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Mary Magdalene in Medieval Culture: Conflicted Roles

Mary Magdalene in Medieval Culture: Conflicted Roles

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Marilyn Migiel, “The Dignity of Man: A Feminist Perspective,” in Refiguring Woman: Perspectives on Gender in the Italian Renaissance, ed. Marilyn Migiel and Juliana Schiesari (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991), 231–32. 5. S. Brufani ...
The Ethical Dimension of the Decameron

The Ethical Dimension of the Decameron

Marilyn Migiel

Marilyn Migiel returns to Giovanni Boccaccio s masterpiece, this time to focus on the dialogue about ethical choices that the Decameron creates with us and that we, as individuals and as groups, create with the Decameron. "
A Rhetoric of the Decameron

A Rhetoric of the Decameron

Marilyn Migiel

I think this book should be required reading not only for Italianists and medievalists as well as for feminists, but also for all historicist scholars who, whatever their political persuasion, believe it is possible to infer misogyny or ...
Abandoned Women: Rewriting the Classics in Dante, Boccaccio, ...

Abandoned Women: Rewriting the Classics in Dante, Boccaccio, ...

Suzanne C. Hagedorn

In its earliest form, a dissertation at Cornell University, it benefited from the insights and criticisms of my commirtee members: Thomas D. Hill, Marilyn Migiel, and last but certainly not least, my chairman, Winthrop Wetherbee. My decision to  ...
Theater of Acculturation: The Roman Ghetto in the Sixteenth ...

Theater of Acculturation: The Roman Ghetto in the Sixteenth ...

Kenneth R. Stow

In Marilyn Migiel and Juliana Schiesari, eds., Refiguring Woman: Perspectives on Gender and the Italian Renaissance. Ithaca, 1991. Cocquelines, C. Bullarum privilegiorum ac diplomatum romanorum pontificium, Roma 1745, Tome Five, part ...
Group Identity in the Renaissance World

Group Identity in the Renaissance World

Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski

My friends Marilyn Migiel and Jeffrey Kahan, and my brotherJim Wojciehowski read and also helped to conceptualize the Freudian Foreword and the Introduction. Karen Pagani helped with translations from the French in these chapters and ...
Refiguring Woman: Perspectives on Gender and the Italian ...

Refiguring Woman: Perspectives on Gender and the Italian ...

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Perspectives on Gender and the Italian Renaissance Marilyn Migiel, Juliana Schiesari. and the Birth of Humanism (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989). Our most pleasurable task is to thank those colleagues who were especially ...
The Feminist Encyclopedia of Italian Literature

The Feminist Encyclopedia of Italian Literature

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Ed. Marilyn Migiel and Juliana Schiesari. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991. 211-32; Spackman, Barbara. "Inter musam et ursam moritur. Folengo and the Gaping 'Other' Mouth." In Refiguring Woman: Perspectives on Gender and the  ...
The Artemisia Files: Artemisia Gentileschi for Feminists and ...

The Artemisia Files: Artemisia Gentileschi for Feminists and ...

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Marilyn Migiel and Juliana Schiesari, 35—70. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Cohen, Elizabeth S. 1991. "No Longer Virgins: Self- Representation by Young Women in Late Renaissance Rome." In Refiguring Women: Perspectives on ...
The Best Devotions of Marilyn Meberg

The Best Devotions of Marilyn Meberg

Marilyn Meberg

Marilyn Meberg loves to laugh. She sees humor in the absurd, the off-center, the quirks of humankind--and especially, in herself. If you, like Marilyn, appreciate the therapeutic value of laughter, this book is for you.
First Impressions

First Impressions

Marilyn Sachs

Marilyn Sachs. Also by Marilyn Sachs Lost in America Copyright © 2006 by Marilyn Sachs A Deborah Brodie Book.
The Center of Attention

The Center of Attention

Marilyn Milley

ABOUT THE AUTHOR MARILYN C. MILLEY Retiring from the field of laboratory medicine, Marilyn took up the craft of writing. Her work reflects her experience in a well-researched environment. She weaves human tragedy, moral issues, social  ...
Medieval Renaissance Baroque: a cat's cradle for Marilyn ...

