TY  - BOOK
AU  - Standen,Alex
TI  - Gendering Commitment: Re-thinking Social and Ethical Engagement in Modern Italian Culture 
SN  - 9781443884303
AV  - HN475.5 
U1  - 306/.0945 23
PY  - 0000///�20
KW  - Commitment (Psychology)
KW  - Sex differences
KW  - Italy
KW  - Engagement (Philosophy)
KW  - C 1900
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Gender studies, gender groups
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - fast
KW  - 1994-
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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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