Italy's Other Women

Italy's Other Women
Author: Danielle Hipkins
Publisher: Italian Modernities
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Motion pictures
ISBN: 9783034319348

In the period 1940-1965 the female prostitute featured in at least 10 per cent of Italian-made films. This book explains why she was so prevalent in Italian cinema of this period and offers a new account of her on-screen presence. The author shows that prostitutes in Italian cinema are much more than simply 'tarts with hearts' or martyr figures.

Italian Women and Other Tragedies

Italian Women and Other Tragedies
Author: Gianna Patriarca
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Total Pages: 86
Release: 1994
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781550710014

This book is the first part of Gianna Patriarca's trilogy on Italian women. Winner of the Milton Acorn award, the collection remains popular today almost 20 years after it was first published.

How Fascism Ruled Women

How Fascism Ruled Women
Author: Victoria de Grazia
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520074572

"For the common reader as well as the professional one, Victoria de Grazia opens doors and sheds new light on a fascinating subject."—Mary Gordon, author of The Other Side

Il Duce's Other Woman

Il Duce's Other Woman
Author: Philip V. Cannistraro
Publisher: William Morrow
Total Pages: 728
Release: 1993
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

The never-before-told story of Benito Mussolini's Jewish mistress and how she helped him come to power. The beginning of the turbulent love affair in 1911 of Margherita Sarfetti and Mussolini marked her emergence as an important writer and cultural advisor for the Fascist party, and her passion and determination wrought great changes for Italy. 24 photos.

The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories

The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2019-03-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0141985623

'Rich. . . eclectic. . . a feast' Telegraph This landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, from the birth of the modern nation to the end of the twentieth century. Poets, journalists, visual artists, musicians, editors, critics, teachers, scientists, politicians, translators: the writers that inhabit these pages represent a dynamic cross section of Italian society, their powerful voices resonating through regional landscapes, private passions and dramatic political events. This wide-ranging selection curated by Jhumpa Lahiri includes well known authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante and Luigi Pirandello alongside many captivating new discoveries. More than a third of the stories featured in this volume have been translated into English for the first time, several of them by Lahiri herself.

Forgotten Healers

Forgotten Healers
Author: Sharon T. Strocchia
Publisher: I Tatti Studies in Italian Ren
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674241746

In Renaissance Italy women from all walks of life played a central role in health care and the early development of medical science. Observing that the frontlines of care are often found in the household and other spaces thought of as female, Sharon Strocchia encourages us to rethink women's place in the history of medicine.

Same Bodies, Different Women

Same Bodies, Different Women
Author: Christopher Mielke
Publisher: Trivent Publishing
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2019-12-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 6158122238

This volume is a collection of essays focusing on marginalized women mostly in Central and Eastern Europe from around 1350 to 1650. "Other" women are discussed in three different categories: women whose religious practices put them on the social margins, "common women" who are in society but not of society because they are in the sex trade, and women whose occupations were reason enough to shunt them. In order to fill a gap in gender history for countries east of the Rhine River, the studies included present how official city-funded brothels in medieval Austria worked, how a princess' disability affected her life as Byzantine empress, how one unmarried Transylvanian woman who got pregnant dealt with being the center of a court case, and how enslaved women in medieval Hungary were treated as sexual property. The hope with this volume is that it will show the many interdisciplinary ways that women on the margins can be studied in this region, and to diminish the taboo of discussing this topic to begin with.