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Book SynopsisThis volume, looks at how feminism and femininity are embedded in a broad spectrum of Italian cultural practices.
Table of ContentsPart 1 Registers of history - white and black madonnas: historical origins of femininity and feminism, Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum; unseduced mothers - configurations of a different female subject transgressing fascistized feminity, Robin Pickering-Iazzi; the transparent woman - reading femininity within a futurist context, Graziella Parati. Part 2 Reading cultural texts: filial discourses - feminism and femininity in Italian women's autobiography, Maria Marotti; caring and nurturing in Italian women's theory and fiction - a reappraisal, Giovanna Miceli Jeffries; "cherchez la femme" - the case of feminism and the "giallo" in Italy, Carol Lazzarao-Weis. Part 3 Fashion, cinema, and other orders: feminism in high culture, femininity in popular culture - Italy in the nineties?, Maurizio Viano; the novel, the body, and Giorgio Armani - rethinking national "identity" in a post-national world, Beverly Allen; fashion as a text - talking about femininity and feminism, Eugenia Paulicelli; filming female autobiography - Maraini, Ferreri, and Piera's own story, Aine O'Healy. Part 4 Toward a transcultural dialogue: I don't know what you mean by "Italian feminist thought" - Is anything like that possible?, Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio; between the United States and Italy - critical reflections on Diotima's feminist/feminine ethics, Renate Holub.
