1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910959981703321

Autore

Flax Jane

Titolo

Resonances of Slavery in Race/Gender Relations : Shadow at the Heart of American Politics / / by J. Flax

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2010

ISBN

9786613066909

9781283066907

1283066904

9780230117464

0230117465

Edizione

[1st ed. 2010.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Collana

Breaking Feminist Waves, , 2945-7009

Disciplina

305.800973

Soggetti

America - Literatures

Race

Sex

Feminism

Feminist theory

African Americans

Culture

North American Literature

Race and Ethnicity Studies

Gender Studies

Feminism and Feminist Theory

African American Culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

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

Introduction : we aren't there yet -- Shadow at the heart : race/gender domination and the melancholia of American politics -- Melancholia : a genealogy -- Fabricating subjectivity : monster's ball, the deep end and crash as enactments of race/gender in the contemporary United States -- Paradise lost : domination, citizenship and the limits of political liberalism -- Politics for fallen angels : subjectivity, democratic



citizenship, and undoing race/gender melancholia -- In-conclusion : remedies and constraints.

Sommario/riassunto

Jane Flax argues that a reciprocal relationship exists between unconscious processes and race/gender domination and that unless we attend to these unconscious processes, no adequate remedy for the malignant consequences of our current race/gender practices and relations can be devised. Flax supports her arguments using a variety of sources.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910956322703321

Autore

Kuehn Thomas <1950->

Titolo

Heirs, kin, and creditors in Renaissance Florence / / Thomas Kuehn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008

ISBN

0-511-38156-5

1-107-18527-0

0-511-38626-5

9786611254971

0-511-38262-6

0-511-38443-2

0-511-38729-6

0-511-38828-4

1-281-25497-5

0-511-51180-9

0-511-38045-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 237 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

346.45/51052

Soggetti

Inheritance and succession - Italy - Florence - History

Renunciation of inheritance - Italy - Florence - History

Florence (Italy) History 1421-1737

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-226) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface: The ambivalence of inheritance -- Introduction: Of inheritance



and kinship -- Family and inheritance -- Florentine laws regulating inheritance and repudiation -- Repudiation and inheritance -- Profile of Florentine repudiation and inheritance -- Repudiations and household wealth -- Repudiation as an inheritance practice -- Repudiations in dispute.

Sommario/riassunto

This study, based on Florentine repudiations of inheritance, reveals that inheritance was not simply an automatic process where the recipients were passive, if grateful. In influential European societies of the past, it was in fact a process that continued long after the deceased's death. Heirs also had options: at the least, to reject a burdensome patrimony, but also to manoeuvre property to others and to avoid (at times deceptively, if not fraudulently) the claims of others to portions of the estate. Repudiation was a vestige of Roman law that once again became a viable legal institution with the revival of Roman law in the Middle Ages. Florentines incorporated repudiation into their strategies of adjustment after death, showing that they were not merely passive recipients of what came their way. Further, these strategies fostered family goals, including continuity across the generations.