Women, Terrorism, and Trauma in Italian Culture

Women, Terrorism, and Trauma in Italian Culture

by R. Glynn
Women, Terrorism, and Trauma in Italian Culture

Women, Terrorism, and Trauma in Italian Culture

by R. Glynn

Paperback(1st ed. 2013)

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Overview

Addressing cultural representations of women's participation in the political violence and terrorism of the Italian anni di piombo ('years of lead', c. 1969-83), this book conceptualizes Italy's experience of political violence during those years as a form of cultural and collective trauma.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349451432
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date: 02/21/2013
Series: Italian and Italian American Studies
Edition description: 1st ed. 2013
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ruth Glynn is Senior Lecturer in the Italian department at the University of Bristol, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The anni di piombo , Women and Trauma 1. Approaching Women, Terror and Trauma in Cultural Perspective: Theoretical Principles 2. Press Representations of Italian Women Terrorists 3. Feminizing Terror: Pentitismo and the Cinema of Containment 4. Writing the Terrorist Self 5. Re-feminizing the Female Terrorist 6. Romancing the Female Terrorist 7. Between Myth and Maternity: The Women of the 'New Red Brigades'
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