Women in Italy, 1945-1960: An Interdisciplinary Study (Italian & Italian American Studies)

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-20
“What” as Ideal and “Who” as Real: Portraits of Wives and Mothers in Italian Postwar Domestic Manuals, Fiction, and Film....Pages 21-34
Marriage, Motherhood, and the Italian Film Stars of the 1950s....Pages 35-49
From Bust to Boom: Women and Representations of Prosperity in Italian Cinema of the Late 1940s and 1950s....Pages 51-63
Signorina Buonasera: Images of Women in Early Italian Television....Pages 65-76
City of Women: Sex and Sports at the 1960 Rome Olympic Games....Pages 77-91
Scene femminili: Educational Theater for Women....Pages 93-107
The Harem Exposed: Gabriella Parca’s Le italiane si confessano....Pages 109-130
Prostitutes and Politicians: The Women’s Rights Movement in the Legge Merlin Debates....Pages 131-145
Women’s Writing in the Postwar Period....Pages 147-158
“Feminist” Fictions? Representations of Self and (M) Other in the Works of Anna Banti....Pages 159-176
Re/Constructing Domestic Space: INA-Casa and Public Housing in Postwar Rome or Women’s Space in a Man-Made World....Pages 177-191
“I Don’t Want To Die”: Prostitution and Narrative Disruption in Visconti’s Rocco e i suoi fratelli....Pages 193-210
Strong Women and Nontraditional Mothers:The Female Figures in Napoli Milionaria! and Filumena Marturano by Eduardo de Filippo....Pages 211-223
What Do Mothers Want? Takes on Motherhood in Bellissima, Il Grido, and Mamma Roma....Pages 225-237
Back Matter....Pages 239-246