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(2026)Offering an illuminating exploration of power dynamics and colonial legacies within South Korean education, this timely book examines how the South Korean state governs through curriculum reform, turning public participation ...
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(2026)Offering an illuminating exploration of power dynamics and colonial legacies within South Korean education, this timely book examines how the South Korean state governs through curriculum reform, turning public participation ...
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(2026)In 1959, Ada Prospero Gobetti founded in Turin the monthly magazine Il Giornale dei genitori, which can be considered one of the most interesting journals of the time in the pedagogical area and benefited from the collaboration ...
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(2026)The political activity of women in the early post-fascist years and the dawn of democracy was not exclusively limited to the experiences gained in the large mass parties. A more thorough examination of the political landscape ...
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(2026)How and when does the memory of women’s first vote mark the collective imagination? The study proposed aim to intertwine a rich historiographical background with the success of alternative languages aimed at disseminating ...
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(2026)The following paper retraces the role of the women belonging to the Christian Democracy party in shaping the Italian Republic, from the Resistance to the Constituent Assembly and the first legislatures. From analysing the ...
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(2026)The path to the establishment of the Council of Europe in the immediate post-World War II period and the adoption of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms represent a crucial turning point in the ...
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(2026)The contribution investigates the role played by a particularly significant figure in the history of education in post-war Italy, namely Dina Bertoni Jovine. The aim of the work is not only to highlight the great contribution ...
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(2026)In the transitional period between the Resistance and the birth of the Republic, beyond the studies dedicated to their most notable figures, female socialist activists remain understudied. This underestimation has several ...
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(2026)On 1 February 1945, while the war was still raging in the northern regions, the Bonomi government issued a decree extending voting rights to women. Especially if set in the long term and in the context of feminist and ...
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(2026)The contribution of communist women to the June 2nd election was decisive, not only in terms of voter turnout but also in transforming voting into an opportunity for active participation. The seven representatives of the ...
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(2025)Some texts show us that in Rome both the hereditary capacity and the rights connected to the ius trium liberorurm could also be attributed to a divinity. What is even more surprising, however, is that such attribution was ...
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(2025)This paper explores the symbolic and agentive role of textiles – particularly the peplos dedicated to Athena – from Homer’s Iliad to New Comedy. Focusing on Iliad VI, it examines how the offering of a peplos by Hecuba to ...
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(2025)This essay explores the various attitudes which Greek and Latin authors assumed toward the Jewish food prohibitions, in the Greek and especially Roman context between the 2nd century BCE and the 2nd century CE. Such attitudes ...
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(2025)This introduction frames the volume around the heuristic value of «curiosity» in the study of ancient and modern religions. Practices and objects perceived as strange or marginal are not treated as anecdotes, but as windows ...
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(2025)The contribution deals with two «little gods» of Roman religion, Deverra and Averruncus, whose names are connected to the verb verrere, «to sweep». In addition, it examines the controversial figure of the everriator, the ...
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(2025)This article explores the ritual use of edible effigies made from amaranth dough (tzoalli) among the Mexica. Rather than representing transcendent or polytheistic deities, these figures embodied «metapersons»: immanent, ...
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(2025)The anthroponym «Eshmun is (my) mother» attested in Carthage raises questions about the gender representation of deities. The question arises as to how a male deity could fulfil the role of a mother for an individual bearing ...
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(2025)This article examines a range of objects described in Roman antiquarian sources that functioned as carriers of memory and guarantors of identity. Some, like the pignora imperii, were regarded as divine pledges securing ...
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(2025)The Villa della Riccia in Capodimonte, an elegant suburban residence located on the Miradois hill, has been known since the 19th century as the perfect spot for observing the sky, first becoming the Royal Observatory and ...
