Female Cultural Production in Modern Italy

Chapter 1 New Perspectives on the Roles of Women in Italy’s Modern Intellectual History

Chapter 2 Fading Away: Women Disappearing from Literature Textbooks (How Italy Obliterates Female Intellectual Work)

Chapter 3 Futurist Women Artists and the (Pro)Creative Metaphor

Chapter 4 Elena Ferrante’s Women Intellectuals: Writing and the Paradoxical Relationship to the Mother

Chapter 5 Learning from the 1970s: Women’s Work Inside and Outside the Home

Chapter 6 From Art History to Life Writing: Anna Banti’s Feminist Resonance

Chapter 7 The Body and the Asemantic Writing in the Performance of Tomaso Binga

Chapter 8 The Hard Work of Being Women in 1960s Italy: Cecilia Mangini and the Documentary Essere donne

Chapter 9 Marcella Campagnano and the Invention of Femininity

Chapter 10 Jolanda, Angiolo Orvieto and Cosimo Giorgieri-Contri: Asymmetric Mentoring Relationships

Chapter 11 Alda Merini: Stigma and the Struggle for Authority as a Woman Writer

Chapter 12 Strike a Pose: Italian Women Artists’ Self-Representation in Photographic Portraits in the 1960s and 1970s

Chapter 13 Materializing Difference: Visions of Subjectivity in the Intermedia Works of Ketty La Rocca

Chapter 14 Reimagining Art Practice, Recasting Myths: The Story of Two Groups of Feminist Artists in Southern Italy in the Late 1970s

Chapter 15 Contradictions and the Re-Invention of One’s Own Role: The Publishing House Scritti di Rivolta Femminile in the Life/Work of Carla Lonzi

Chapter 16 Building a Different Memory Together: The Politics of Feminist Archives in Italy

Chapter 17 Reconstructing Edmonia Lewis’s Roman Life: An Exploration of Her Presence in the Eternal City

Chapter 18 Ombra Felice ? Jessie Boswell and Daphne Maugham in Felice Casorati’s Shadow

Chapter 19 Russian Women Artists in Italy Between the Two Wars: Careers, Social Policies, and Intercultural Relations Between Revolution and Fascism

Chapter 20 Gender Codes in Art and Industry: Beverly Pepper, an American in Postwar Italy

Chapter 21 Mario and Edita Broglio: The Dynamics of an Artist Couple in Fascist Italy

Chapter 22 Weaving Connections Between Rome and New York: The Role of Gabriella Drudi

Chapter 23 Editors’ Conversation with German Art Historians Oona Lochner and Isabel Mehl: Writing Like a Feminist—In Dialogue with Carla Lonzi

Chapter 24 Pinks, Purples and Shades of Porpora: The Life of Porpora Marcasciano and the Work of Trans Activism

Chapter 25 Editors’ Conversation with Italian-Dominican Filmmaker Laila Petrone: Visualizing Multicultural Italian Women

Chapter 26 Editors’ Conversation with Algerian-Italian Author and Translator Amal Bouchareb: Arab Women’s Cultural Production in Italy—Struggling Against Stereotypical Representations or Fitting into Neo-Orientalist/ White Feminist White Feminist Paradigms?