WOMEN IN ITALY, 1945-1960
An Interdisciplinary Study
Edited by Penelope Morris
Italian & Italian American Studies
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Pub date: Oct 2006
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Description
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 changed considerably, the fifteen years following the Second World War have tended to be overlooked or subsumed into discussions of other periods. By focusing on the experience of women and by broadening the frame of reference to include subjects and sources often ignored, or only alluded to, by traditional analyses, the essays in this volume break new ground and provide a corrective to previous interpretive models.
Author Bio
Penelope Morris
is Lecturer in Italian, University of Glasgow. Her publications include
Giovanna Zangrandi: una vita in romanzo
(2000) and articles on the writing and cultural history of women in twentieth century Italy.
Praise for Women in Italy, 1945-1960
"The gap between prescriptions and behaviour, ideals and realities, expectations and outcomes provides the space for fascinating studies of a period of transition from a war-torn Italy to a country on the brink of unprecedented prosperity. Genuinely interdisciplinary in its scope, this collection includes neglected areas, such as the 1960 Rome Olympics or the advice columns of popular magazines, as well as revisiting more familiar texts. A valuable resource for students as well as scholars.”—Robert Lumley, Professor, Department of Italian, University College London
Table of contents
Introduction: Women in Italy 1945-1960
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Penelope Morris * Descriptions of and Prescriptions for ‘Ideal’ Domesticity in Italian Postwar Manuals for Housewives, Contrasted to Fictional and Filmic Representations of ‘Real’ Domestic Experience--Rebecca West
*
What Do Mothers Want? An Examination of Three Films--Lesley Caldwell
*
Re/Constructing Domestic Space: INA-Casa and Public Housing in Postwar Rome or Women’s Space in a Man-Made World--Ellen Nerenberg
*
Scene Femminili
: A Pre-feminist All-Women Theatre--Daniela Cavallaro
* "
Feminist" Fictions? Representations of Self and (M)Other in the works of Anna Banti--Ursula Fanning
*
The Aesthetic of the Other: Women’s Writing and the Canon, 1945-60--Sharon Wood
*
Strong Women and Non-Traditional Mothers: The Female Figures in
Filumena Marturano
and
Napoli Milionaria
by Eduardo de Filippo--Donatella Fischer
*
Prostitutes and Politicians: The Women’s Rights Movement in the Legge Merlin Debates--Molly Tambor
*
"Non voglio morire": Prostitution and Narrative Disruption in Visconti’s
Rocco e i suoi fratelli
--Danielle Hipkins
*
Signorina Buonasera: Images of Women in 1950s Television--Stephen Gundle
*
City of Women: Sex and Sports at the 1960 Rome Olympic Games--Nadia Zonis
*
From Bust to Boom: Women and Representations of Prosperity in Italian Cinema of the Late '40s and '50s--Mary Wood
*
The Harem Exposed: Gabriella Parca’s
Le italiane si confessano--
Penelope Morris
*
Marriage, Motherhood, and the Italian Stars of the 1950s--Réka Buckley
