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9780854967100

Visions and Revisions

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  • ISBN13:

    9780854967100

  • ISBN10:

    0854967109

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1993-09-01
  • Publisher: Berg Pub Ltd
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Summary

This book analyzes the ways in which women were viewed by men through a variety of literary and other discourses, from the Divine Comedy to the 20th century. A further dimension is provided by tracing the evolution of the cultural and social identity of women as perceived by women themselves.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Matelda: Poetic Image or Archetype?p. 3
Francesca Revisitedp. 13
Men Framing Women: Sabadino degli Arienti's Gynevera de le clare donne Reexaminedp. 27
Female Protagonists in Late Sixteenth-Century Italian Comedy: More Errant Than Erringp. 41
The Women Characters of Carlo Emilio Gaddap. 53
The Failure of the Female Experiment in Pavese's La luna e i falop. 71
The Double Gaze: Visibility of Sexual Difference in Photographic Representations (1908-1918)p. 89
The Role of Women in the Lullabies of Emilia-Romagna and Tuscanyp. 119
Cosmology of Liberation: Black and Other Popular Madonnas at Easterp. 139
Three Generations of Women: Transformation of Female Identity Models in Italyp. 149
The Women's Movement in Italy and the Events of 1968p. 167
Fra Madre e Marito: The Mother/Daughter Relationship in Dacia Maraini's Lettere a Marinap. 183
Violence Against Women and the Response of Italian Institutionsp. 199
Bibliographyp. 213
Contributorsp. 232
Indexp. 234
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