Volume in which historians working in an international research group explore visual representations of death. The use of images of death is historicised by exploring artistic representations of death and their relation to changing social attitudes in the Middle Ages, nineteenth and twentieth century. Contents: Faces of death: welcome to the desert of the real La douleur est psysique / Klaartje Schrijvers : Death and the picture: representation of war criminals and construction of a divided memory about World War II in Hungary / Andrea Petö : Photographical representation of death in historiography: examples from the German occupation of Norway : 'Death shall have no dominion': Dutch flood disasters in the press / José de Kruif : Photography as a source: the changing representation of the image of mafia women by the Italian press / Alice De Toni : The faces of Kartini and Anne Frank: the death of the author in Dutch history / Berteke Waaldijk.
Faces of death: an artistic representation The dramatisation of death in the second half of the 19th century: the Paris morgue and anatomy painting / Mireia Ferrer Álvarez : Images of the dead in the Middle Ages: the capitals of the Palazzo Ducale in Venice / Claudia Bertazzo : Facing death on the sea: ex-voto paintings of Northern Adriatic sailing ships in the 19th centruy / Tea Mayhew. With short abstracts in English and the language of the author.
How can it be that women in Switzerland were able to study law or medicine one hundred years before they were alowed to vote? This collection of essays and short biographies, written by over thirty Swiss experts on women´s history, sheds new light on the exceptionally long fight for women´s suffrage and other aspects of legal equality, in a country with complex political and judicial structures. The book is written for the anniversary of the organisation that started in 1909 as the Schweizerischer Verband fùr Frauenstimmrecht and changed its name in the Schweizerischer Verband fùr Frauenrechte in 1971, the year that Swiss women gained the active and passive right to vote. Short (4-7 page) biographies of: Helene von Mülinen, Pauline Chaponnière-Chaix, Auguste de Morsier, Emma Graf, Julie Merz-Schmid, Lucy Dutoit, Augusta Gillabert-Randin, Gertrud Woker, Emilie Gourd, Annie Leuch-Reineck, Georgine Gerhard, Elisabeth Vischer-Alioth, Dora Grob-Schmidt, Antoinette Quinche, Lotti Ruckstuhl-Thalmessinger, Emma Kammacher, Elisabeth Pletscher, Marie Boehlen, Mary Paravicini-Vogel, Gertrude Girard-Montet, Irmgard Rimondini-Schnitter, Iris und Peter von Roten-Meyer, Alma Bacciarini.