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Performing Bodies: Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860-1920)

Performing Bodies: Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860-1920)

Hardcover

Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Italian Studies

Literary CriticismFilm Studies

ISBN10: 1683931319
ISBN13: 9781683931317
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: Dec 29 2017
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
This book examines how in Italian literature and film, as well as in society, women were confined to traditional roles and illness often represented the consequence for transgressing those roles. Feigning illness offered women a way to own the illness and become masters of their bodies as well as their stories and destinies.

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