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Female Cultural Production in Modern Italy: Literature, Art and Intellectual History

Female Cultural Production in Modern Italy: Literature, Art and Intellectual History

Hecker, Sharon
Ramsey-Portolano, Catherine

Hardcover

Series: Italian and Italian American Studies

Art HistoryLiterary CriticismItalian History

ISBN10: 3031148150
ISBN13: 9783031148156
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Apr 15 2023
Pages: 442
Weight: 1.56
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book is the first critical interdisciplinary examination in English of Italian women's contributions to intellectual, artistic, and cultural production in modern Italy. Examining commonalities and diversities from the country's Unification to today, the volume provides insight into the challenges that Italian women engaged in cultural production have faced, and the strategies they have deployed in order to achieve their objectives. The essays address a range of issues, from women's self-identification and public ownership of their professional roles as laborers in the intellectual and cultural realm, to questions about motherhood and financial remuneration, to the role of creative foreign women in Italy. Through critical analysis and direct testimony from new and typically marginalized voices, including an Arab-Italian writer, an Italian-Dominican filmmaker, and a transgender activist, new forms of ongoing struggle emerge that redefine the culturally diverse landscape of femaleintellectual and creative production in Italy today. The volume rethinks a solely national Made in Italy reading of the subject of female intellectual labor, demonstrating instead the wide network of influences and relationships that have existed for Italian women in their professional aspirations.

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