Female cultural production in modern Italy : literature, art and intellectual history / Sharon Hecker, Catherine Ramsey-Portolano, editors.
This book is the first critical interdisciplinary examination in English of Italian womens contributions to intellectual, artistic, and cultural production in modern Italy. Examining commonalities and diversities from the countrys Unification to today, the volume provides insight into the challenges...
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Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland AG,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- 1 New Perspectives on the Roles of Women in Italys Modern Intellectual History
- Part I Modeling Female Labor
- 2 Fading Away: Women Disappearing from Literature Textbooks
- 3 Futurist Women Artists and the (Pro)Creative Metaphor
- 4 Elena Ferrantes Women Intellectuals: Writing and the Paradoxical Relationship to the Mother
- 5 Learning from the 1970s: Womens Work Inside and Outside the Home
- Part II Performance as Strategy
- 6 From Art History to Life Writing: Anna Bantis Feminist Resonance.-7 The Body and the Asemantic Writing in the Performance of Tomaso Binga.-8 The Hard Work of Being Women in 1960s Italy: Cecilia Mangini and the Documentary.-9 Marcella Campagnano and the Invention of Femininity.-Part III Questions of Female Authority.-10 Jolanda, Angiolo Orvieto and Cosimo Giorgieri-Contri: Asymmetric Mentoring Relationships.-11 Alda Merini: Stigma and the Struggle for Authority as a Woman Writer.-12 Strike a Pose: Italian Women Artists Self-Representation in Photographic Portraits in the 1960s and 1970s.-13 Materializing Difference: Visions of Subjectivity in the Intermedia Works of Ketty La Rocca.-Part IV Collaborations, Networks and Support Systems.-14 Reimagining Art Practice, Recasting Myths: The Story of Two Groups of Feminist Artists in Southern Italy in the Late 1970s.-15 Contradictions and the Re-Invention of Ones Own Role: The Publishing House Scritti di Rivolta Femminile in the Life/Work of Carla Lonzi .-16 Building a Different Memory Together: The Politics of Feminist Archives in Italy.-Part V Foreigners in Italy.-17 Reconstructing Edmonia Lewiss Roman Life: An Exploration of Her Presence in the Eternal City.-18 Ombra Felice? Jessie Boswell and Daphne Maugham in Felice Casoratis Shadow.-19 Russian Women Artists in Italy Between the Two Wars: Careers, Social Policies, and Intercultural Relations Between Revolution and Fascism.-20 Gender Codes in Art and Industry: Beverly Pepper, an American in Postwar Italy.-Part VI Cultural Exchanges.-21 Mario and Edita Broglio: The Dynamics of an Artist Couple in Fascist Italy.-22 Weaving Connections Between Rome and New York: The Role of Gabriella Drudi.-23 Editors Conversation with German Art Historians Oona Lochner and Isabel Mehl: Writing Like a FeministIn Dialogue with Carla Lonzi.-Part VII Questioning Boundaries.-24 Pinks, Purples and Shades of Porpora: The Life of Porpora Marcasciano and the Work of Trans Activism.-25 Editors Conversation with Italian-Dominican Filmmaker Laila Petrone: Visualizing Multicultural Italian Women.-26 Editors Conversation with Algerian-Italian Author and Translator Amal Bouchareb: Arab Womens Cultural Production in ItalyStruggling Against Stereotypical Representations or Fitting into Neo-Orientalist/White Feminist Paradigms?