1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460313503321

Autore

Sogno Cristiana <1969->

Titolo

Q. Aurelius Symmachus [[electronic resource] ] : a political biography / / Cristiana Sogno

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2006

ISBN

1-282-64457-2

9786612644573

0-472-02562-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (155 p.)

Disciplina

937/.08/092

B

Soggetti

Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin - History and criticism

Letter writing, Latin - History - To 1500

Latin letters - History and criticism

Legislators - Rome

Orators - Rome

Electronic books.

Rome History Valentinian I, 364-375 Biography

Rome History Theodosians, 379-455 Biography

Rome Politics and government 284-476

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-136) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Laying the foundations of a political career : the Orationes -- Rise and fall of an urban prefect : the Relationes -- Maintaining friendships, building alliances, and protecting the family : the Epistulae.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910743210903321

Autore

Pinto Samantha

Titolo

Infamous bodies : early Black women's celebrity and the afterlives of rights / / Samantha Pinto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2020

ISBN

9781478093800

1478093803

9781478007838

1478007834

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Disciplina

811.1

Soggetti

Women, Black, in popular culture

African American women in popular culture

Women, Black - Legal status, laws, etc

African American women - Legal status, laws, etc

African American feminists

Womanism

Fame - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. Infamous Bodies, Corrective Histories -- 1. FANTASIES OF FREEDOM. Phillis Wheatley and the “Deathless Fame” of Black Feminist Thought -- 2. THE ROMANCE OF CONSENT. Sally Hemings, Black Women’s Sexuality, and the Fundamental Vulnerability of Rights -- 3. VENUS AT WORK. The Contracted Body and Fictions of Sarah Baartman -- 4. CIVIC DESIRE. Mary Seacole’s Adventures in Black Citizenship -- 5. #DEVELOPMENTGOALS. Sovereignty, Sarah Forbes Bonetta, and the Production of the Black Feminist Political Subject -- CONCLUSION. Black Feminist Celebrity and the Political Life of Vulnerability -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Samantha Pinto explores how histories of and the ongoing fame of Phillis Wheatley, Sally Hemings, Sarah Baartman, Mary Seacole, and



Sarah Forbes Bonetta generate new ways of imagining black feminist futures."--