Women's Work in Post-war Italy

An Oral and Filmic History

Flora Derounian

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English

Intellect Books
01 April 2024

Film theory & criticism; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Oral history; Gender studies: women

Series: Trajectories of Italian Cinema and Media

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.

By: Flora Derounian
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781789388121
ISBN 10: 1789388120
Series: Trajectories of Italian Cinema and Media
Pages: 234
Publication Date: 01 April 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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