ISBN:
9783034309967
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (287 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Italian modernities vol. 16
Parallel Title:
Print version Women and Gender in Post-Unification Italy : Between Private and Public Spheres
DDC:
305.48851
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
In nineteenth-century Italy, a woman's place was considered to be in the domestic sphere, devoted to family life. But during the Risorgimento and the years following Unification, economic, political and social changes enabled women progressively to engage in pursuits that had previously been the exclusive domain of men
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Katharine Mitchell and Helena Sanson Introduction; Part 1 Motherhood in the New Italy; Ursula Fanning Maternal Prescriptions and Descriptions in Post-Unification Italy; Helena Sanson 'La madre educatrice' in the Family and in Society in Post-Unification Italy; Part 2 Living and Writing at the Margins; Lucy Hosker The Spinster in the Works of Neera and Matilde Serao: Other or Mother?; Anna Laura Lepschy Carolina Invernizio and Maria Messina: The Drama of Italian Emigration
Description / Table of Contents:
Marjan Schwegman Horrific Heroines: Female Brigandage, Honour and Violence in Post-Unification ItalyPart 3 Writing and Performing in the Spotlight; Sharon Wood Murder in the Harem: Cristina di Belgiojoso; Julie Dashwood The Actress-Manager in Nineteenth-Century Italy: Adelaide Ristori; Monica Dall'Asta Women Film Pioneers in Early Twentieth-Century Italy; Part 4 New Approaches to the Study of Women and Gender in Post-Unification Italy; Katharine Mitchell 'Sorelle in arte (e politica)': The 'Woman Question' and Female Solidarity
Description / Table of Contents:
Ann Hallamore Caesar Writing by Women in Post-Unification Literary CultureBibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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