Women in Italy, 1945–1960

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 “What” as Ideal and “Who” as Real: Portraits of Wives and Mothers in Italian Postwar Domestic Manuals, Fiction, and Film

Chapter 3 Marriage, Motherhood, and the Italian Film Stars of the 1950s

Chapter 4 From Bust to Boom: Women and Representations of Prosperity in Italian Cinema of the Late 1940s and 1950s

Chapter 5 Signorina Buonasera: Images of Women in Early Italian Television

Chapter 6 City of Women: Sex and Sports at the 1960 Rome Olympic Games

Chapter 7 Scene femminili: Educational Theater for Women

Chapter 8 The Harem Exposed: Gabriella Parca’s Le italiane si confessano

Chapter 9 Prostitutes and Politicians: The Women’s Rights Movement in the Legge Merlin Debates

Chapter 10 Women’s Writing in the Postwar Period

Chapter 11 “Feminist” Fictions? Representations of Self and (M) Other in the Works of Anna Banti

Chapter 12 Re/Constructing Domestic Space: INA-Casa and Public Housing in Postwar Rome or Women’s Space in a Man-Made World

Chapter 13 “I Don’t Want To Die”: Prostitution and Narrative Disruption in Visconti’s Rocco e i suoi fratelli

Chapter 14 Strong Women and Nontraditional Mothers:The Female Figures in Napoli Milionaria! and Filumena Marturano by Eduardo de Filippo

Chapter 15 What Do Mothers Want? Takes on Motherhood in Bellissima, Il Grido, and Mamma Roma