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Gendering Commitment : Re-thinking Social and Ethical Engagement in Modern Italian Culture / edited by Alex Standen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextCopyright date: �20Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781443884303
  • 1443884308
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gendering Commitment.DDC classification:
  • 306/.0945 23
LOC classification:
  • HN475.5
Online resources:
Contents:
Discussing women's social role through paradoxical behaviours: starvation and self-empowerment in Neera's Teresa (1886) and L'indomani (1889) / Francesca Calamita -- Gendering the air: an alternative perspective on futurist aeropainting / Jennifer Griffiths -- "Appartenevo ad un uomo, dunque?" reading rape and sexual violence in early 20th-century Italian women's narrative / Alex Standen -- Sandro Penna, queer intellettuale impegnato / John Champagne -- "Senza cacciarsi dentro un destino da etichetta": the body politics of Dacia Maraini / Maria Morelli -- Re-mapping Impegno in postcolonial Italy: gender, race, class, and the question of commitment / Barbara De Vivo.
Summary: Notions of engagement, commitment and impegno continue to provoke debate amongst academics researching contemporary Italian culture, and yet - be it by accident or by more conscious selection - critical work has tended to posit these concepts as a predominantly male and, often, heteronormative domain. This collection of essays challenges this assumption, and analyses more closely the fluid and fragmented nature of commitment, and the work of Italian intellectuals and cultural practitioners associated with it. The volume's contributors engage with those who have typically been excluded from such.
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Discussing women's social role through paradoxical behaviours: starvation and self-empowerment in Neera's Teresa (1886) and L'indomani (1889) / Francesca Calamita -- Gendering the air: an alternative perspective on futurist aeropainting / Jennifer Griffiths -- "Appartenevo ad un uomo, dunque?" reading rape and sexual violence in early 20th-century Italian women's narrative / Alex Standen -- Sandro Penna, queer intellettuale impegnato / John Champagne -- "Senza cacciarsi dentro un destino da etichetta": the body politics of Dacia Maraini / Maria Morelli -- Re-mapping Impegno in postcolonial Italy: gender, race, class, and the question of commitment / Barbara De Vivo.

Notions of engagement, commitment and impegno continue to provoke debate amongst academics researching contemporary Italian culture, and yet - be it by accident or by more conscious selection - critical work has tended to posit these concepts as a predominantly male and, often, heteronormative domain. This collection of essays challenges this assumption, and analyses more closely the fluid and fragmented nature of commitment, and the work of Italian intellectuals and cultural practitioners associated with it. The volume's contributors engage with those who have typically been excluded from such.

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