The proliferation of new metals-such as stainless steels, aluminium alloys and metallic coatings-in modern and contemporary art and architecture has made the need for professionals who can address their conservation more critical than ever. This volume seeks...
Women and Economics – A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution is a book written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and published in 1898. It is considered by many to be her single greatest work, and as with much of Gilman’s...
Po zatčení v roce 2003 média bleskově vymyslela ošetřovateli Charlesi Cullenovi přezdívku „Anděl smrti“. Jenže Cullen nevraždil ze soucitu a nebyl ani žádným jednoduchým monstrem. Byl to oblíbený syn, manžel, milující otec, nejlepší přítel a velice kvalifikovaný...
David Andress argues that we are suffering from an attack of social and cultural dementia. The former great powers of the historic 'West' - especially Britain, the USA and France - seem to be abandoning the wisdom of maturity for senile daydreams of recovered...
Baudelaire je najväčším básnikom, lebo je básnikom výčitiek svedomia. — Paul Claudel Básnická zbierka Charlesa Baudelaira Kvety zla prvýkrát vychádza v slovenskom jazyku vo svojej celistvosti v skvelom preklade Jána Švantnera. V čase svojho vzniku vyvolala...
Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order, free of war,...
Žltá tapeta je fiktívnym denníkom mladej ženy z konca 19.storočia, ktorá je s podozrením na popôrodnú hystériu umiestnená vo veľkom koloniálnom sídle a je jej predpísaná liečba, ktorá spočíva v maximálnej izolácii a zákaze aktivity. Čoskoro začne vnímať, že...
First published serially in Gilman's magazine the Forerunner in 1909-10, the novel tells the story of Diantha Bell, a young woman who leaves her home and her fiancé to start a housecleaning business. A resourceful heroine, Diantha quickly expands her business...
Sequel to Herland.Published serially in the author's monthly magazine, Forerunner, volume 7 (1916).Herland described an all-women utopia in a secluded high valley, where 3 adventurous young men visit by airplane. Eventually, 2 of the 3 are expelled, along with...