Representations Of Female Identity In Italy

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Representations Of Female Identity In Italy

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Author : Silvia Giovanardi Byer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2017-05-11

Representations Of Female Identity In Italy written by Silvia Giovanardi Byer and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-11 with Social Science categories.

This volume explores a variety of iconic female characters in Italian literature, art and film who depict distinct representatives of female identity within this national culture. The contributors here apply various methodologies to characterize the evolution of women’s identity and their representation in such expressive modalities, drawing from literature, film, drama, history, the humanities, media and cultural studies. Cross-genre, cross-cultural, and cross-national explorations are also utilised here in order to underline the multifaceted ways in which de facto female characterization occurred.

Women In Italian Renaissance Art

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Author : Paola Tinagli
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1997-06-15

Women In Italian Renaissance Art written by Paola Tinagli and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-06-15 with Art categories.

This is the first book which gives a general overview of women as subject-matter in Italian Renaissance painting. It presents a view of the interaction between artist and patron, and also of the function of these paintings in Italian society of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Using letters, poems, and treatises, it examines through the eyes of the contemporary viewer the way women were represented in paintings.

Writing And Performing Female Identity In Italian Culture

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Author : Virginia Picchietti
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-01-28

Writing And Performing Female Identity In Italian Culture written by Virginia Picchietti and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-28 with Literary Criticism categories.

This volume investigates the ways in which Italian women writers, filmmakers, and performers have represented female identity across genres from the immediate post-World War II period to the turn of the twenty-first century. Considering genres such as prose, poetry, drama, and film, these essays examine the vision of female agency and self-actualization arising from women artists’ critique of female identity. This dual approach reveals unique interpretations of womanhood in Italy spanning more than fifty years, while also providing a deep investigation of the manipulation of canvases historically centered on the male subject. With its unique coupling of generic and thematic concerns, the volume contributes to the ever expanding female artistic legacy, and to our understanding of postwar Italian women’s evolving relationship to the narration of history, gender roles, and these artists’ use and revision of generic convention to communicate their vision.

Race Nation And Gender In Modern Italy

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Author : Gaia Giuliani
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-05-29

Race Nation And Gender In Modern Italy written by Gaia Giuliani and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-29 with Social Science categories.

This book explores intersectional constructions of race and whiteness in modern and contemporary Italy. It contributes to transnational and interdisciplinary reflections on these issues through an analysis of political debates and social practices, focusing in particular on visual materials from the unification of Italy (1861) to the present day. Giuliani draws attention to rearticulations of the transnationally constructed Italian ‘colonial archive’ in Italian racialised identity-politics and cultural racisms across processes of nation building, emigration, colonial expansion, and the construction of the first post-fascist Italian society. The author considers the ‘figures of race’ peopling the Italian colonial archive as composing past and present ideas and representations of (white) Italianness and racialised/gendered Otherness. Students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including Italian studies, political philosophy, sociology, history, visual and cultural studies, race and whiteness studies and gender studies, will find this book of interest.

Visions And Revisions

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Author : Mirna Cicioni
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993-11-14

Visions And Revisions written by Mirna Cicioni and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-11-14 with Literary Criticism categories.

This book, a collection of essays in English dealing with women in Italian culture, consists of two sections reflecting a variety of themes and intellectual and political interests. The first section, "Women and the Male Gaze: The Literary and Artistic Heritage", analyses ways in which women were constructed by men through a variety of literary and other discourses, from the Divine Comedy to the twentieth century. The second section, "Tradition and Transformation: Women in Society and the Movement towards Liberation", focuses on definitions by women themselves on their cultural and social identity, and the gradual and at times contradictory evolution of these definitions - changes in women's attitudes towards marriage and the family, proposed reforms to the laws on domestic and sexual violence, and lullabies in Northern and Central Italy as an expression of women's frustration and anger at their position.

Italian Women And Autobiography

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Author : Fabiana Cecchini
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2011-01-18

Italian Women And Autobiography written by Fabiana Cecchini and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

The essays included in this collection examine issues such as identity and ideology which are at play in the female autobiography practice, along with the problematicity that these trigger in terms of self-representation and traditional formal boundaries. The women writers analyzed here through mainly historical, literary, feminist and psychoanalytic lenses cover a long period in the history of Italy, spanning from the Fascist era to our time. In an attempt to organize and connect these texts which are chronologically far apart, we have divided our contributions into two main parts. The first, “Shapes of Ideology,” includes authors interacting primarily with political ideology in a way that eventually entails the challenge of the official “technologies of gender” (De Lauretis, 1987) and implicitly, a reflection on the gendered identity. In the second part, “Reconsidering ideology, negotiating autobiography,” while the political ideology is not completely excluded, it becomes however something more internalized and relevant to the writers’ quest for identity. Such process bears consequences with respect to the canon of autobiography, as authors experiment with new forms of autobiographical narratives and readers become more and more an integral component of this personal endeavor.

Refiguring Woman

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Author : Marilyn Migiel
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1991

Refiguring Woman written by Marilyn Migiel and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.

Refiguring Woman reassesses the significance of gender in what has been considered the bastion of gender-neutral humanist thought, the Italian Renaissance. It brings together eleven new essays that investigate key topics concerning the hermeneutics and political economy of gender and the relationship between gender and the Renaissance canon. Taken together, they call into question a host of assumptions about the period, revealing the implicit and explicit misogyny underlying many Renaissance social and discursive practices.

Forging Shoah Memories

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Author : S. Lucamente
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-06-25

Forging Shoah Memories written by S. Lucamente and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-25 with History categories.

Despite an outpouring in recent years of history and cultural criticism related to the Holocaust, Italian women's literary representations and testimonies have not received their proper due. This project fills this gap by analyzing Italian women's writing from a variety of genres, all set against a complex historical backdrop.

Gender And Culture Wars In Italy

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Author : Emiliana De Blasio
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Gender And Culture Wars In Italy written by Emiliana De Blasio and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.

Spatialities In Italian American Women S Literature

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Author : Eva Pelayo Sañudo
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-07-06

Spatialities In Italian American Women S Literature written by Eva Pelayo Sañudo and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-06 with Social Science categories.

Examining the family saga as an instrument of literary analysis of writing by Italian American women, this book argues that the genre represents a key strategy for Italian American female writers as a form which distinctly allows them to establish cultural, gender and literary traditions. Spaces are inherently marked by the ideology of the societies that create and practice them, and this volume engages with spaces of cultural and gendered identity, particularly those of the ‘mean streets’ in Italian American fiction, which provide a method of critically analyzing the configurations and representations of identity associated with the Italian American community. Key authors examined include Julia Savarese, Marion Benasutti, Tina De Rosa, Helen Barolini, Melania Mazzucco and Laurie Fabiano. This book is suitable for students and scholars in Literature, Italian Studies, Cultural Studies and Gender Studies.