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Reading List

All chapters/articles marked as ** are available via library extracts.

Core Texts

Dacia Maraini, Donna in guerra (1975)

Oriana Fallaci, Lettera a un bambino mai nato (1977)

Francesca Duranti, La casa sul lago della luna (1984) please use Troubador 2001 edition

Elena Ferrante, L'amore molesto (1992)

Core Theoretical Readings

**Cavarero, Adriana, 'Towards a Theory of Sexual Difference', in The Lonely Mirror: Italian Perspectives on Feminist Theory, ed. by S. Kemp et. al (London: Routledge, 1993), pp. 189-221.

**Lonzi, Carla, 'Let's Spit on Hegel [Sputiamo su Hegel]', in Italian Feminist Thought: A Reader, ed. by P. Bono & S. Kemp (Oxford: OUP, 1991), pp. 40-59.

**Irigaray, Luce, 'The Bodily Encounter with the Mother', in Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader, ed. by D. Lodge et. al. (Harlow & New York: Pearson/Longman, 2008), pp. 531-540.

** Moi, T., 'Feminist, Female, Feminine', in The Feminist Reader: Essays in Gender and The Politics of Literary Criticism, ed. by C. Belsey (London: Macmillan, 1989), pp. 117-132.

Lois Tyson, Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide (New York: Routledge, 2006), see chapter on Feminist Criticism, available as electronic resource through library catalogue.

General Introductions to Feminist Thought

Chris Beasley, What is Feminism? An Introduction to Feminist Theory (London: Sage, 1999).

Sarah Gamble, ed. The Routledge Companion to Feminism and Postfeminism (London: Routledge, 2004).

Sandra Kemp & Judith Squires, eds. Feminisms (Oxford: OUP, 1997)

Rosemarie Putnam Tong, Feminist Thought (Westview Press, 1998).

Imelda Whelehan, Modern Feminist Thought: From the Second Wave to ‘Post-Feminism’ (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1995)

Secondary bibliography on Italian Women's Writing and Italian Feminist Theory

Amoia, Alba, Twentieth Century Italian Women Writers: The Feminine Experience (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996).

Birnbaum, Lucia Chiavola, Liberazione della donna: Feminism in Italy (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1986).

Bono, Paola and Sandra Kemp, eds., Italian Feminist Thought: A Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991).

Cavarero, Adriana, Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood, trans. by Paul A. Kottman (London: Routledge, 2000)

Adalgisa Giorgio, ed., Writing mothers and daughters : renegotiating the mother in Western European narratives by women (Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2002).

Lazzaro-Weiss, Carol, From Margins to Mainstream: Feminism and Fictional Modes in Italian Women’s Writing, 1968-1990 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993).

Parati, Graziella and Rebecca West, eds, Italian Feminist Theory and Practice: equality and sexual difference (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003).

Panizza, Letizia, and Sharon Wood, eds, A History of Women’s Writing in Italy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).

Wilson, Rita, Speculative Identities: Contemporary Italian Women’s Narrative (Leeds: Northern Universities Press, 2000).

Wood, Sharon, Italian Women’s Writing 1860-1994 (London: Athlone Press, 1995).

Dacia Maraini, Donna in guerra

Amoia, Alba, 20th Century Italian Women Writers: The Feminine Experience (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996), see Chapter 8.

Diaconescu-Blumenfeld, Rodica and Ada Testaferri, eds., The Pleasure of Writing: Critical Essays on Dacia Maraini(West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2000).

Lazzaro-Weiss, Carol, ‘Gender and Genre in Italian Feminist Literature in the Seventies’, Italica, Vol. 65, no. 4 (1988) 293-307.

**Lazzaro-Weiss, Carol, From Margins to Mainstream: Feminism and Fictional Modes in Italian Women’s Writing 1968-90(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993), see pp. 73-83

Picchietti, Virginia, Relational Spaces: Daughterhood, Motherhood and Sisterhood in Dacia Maraini’s Writings and Films(London: Associated University Presses, 2002).

