Women in Italy, 1946-1960 an interdisciplinary study

This volume brings together specialists from a variety of disciplines to develop a deeper understanding of the social, political, and cultural history of women in Italy in the years 1946-1960. Despite being a time when women and the family were at the center of national debates, and when society cha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Morris, Penelope (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan 2006.
Edición:1st ed. 2006.
Colección:Italian and Italian American Studies,
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  • Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 ""What"" as Ideal and ""Who"" as Real: Portraits of Wives and Mothers in Italian Postwar Domestic Manuals, Fiction, and Film; 3 Marriage, Motherhood, and the Italian Film Stars of the 1950's; 4 From Bust to Boom: Women and Representations of Prosperity in Italian Cinema of the Late 194';s and 1950's; 5 Signorina Buonasera: Images of Women in Early Italian Television; 6 City of Women: Sex and Sports at the 1960 Rome Olympic Games; 7 Scene femminili: Educational Theater for Women
  • 8 The Harem Exposed: Gabriella Parca's Le italiane si confessano 9 Prostitutes and Politicians: The Women's Rights Movement in the Legge Merlin Debates; 10 Women's Writing in the Postwar Period; 11 ""Feminist"" Fictions? Representations of Self and (M) Other in the Works of Anna Banti; 12 Re/Constructing Domestic Space: INA-Casa and Public Housing in Postwar Rome or Women's Space in a Man-Made World; 13 ""I Don't Want To Die"": Prostitution and Narrative Disruption in Visconti's Rocco e i suoi fratelli
  • 14 Strong Women and Nontraditional Mothers: The Female Figures in Napoli Milionaria! and Filumena Marturano by Eduardo de Filippo 15 What Do Mothers Want? Takes on Motherhood in Bellissima, Il Grido, and Mamma Roma; Index