace, defeat and liberation / Gustavo Corni.…”
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The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250 a literary history / by Mallette, Karla

Table of Contents: “…Toward a literary history of the Kingdom of Sicily -- An archeology of the Sicilian park -- Frederick II and the Genesis of a Sicilian romance culture -- Rereading Le Origini: Sivilian romance poetry and the language of natural philosophy -- Beyond Le Origini: Sicilian romance poetry in a feminine voice -- Vernacularity and Sicilian culture -- "In youth, the soul attains its desire" (from the Siqilliyyat) / Ibn Hamdis -- "Because of long-lasting grief" (from the Siqilliyyat) / Ibn Hamdis -- "Oh, garden of love" / Ibn Hamdis -- "You tortured me with the two elements" / Ibn Hamdis -- "Oh, blonde tribe, my blood is on your hands" / Abu Musa -- "My tears expose my love" / Abu Musa -- "Oh, Favara of the two seas!" …”
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