1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458090303321

Autore

Fonte Moderata <1555-1592.>

Titolo

Floridoro [[electronic resource] ] : a chivalric romance / / Moderata Fonte (Modesta Pozzo) ; edited with an introduction by Valeria Finucci ; translated by Julia Kisacky ; annotated by Valeria Finucci and Julia Kisacky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006

ISBN

1-281-12562-8

9786611125622

0-226-25679-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (525 p.)

Collana

The other voice in early modern Europe

Altri autori (Persone)

FinucciValeria

KisackyJulia <1965->

Disciplina

851/.4

Soggetti

Romances, Italian - 16th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translated from the Italian.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- THE OTHER VOICE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE: INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES -- MODERATA FONTE AND THE GENRE OF WOMEN'S CHIVALRIC ROMANCES -- VOLUME EDITOR'S BIBLIOGRAPHY -- NOTE ON TRANSLATION -- FLORIDORO: A CHIVALRIC ROMANCE -- APPENDIX -- SERIES EDITORS' BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The first original chivalric poem written by an Italian woman, Floridoro imbues a strong feminist ethos into a hypermasculine genre. Dotted with the usual characteristics-dark forests, illusory palaces, enchanted islands, seductive sorceresses-Floridoro is the story of the two greatest knights of a bygone age: the handsome Floridoro, who risks everything for love, and the beautiful Risamante, who helps women in distress while on a quest for her inheritance. Throughout, Moderata Fonte (1555-92) vehemently defends women's capacity to rival male prowess in traditionally male-dominated spheres. And her open criticism of women's lack of education is echoed in the plights of various female characters who must depend on unreliable men. First published in



1581, Floridoro remains a vivacious and inventive narrative by a singular poet.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910150354403321

Autore

Garvía Soto Roberto

Titolo

Organizing the blind : the case of ONCE in Spain / / Roberto Garvía

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-317-01536-3

0-367-34909-4

1-315-55268-X

1-4724-7424-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (133 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Interdisciplinary Disability Studies

Disciplina

362.41

Soggetti

People with visual disabilities - Spain

Spain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Origins -- 2. The challenge of the original goals -- 3. A new organizational culture -- 4. The blind and people with other disabilities -- 5. Gigantism and containment -- 6. The future of ONCE.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a case study which narrates the history of the National Organization of the Spanish Blind (ONCE), established in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. Contrary to other affluent countries where most blind people live on welfare benefits, the Spanish blind enjoy full employment. Furthermore, the average income of the Spanish blind is higher than that of the sighted. Why is this so? Why the blind, and not the deaf mute, or any other group of disabled people? This book shows that ONCE answers these questions. The book explainsONCE'S origins, the shifting strategies that the organization has pursued to adapt to an ever-changing environment, its original goals and the way they have mutated and been interpreted, its conflicting relationship with an authoritarian regime, its struggle to find its place in a democratic regime, and its relations with other groups of disabled people. A



historical narrative, the book lies at the intersection between disability and organization studies, history and sociology. It will be of interest to all scholars of disability studies, the sociology of work, the history of medicine and contemporary Spanish history.