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Women And Italy

Essays On Gender Culture And History

Editors:

Zygmunt G. Barański (Head of the Department of Italian Studies)⁰,
Shirley W. Vinall (Lecturer)¹

Zygmunt G. Barański
1. University of Reading, UK
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Shirley W. Vinall
1. Department of Italian Studies, University of Reading, UK
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Part of the book series: University of Reading European and International Studies (UREIS)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xi

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Introduction
1. Introduction
  
  Zygmunt G. Barański, Shirley W. Vinall
  
  Pages 1-7
Women in Italian Society
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 9-9
  
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2. The Lombard Silk-spinners in the Nineteenth Century: An Industrial Workforce in a Rural Setting
  
  Anna Cento Bull
  
  Pages 11-42
3. Madri d’Italia: Film and Fascist Concern with Motherhood
  
  Lesley Caldwell
  
  Pages 43-63
4. Dolce Stil Nero? Images of Women in the Graphic Propaganda of the Italian Neo-fascist Party
  
  Luciano Cheles
  
  Pages 64-94
5. Italian Feminism: Some Considerations
  
  Lesley Caldwell
  
  Pages 95-116
6. Language and Sexism
  
  Giulio Lepschy
  
  Pages 117-138
Male Images of Women
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 139-139
  
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2. Shrewd and Wanton Women: Adultery in the Decameron and the Heptameron
  
  Shirley W. Vinall, Peter S. Noble
  
  Pages 141-172
3. Donna Liberata? The Portrayal of Women in the Italian Renaissance Epic
  
  Maggie Günsberg
  
  Pages 173-208
4. Lucia and her Sisters: Women in Alessandro Manzoni’s I promessi sposi
  
  Verina R. Jones
  
  Pages 209-223
5. ‘For Better, for Worse’: Elements of Irony and Reversal in Moravia’s L’amore coniugale
  
  Sharon Wood
  
  Pages 224-235
An Italian Woman Writer: Matilde Serao
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 237-237
  
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2. Matilde Serao: An Introduction
  
  Lucienne Kroha
  
  Pages 239-244
3. Matilde Serao’s Fantasia: An Author in Search of a Character
  
  Lucienne Kroha
  
  Pages 245-262
4. Angel v. Monster: Serao’s Use of the Female Double
  
  Ursula Fanning
  
  Pages 263-292
5. The Woman in the Black Dress and with the Red Coral Brooch
  
  Matilde Serao
  
  Pages 293-297
Back Matter

Pages 299-304

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Editors and Affiliations

University of Reading, UK

Zygmunt G. Barański
Department of Italian Studies, University of Reading, UK

Shirley W. Vinall

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Women And Italy
Book Subtitle: Essays On Gender Culture And History
Editors: Zygmunt G. Barański, Shirley W. Vinall
Series Title: University of Reading European and International Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21260-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1991
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-21260-6Published: 05 April 1991
Series ISSN: 2946-9961
Series E-ISSN: 2946-997X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 304
Topics: Gender Studies, Cultural Studies

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