Tamburri, Anthony J., ‘Dacia Maraini’s Donna in Guerra: Victory or Defeat’, in Contemporary Women Writers in Italy: A Modern Renaissance, Santo L. Aricò ed. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1990), pp. 139-152.

Wood, Sharon, Italian Women’s Writing 1860-1994 (London: Athlone, 1995), see Chapter 12.

Oriana Fallaci, Lettera a un bambino mai nato

Amoia, Alba, 20th Century Italian Women Writers: The Feminine Experience (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996), see pp. 112-135, esp , 112-120.

Aricò, Santo L., Oriana Fallaci, The Woman and The Myth (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010), esp. Chapter 9

**Benedetti , Laura, The Tigress in the Snow: Motherhood and Literature in Twentieth-Century Italy (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), see pp. 89-93

**Gatt-Rutter, John, Oriana Fallaci: The Rhetoric of Freedom (Oxford: Berg, 1996), see Chapter 5.

**Marrone, Claire, Female Journeys: Autobiographical Expressions by French and Italian Women (Greenwood, 2000), Chapter 6, pp. 107-120.

Picchietti, Virginia, Relational Spaces: Daughterhood, Motherhood and Sisterhood in Dacia Maraini’s Writings and Films(London: Associated University Presses, 2002), p. 83.

**Salsini, Laura A., Addressing the letter : Italian women writers' epistolary fiction (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010).

Elena Ferrante, L'amore molesto

**Adalgisa Giorgio, The Passion for the Mother: Conflicts and Idealisations in Contemporary Italian Narrative’, inWriting Mothers and Daughters, ed. Adalgisa Giorgio (Oxford: Berghahn, 2002), pp. 119-154.

**Benedetti , Laura, The Tigress in the Snow: Motherhood and Literature in Twentieth-Century Italy (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), see pp. pp. 104-7

Sambuco, Patrizia, Corporeal bonds : the daughter-mother relationship in twentieth century Italian women's writing(Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2012).

Please note that the following texts refer to the film L'amore molesto:

Marlow-Mann, Alex, ‘The Tears of Naples’ Daughters: Re-interpreting the sceneggiata in Mario Martone’s L’amore molesto’, The Italianist, 29 (2009), 199-213

Laura Rascaroli, ‘A Present and a True City? Naples in Mario Martone’s Cinema’, in From Moscow to Madrid: Postmodern Cities, European Cinema, ed. by Ewa Mazierska and Laura Rascaroli (London: I. B. Tauris, 2003), pp. 51-72 (available as e-book via library catalogue)

O’Healy, Áine, ‘Revisiting the Belly of Naples: The Body and the City in the Films of Mario Martone’, Screen, 40.3 (1999), 239-56

Russo Bullaro, Grace and Stephanie Love, eds., The Works of Elena Ferrante: Reconfiguring the Margins (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)

Small, Pauline, ‘Mario Martone’s L’amore molesto: Desperately Seeking Delia’, The Italianist, 19 (1999), 298-317

Francesca Duranti, La casa sul lago della luna

See bibliography on p. xxxi of the Troubador edition, in particular Vinall, Lazzaro Weiss, Sharon Wood.

See also:

**Hipkins, Danielle , Contemporary Italian Women Writers and Traces of the Fantastic: the creation of literary space(London: Legenda, 2007), pp. 123-68.

**Spunta, Maria, Voicing the Word: Writing Orality in Contemporary Italian Fiction (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2004), pp. 120-22 (on language).

**Wilson, Rita, Speculative Identities: Contemporary Italian Women's Narrative (Leeds: Northern Universities Press, 2000), pp. 125-40.

**Vinall, S.W., 'Francesca Duranti: Reflections and Inventions', in The New Italian Novel, ed. by Z. Baranski & L. Pertile (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), pp. 99-120.