Women in Italy, 1945-1960 an interdisciplinary study / edited by Penelope Morris.

Other author Morris, Penelope.
Format Electronic
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Palgrave Macmillan,
Descriptionix, 246 p. ; 22 cm.
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SeriesItalian and Italian American studies
Italian and Italian American studies (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) ^A585406
Contents "What" as ideal and "who" as real : portraits of wives and mothers in Italian postwar domestic manuals, fiction, and film / Rebecca West -- Marriage, motherhood, and Italian film stars of the 1950s / Réka Buckley -- From bust to boom : women as representations of prosperity in Italian cinema of the late 1940s and 1950s / Mary P. Wood -- Signorina Buonasera : images of women in early Italian television / Stephen Gundle -- City of women : sex and sports at the 1960 Rome Olympic games / Nadia Zonis -- Scene femminili : educational theater for women / Daniela Cavallaro -- The harem exposed : Gabriella Parca's Le italiane si confessano / Penelope Morris -- Prostitutes and politicians : the women's rights movement in the Legge Merlin debates / Molly Tambor -- Women's writing in the postwar period / Sharon Wood -- "Feminist" fictions? Representations of self and (M)other in the works of Anna Banti / Ursula Fanning -- Re/constructing domestic space : INA-Casa and public housing in postwar Rome or women's space in a man-made world / Ellen Nerenberg -- "I don't want to die": prostitution and narrative disruption in Visconti's Rocco e i suoi fratelli / Danielle Hipkins -- Strong women and nontraditional mothers : the female figures in Napoli milionaria! and Filumena Marturano by Eduardo de Filippo / Donatella Fischer -- What do mothers want? Takes on motherhood in Bellissima, Il Grido, and Mamma Roma / Lesley Caldwell
General noteBased on papers delivered at a conference in Glasgow, Sept. 2002.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2006040893
ISBN9781403970992 (alk. paper)
ISBN1403970998 (alk. paper)

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