Italian women at war : sisters in arms from the Unification to the twentieth century /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Other Authors:	Amatangelo, Susan, 1967- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Madison : Lanham, Maryland : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016]
Series:	Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in Italian studies.
Subjects:	Women and war > Italy > History. Women in war > Italy > History. Women soldiers > Italy > History. Women political activists > Italy > History. Protest movements > Italy > History. Mafia > Italy > History. Italy > History, Military. Italy > Social conditions. Italy > History > 19th century. Italy > History > 20th century. 1800 - 1999 Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: Italy's sisters in arms / Susan Amatangelo
Part I. The unification of Italy
One in a mille : Countess Martini Della Torre / Benedetta Gennaro
Peppa La Cannoniera : citizenship in action / Giovanna Summerfield
"Sono briganta, io, non donna di brigante" : the female brigand's search for identity / Susan Amatangelo
Part II. The two world wars
Women at war : Eva Kühn Amendola (Magamal) : interventionist, futurist, fascist / Lucia Re
"We will build a better world together" : female partisans' memories of their resistance to fascism (1943-1945) / Fiona M. Stewart
Where women meet resistance : Fenoglio's war narratives / Daria Valentini
Part III. State terrorism and the Mafia
A sister without arms : the myth of Antigone in Liliana Cavani's The cannibals / Stefania Benini
Fighting Cosa Nostra with the camera's eye : Letizia Battaglia's evolving icons of "traumatic realism" / Norma Bouchard.