What’s Queer about Europe? examines how queer theory helps us initiate disorienting conjunctions and counterintuitive encounters for imagining historical and contemporary Europe. This book queers Europe and Europeanizes queer, forcing a reconsideration of both. Its contributors study Europe relationally, asking not so much what Europe is but what we do when we attempt to define it. The topics discussed include: gay marriage in Renaissance Rome, Russian anarchism and gender politics in early-twentieth-century Switzerland, colonialism and sexuality in Italy, queer masculinities in European popular culture, queer national identities in French cinema, and gender theories and activism. What these apparently disparate topics have in common is the urgency of the political, legal, and cultural issues they tackle. Asking what is queer about Europe means probing the blind spots that continue to structure the long and discrepant process of Europeanization.
The present study aimed at better understanding the link between the sensory profile of espresso coffees and their molecular aroma and taste composition. Twelve coffee blends were assessed by instrumental analysis and sensory profiling. The results were statistically correlated using a knowledge-based standardization and normalization of both datasets that selectively extracts differences in the quality of samples, while reducing the impact of variations on the overall intensity of coffees. Several of the 42 aroma and 12 taste compounds analyzed for this study exhibited a good correlation with specific sensory descriptors and may be used as chemical markers. In addition, a robust mathematical model could be developed that predicts the sensory profile of espresso coffees from instrumental data. Such model is a very useful tool for future development of coffee blends with tailored flavor profiles. The results represent significant progress in correlating sensory with instrumental data, exemplified on one of the most complex aromas, i.e., coffee.
This is the first general monograph on ancient Greek dress in English to be published in more than a century. By applying modern dress theory to the ancient evidence, this book reconstructs the social meanings attached to the dressed body in ancient Greece. Whereas many scholars have focused on individual aspects of ancient Greek dress, from the perspectives of literary, visual, and archaeological sources, this volume synthesizes the diverse evidence and offers fresh insights into this essential aspect of ancient society.
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