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Women's Work in Post-war Italy
An Oral and Filmic History
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This insightful and cross-disciplinary study will appeal to readers interested in womenβs history, labour studies, Italian history, and postwar social change.
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This book investigates women's work inΒ Italy between 1945 and 1965 using films, original oral history interviews, and archivalΒ sources.Β It focuses on three sectors: agriculture (rice weeders), fashion (seamstresses), and religious work (nuns) and compares womenβs own words with their representation in film.Β 20 b/w illus.
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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 labour following World War II and Italy's new republic. War and national reconstruction have typically been framed as masculine undertakings in Italy. However, Flora Derounian shifts that frame to investigate the labour that Italian women were undertaking during this critical time of political, social, and ideological change, as well as how it was viewed by society and by the 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.
Series: Trajectories of Italian Cinema and Media
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Women's Work in Post-war Italy
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ISBN: 9781789388121
Publisher: Intellect
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 04 December 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Intellect Books
Illustration: 20 Halftones, black and white
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 170.0mm
Height: 244.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 234
About the Author
Flora Derounian is lecturer in French at the University of Sussex.
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