
Gendered Contexts : New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies.
Title:
Gendered Contexts : New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies.
Author:
Benedetti, Laura.
ISBN:
9781453910788
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (234 pages)
Series:
Studies in Italian Culture ; v.10
Studies in Italian Culture
Contents:
Table of Contents -- Introduction 1 -- The Narrow Door: Luisa Muraro 7 -- Woman as Subject: Theory and Micropolitical Practice in Italian Feminist Texts: Itala T. C. Rutter 19 -- Aspects of Nudity in the Decameron: Tommasina Gabriele 31 -- The Widow in Giovanni Boccaccio's Works: A Negative Exemplum or a Symbol of Positive Praxis?: Eugenio L. Giusti 39 -- The Traffic in Muses: Painting and Poetry in Ferrara around 1450: Stephen J. Campbell 49 -- Post-Petrarchism and Language(s) of Desire: Robert J. Rodini 69 -- Choosing Battles? Women's War Poetry in Renaissance Italy: Olivia E. Sears 79 -- A Gendered Cosmos: Galileo, Mother Earth, and the "Sink of Uncleanliness": Dolora A. Wojciehowski 93 -- Transgressive Transvestism in Three Scala Scenarios: Rosalind Kerr 109 -- Utopia and the Body: Gender and Androgyny in Casanova's Icosameron: Cynthia C. Craig 121 -- Fosca: The Myth of the Ugly Woman: Patrizia Bettella 133 -- Leading the Pedagogue by Hand: Women and Education in Italo Svevo's Narrative: Giuliana Minghelli 143 -- "Gli ho sparato negli occhi": Gender Conflict and Homicide in Alba de Céspedes's Dalla parte di lei and Natalia Ginzburg's È stato così: Sandra Carletti 153 -- Fathers and Daughters in the Camp: The Night Porter by Liliana Cavani: Chiara Bassi 165 -- Making the Lesbian Body: Writing and Desire in Dacia Maraini's Lettere a Marina: Beverly Ballaro 177 -- Italian Fathers and Eritrean Daughters: Women without Nationality: Graziella Parati 189 -- In Search of the Mother's Lost Voice: Davida Gavioli 201 -- Index 213 -- List of Contributors 219 -- BM 1 223.
Abstract:
The application of feminist thought to the study of Italian culture is generating some of the most innovative work in the field today. This volume presents a range of essays which focus on the construction of gender in Italian literature as well as essays in feminist theory. The contributions reflect the current diversity of critical approaches available to those interrogating gender and offer interpretations of prose, poetry, theater, and the visual arts from Boccaccio, Michelangelo, and Galileo to contemporary Italian writers such as Carla Cerati and Dacia Maraini.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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