Women and Italy : essays on gender, culture, and history / edited by Zygmunt G. Barański and Shirley W. Vinall.
| Other author | Barański, Zygmunt G. |
| Other author | Vinall, Shirley W., 1946- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : St. Martin's Press, 1991. |
| Description | xi, 304 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Lombard silk-spinners in the nineteenth century : an industrial workforce in a rural setting / Anna Cento Bull -- Madri d'Italia : film and fascist concern with motherhood / Lesley Caldwell -- Dolce stil nero? : images of women in the graphic propaganda of the Italian neo-fascist party / Luciano Cheles -- Italian feminism : some considerations / Lesley Caldwell -- Language and sexism / Giulio Lepschy -- Shrewd and wanton women : adultery in the Decameron and the Heptameron / Shirley W. Vinall and Peter S. Noble -- Donna liberata? : the portrayal of women in the Italian Renaissance epic / Maggie Günsberg -- Lucia and her sisters : women in Alessandro Manzoni's I promessi sposi / Verina R. Jones. |
| Contents | 'For better, for worse' : elements of irony and reversal in Moravia's L'amore coniugale / Sharon Wood -- Matilde Serao : an introduction ; Matilde Serao's Fantasia : an author in search of a character / Lucienne Kroha -- Angel v. monster : Serao's use of the female double / Ursula Fanning -- The women in the black dress and with the red coral brooch / Matilde Serao. |
| General note | Spine title: Women & Italy. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Other title | Women & Italy. |
| LCCN | 90047393 |
| ISBN | 0312056117 |