Italian Women at War: Sisters in Arms from the Unification to the Twentieth Century

209 Pages·2016·11.848 MB·English

by  Susan Amatangelo (editor)

Italian Women at War
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Italian Women at War
Sisters in Arms from the Unification to the
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Edited by Susan Amatangelo
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction:Italy’sSistersinArms 1
SusanAmatangelo
I:TheUnificationofItaly
1 OneinaMille:CountessMartinidellaTorre 13
BenedettaGennaro
2 PeppalaCannoniera:CitizenshipinAction 35
GiovannaSummerfield
3 “Sonobriganta,io,nondonnadibrigante”:TheFemale
Brigand’sSearchforIdentity 51
SusanAmatangelo
II:TheTwoWorldWars
4 WomenatWar:EvaKühnAmendola(Magamal):
Interventionist,Futurist,Fascist 75
LuciaRe
5 “WeWillBuildaBetterWorldTogether”:FemalePartisans’
MemoriesofTheirResistancetoFascism(1943–1945) 113
FionaM.Stewart
6 WhereWomenMeetResistance:Fenoglio’sWarNarratives 133
DariaValentini
vii
viii Contents
III:StateTerrorismandtheMafia
7 ASisterwithoutArms:TheMythofAntigoneinLiliana
Cavani’sTheCannibals 151
StefaniaBenini
8 FightingCosaNostrawiththeCamera’sEye:LetiziaBattaglia’s
EvolvingIconsof“TraumaticRealism” 167
NormaBouchard
Index 183
AbouttheEditorandContributors 195