1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456890103321

Autore

Anguissola Anna

Titolo

Intimità a Pompei [[electronic resource] ] : riservatezza, condivisione e prestigio negli ambienti ad alcova di Pompei / / Anna Anguissola

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter, c2010

ISBN

1-283-16592-9

9786613165923

3-11-024090-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (682 p.)

Collana

Image & context, , 1868-4777 ; ; v. 8

Disciplina

728.0937/72568

Soggetti

Architecture, Domestic - Italy - Pompeii (Extinct city)

Architecture - Italy - Pompeii (Extinct city)

Architecture, Roman - Italy - Pompeii (Extinct city)

Dwellings - Italy - Pompeii (Extinct city)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Indice -- Tavole I -- Abbreviazioni, riferimenti, avvertenze -- Premessa -- I. Forme e tempi dell'intimità -- II. Persone, oggetti e attività nel cubiculum: le fonti letterarie -- III. L'architettura dei cubicula nelle case di Pompei -- IV. I cubicula nel percorso della domus -- Tavole II -- V. Dentro al cubiculum: immagini e quotidianità -- VI. Epilogo -- Summary -- VIII. Appendice -- Tavole III -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

This book revolves around the shaping of Roman domestic space and cultural issues of privacy and representativeness. At the core is a set of lavish rooms where layout, architecture and décor bespeak the presence of one or two beds suitable for sleep or daytime rest. For the first time, the author restores the rich contextual readings regarding the dense network of location, architecture, accessibility, lighting, landscape, decoration. In Pompeian houses alcove cubicula were among the key reception rooms. Their images acted as prime symbols of power, as real weapons in strategies of distinction. Luxury, lifestyle, prestige, and the debates around them seem to be primarily related to



the design of these comparatively small environments. No other type of room shows such quick adaptation to the most up-to-date trends, owing to a series of real revolutions in fashion first developed for lavish patrician residences, then spread among medium-, later even small-size abodes throughout town. In the realm of domestic life, alcove rooms constitute a sound source for inquiring into the different tastes of Pompeii's various social groups. Defined by financial means and social affluence, their tastes ranged from aesthetics of luxury to an ordinary reception of trivialized clichés.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459832003321

Autore

Sawhill Isabel V.

Titolo

Generation unbound : drifting into sex and parenthood without marriage / / Isabel V. Sawhill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : Brookings Institution Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8157-2635-X

0-8157-2559-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 p.)

Disciplina

306.874/32

Soggetti

Unmarried mothers - United States

Unmarried fathers - United States

Youth - Sexual behavior - United States

Family planning - United States

Marriage - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Inside Flap; Title Page; Copyright Information; Table of Contents; Preface; An Introduction; The End of Marriage?; Why Should We Worry?; A Growing Class Divide; Traditionalists and Village Builders; Childbearing by Design Not by Default; The Future: Less Marriage,



Fewer Children?; Appendix; Notes; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Over half of all births to young adults in the United States now occur outside of marriage, and many are unplanned. The result is increased poverty and inequality for children. The left argues for more social support for unmarried parents; the right argues for a return totraditional marriage.In  Generation Unbound, Isabel V. Sawhill offers a third approach: change ""drifters"" into ""planners."" In a well-written and accessible survey of the impact of family structure on child well-being, Sawhill contrasts ""planners,"" who are delaying parenthood until after they marry, with ""drifters,"" who