Women's Work in Post-war Italy: An Oral and Filmic History
Author:   Flora Derounian
Publisher:   Intellect
Edition:   New edition
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9781789388121


Pages:   234
Publication Date:   04 December 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Women's Work in Post-war Italy: An Oral and Filmic History


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A vivid, engaging, and cross-disciplinary account of women’s work in postwar Italy. Women’s Work in Post-War Italy explores women’s labor following World War II and Italy’s new republic. War and national reconstruction have typically been framed as masculine undertakings in Italy, but Flora Derounian shifts that frame to investigate the labor that Italian women were doing at this critical time of political, social, and ideological change, as well as how it was viewed by society and by women workers themselves. Drawing on original oral history interviews, Derounian compares women’s own words with the very different ways they were pictured in film, giving voice to the under-represented, and exposing the profound difference that work made to women’s lives.

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Author:   Flora Derounian
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9781789388121


ISBN 10:   1789388120
Pages:   234
Publication Date:   04 December 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Notes on the Text Introduction SECTION 1: AGRICULTURE – RICE WEEDERS 1. A Brief History of Rice Weeders in Italy 2. Earth and Rebirth: Filmic Representations of Rice Weeders 3. Martyrs Without Medals: Oral Histories of Rice Weeders SECTION 2: TEXTILES – SEAMSTRESSES 4. A Brief History of Seamstresses in Post-war Italy  5. Modern Women: Filmic Representations of Seamstresses 6. Cinderella Stories: Oral Histories of Seamstresses  SECTION 3: RELIGIOUS WORK – NUNS  7. A Brief History of Nuns in Post-war Italy  8. Fallen Women: Filmic Representations of Nuns  9. Professed Professionals: Oral Histories of Nuns  Afterword Bibliography Filmography  Index of Interviews

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Flora Derounian is Lecturer in French at the University of Sussex. Her research studies women's work in Europe from 1945 to the present.

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