Women and Italy: Essays on Gender, Culture and History

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
The Lombard Silk-spinners in the Nineteenth Century: An Industrial Workforce in a Rural Setting....Pages 11-42
Madri d’Italia: Film and Fascist Concern with Motherhood....Pages 43-63
Dolce Stil Nero? Images of Women in the Graphic Propaganda of the Italian Neo-fascist Party....Pages 64-94
Italian Feminism: Some Considerations....Pages 95-116
Language and Sexism....Pages 117-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Shrewd and Wanton Women: Adultery in the Decameron and the Heptameron....Pages 141-172
Donna Liberata? The Portrayal of Women in the Italian Renaissance Epic....Pages 173-208
Lucia and her Sisters: Women in Alessandro Manzoni’s I promessi sposi....Pages 209-223
‘For Better, for Worse’: Elements of Irony and Reversal in Moravia’s L’amore coniugale....Pages 224-235
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Matilde Serao: An Introduction....Pages 239-244
Matilde Serao’s Fantasia: An Author in Search of a Character....Pages 245-262
Angel v. Monster: Serao’s Use of the Female Double....Pages 263-292
The Woman in the Black Dress and with the Red Coral Brooch....Pages 293-297
Back Matter....Pages 299-304