Knots, or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance Florence Applied Psychology Shirley Jackson skewered the trials

Shirley Jackson skewered the trials of domestic life in 1950s America with wry wit and uncanny precision

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Knots, or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance Florence Applied Psychology Shirley Jackson skewered the trialsAn interdisciplinary study of hair through the art, philosophy, and science of fifteenth century Florence. In this innovative cultural history, hair is the portal through which Emanuele Lugli accesses the cultural production of Lorenzo il Magnificos Florence. Lugli reflects on the ways writers, doctors, and artists expressed religious prejudices, health beliefs, and gender and class subjugation through alluring works of art, in medical and political