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Italian women at war : sisters in arms from the Unification to the twentieth century /

"Italian Women at War explores Italian women's participation in war and conflict throughout Italy's modern history, beginning with the Unification and ending with the twentieth century. The essays in this volume, which focus on both historical and fictional figures, help to further th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Amatangelo, Susan, 1967- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison : Lanham, Maryland : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016]
Colección:Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in Italian studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Italy's sisters in arms / Susan Amatangelo
  • Part I. The unification of Italy
  • One in a mille : Countess Martini Della Torre / Benedetta Gennaro
  • Peppa La Cannoniera : citizenship in action / Giovanna Summerfield
  • "Sono briganta, io, non donna di brigante" : the female brigand's search for identity / Susan Amatangelo
  • Part II. The two world wars
  • Women at war : Eva Kühn Amendola (Magamal) : interventionist, futurist, fascist / Lucia Re
  • "We will build a better world together" : female partisans' memories of their resistance to fascism (1943-1945) / Fiona M. Stewart
  • Where women meet resistance : Fenoglio's war narratives / Daria Valentini
  • Part III. State terrorism and the Mafia
  • A sister without arms : the myth of Antigone in Liliana Cavani's The cannibals / Stefania Benini
  • Fighting Cosa Nostra with the camera's eye : Letizia Battaglia's evolving icons of "traumatic realism" / Norma Bouchard.