Women in Italy, 1945–1960: An Interdisciplinary Study

1. Introduction
Penelope Morris

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

3. Marriage, Motherhood, and the Italian Film Stars of the 1950s
Réka Buckley

4. From Bust to Boom: Women and Representations of Prosperity in Italian Cinema of the Late 1940s and 1950s
Mary P. Wood

5. Signorina Buonasera: Images of Women in Early Italian Television
Stephen Gundle

6. City of Women: Sex and Sports at the 1960 Rome Olympic Games
Nadia Zonis

7. Scene femminili: Educational Theater for Women
Daniela Cavallaro

8. The Harem Exposed: Gabriella Parca’s Le italiane si confessano
Penelope Morris

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

10. Women’s Writing in the Postwar Period
Sharon Wood

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

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

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

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

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

Avainsanat: Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social History, Cultural History, Gender Studies, History of Italy, European History