Performing bodies : female illness in Italian literature and cinema (1860-1920) / Catherine Ramsey-Portolano.

This book examines how in Italian literature and film, as well as in society, women were confined to traditional roles and illness often represented the consequence for transgressing those roles. Feigning illness offered women a way to "own" the illness and become masters of their bodies a...

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Main Author: Ramsey-Portolano, Catherine (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Vancouver ; Madison : Lanham : The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2018]
Series:Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in Italian studies.
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Performing bodies : female illness in Italian literature and cinema (1860-1920) / by Ramsey-Portolano, Catherine

Published 2018
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