Giulia Calvi
Professor of Gender History of Europe in the World
(from ca. 1500 to the present)
Tel. [+39] 055 4685 573 / 362
Fax [+39] 055 4685 203
Email Giulia.Calvi@eui.eu
Secretary Kathy Wolf Fabiani
Postal address: Department of History and Civilization | Via Boccaccio 121 | 50133 Florence | Italy
Villa Schifanoia, Office VS79 - For appointments please contact Kathy Wolf Fabiani
Fields of Research
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Cultural History
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Social History
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Gender History
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History of Medicine
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Early Modern Italian
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European History
Languages
Italian, English, French, Spanish
Current Research Projects
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PRA.G.E.S. - PRActising Gender Equality in Science
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Comparative Study of Women of the European Courts
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Costumes and Customs in the Early Modern World
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Patrilineage, Family and Gender in Comparative Perspective
PRA.G.E.S. - PRActising Gender Equality in Science
The project "PRActising Gender Equality in Science" - PRA.G.E.S. consists of an action of coordination, lasting 21 months, aimed at comparing the various strategies implemented for promoting the presence of women in decision-making positions relating to scientific research in public institutions.
Synthesis document on the good practices database
Selected Recent Publications
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La famiglia in Europa, Alessandro BARBERO (ed.), Storia d'Europa e del mediterraneo; Sezione 5: L'età moderna (secoli XVI - XVIII), Roma, Salerno editrice, 2009, 627-676.
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Le donne medici nel sistema europeo delle corti (XVI-XVIII sec.), G. Calvi, R. Spinelli, (eds.), Firenze, Polistampa 2008, vols 1-2
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Rights and Ties that Bind: Mothers, Children, and the State in Tuscany during the Early Modern Period, in D. W. Sabean, S. Teuscher and J. Mathieu (eds), Kinship in Europe. Approaches to Long-Term Development (1300-1900), New York/Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2007, p. 145-162
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Kinship and Domestic Service in Early Modern Tuscany. Some case studies, in L’Homme”, Europaische Zeitschrift fur Feministische Geschichtswissenchaft, 18, 1, 2007, pp. 33-45
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Gender and the Body, in A. Molho, D. Ramada Curto (eds), Finding Europe. Discourses on Margins, Communities, Images, New York, Berghahn, 2007, p. 89-114 Innesti: donne e genere nella storia sociale, G. Calvi (ed.), Roma, Viella, 2004