Medieval Renaissance Baroque: a cat's cradle for Marilyn ...

Marilyn Aronberg Lavin

"Reflects Marilyn Aronberg Lavin's innovative work in art and cultural history in both the print and digital realms.
Joe and Marilyn: Legends in Love

Joe and Marilyn: Legends in Love

C. David Heymann

When Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe eloped in January of 1954, they became an international sensation. Joe and Marilyn reveals the true inside story of these two iconic figures whose marital troubles were Hollywood legend.
Marilyn Monroe Returns: The Healing of a Soul

Marilyn Monroe Returns: The Healing of a Soul

Adrian Finkelstein

Marilyn Monroe Returns tells the remarkable story of Sherrie Lea Laird, a young Canadian singer whose life has an astonishing twist: she seems to be the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe.
Michiganensian

Michiganensian

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Second Row: Marilyn Carnegie: Margaret MeCord; Jeanne Sykes; Ann Jetter; Kathryn Adams; Jane Cameron; Gretta ... Susan Meach; Margaret Hammond; Balig Berberian; Marilyn Shoares; Jeanne Derr; Marilyn Houck; Judith McGinley.
Marilyn Memorabilia: Putting a Price on the Priceless Performer

Marilyn Memorabilia: Putting a Price on the Priceless Performer

Kidder

hen Marilyn Monroe died in 1962, she willed most all of her personal possessions to her friend and famed acting coach, Lee Strassburg, and to his wife, Paula. Marilyn had attended Strassburg's Acting Studio in New York City in the mid-1950s ...
Life in Pictures: Marilyn Monroe

Life in Pictures: Marilyn Monroe

Marie Clayton

Life in Pictures: Marilyn Monroe documents Marilyn's fascinating life in full, with a collection of photographs that cover her early years as a photographer's model, her iconic movies and her personal life up to her untimely death in 1962
My Sex is Ice Cream: The Marilyn Monroe Poems : Including In ...

My Sex is Ice Cream: The Marilyn Monroe Poems : Including In ...

Nellie McClung

My Sex is Ice Cream evokes Marilyn Monroe's glamour, vulnerability, sexuality and intelligence. It is the story, in Marilyn's voice, of her complex marriages and her many relationships with movie moguls, politicians and poets.
Marilyn Manson: 'Talking'

Marilyn Manson: 'Talking'

Chuck Weiner

Chuck Weiner. “Marilyn Manson is about pointing out that showbusiness is just such a fake thing and everyone is so full of shit. Marilyn Manson is a name that is so fake it goes beyond that and it becomes real. In a world that is completely full ...
Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Graham McCann

Analyzes previous biographies of Marilyn Monroe, attempts to portray her complex personality, and discusses her career as an actress
The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

Marilyn Manson

The best-selling autobiography of America’s most controversial celebrity icon, Marilyn Manson (with a bonus chapter not in the hardcover).
The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

Marilyn Manson

The best-selling autobiography of America’s most controversial celebrity icon, Marilyn Manson (with a bonus chapter not in the hardcover).
Marilyn Monroe: A Case for Murder

Marilyn Monroe: A Case for Murder

Jay Margolis

In "Marilyn Monroe: A Case for Murder," biographer Jay Margolis presents the most thorough investigation of Marilyn Monroe's death to date and shares how he reached the definitive conclusion that she was murdered.
Circles

Circles

Marilyn Sachs

Both of them would like to find someone of the opposite sex who views life as seriously as they do—but they keep missing one another. Juvenile/middle grade fiction by Marilyn Sachs; originally published by Puffin
A Pocket Full of Seeds

A Pocket Full of Seeds

Marilyn Sachs

Where could she go? And would she ever see her family again? A New York Times Outstanding Children’s Book of the Year. Juvenile Fiction by Marilyn Sachs; originally published by Doubleday
The Story of Marilyn Manson

The Story of Marilyn Manson

Doug Small

Covers the band's early years as Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids, their debut album Portrait of an American Family, to Antichrist Superstar.
The Fat Girl

The Fat Girl

Marilyn Sachs

With this darkly ironic take on the classic Pygmalion tale, Marilyn Sachs offers young readers a candid portrayal of what happens when the intoxicating thrill of control is confused with love.

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