Italy’s Other Women: Gender and Prostitution in Italian Cinema, 1940–1965

Cover
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. Making Italians, Undoing Women: Getting Over the War
	Introduction to Part I
	1. Ghosts of Prostitutes Past: Cinema and the Prostitute during World War II
	2.
Worry About the Girl: Whitewashing Italy 
After the War
	3. The New Nation’s ‘Others’: Women with Money, Race and the South
Part II. New Readings of Doubled Women in 1950s Cinema
	Introduction to Part II
	4. Multiplication Anxiety: Contests and 
Falling Women
	5. ‘The Brothel Series’: Activating Female Gazes
	6. Marriage and Misrecognition: The Prostitute in Comedy of the 1950s
Part III. From Sultans to Kept Men: Beyond the Merlin Law
	Introduction to Part III
	7. The Fantasy Harem: The Battle of the Sexes in Italian Film Comedy of the Early to Mid-1960s
	8. Clients and Lovers: Guilt, Shame and Pleasure
	9. From Protectors to Kept Men: Masculinity 
and Melancholia
	Afterword
	Appendix: List of Italian Films Featuring Prostitutes, 1945–1965
	Filmography
	Bibliography
	Index