This volume brings together specialists from a variety of disciplines to develop a deeper understanding of the social, political, and cultural history of women

Over the course of the 20th century, the rapid transformation of Italy from an impoverished, predominantly agricultural nation to one of the strongest economies

This book explores an important moment in Italian women’s theatre and cultural history: plays written for all-women casts between 1946 and the mid-1960s, auth

This book highlights the centrality of the autobiographical enterprise to Italian women’s writing through the twentieth century—a century that has frequentl

One of the founding fathers of neorealism in the postwar period in Italy, Antonio Pietrangeli went on to focus his lens upon the female subject. Eight of his te