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Mildred Pierce e i margini della crisi

2013

Protagonista del romanzo di James M. Cain (1941) e della trasposizione cinematografica di Michael Curtiz con Joan Crawford nel 1945, e poi televisiva Todd Haynes con Kate Winslet nel 2011, Mildred Pierce è stata oggetto di indagini all’interno di diversi approcci degli studi culturali, all’incrocio tra film studies, gender studies e women studies, che hanno sottolineato la reiterata importanza del modello di donna veicolato dal personaggio, che mina la stabilità istituzionale, politica e culturale dell’ordine patriarcale. Quando la crisi sembra aprire una crepa nel sistema fallogocentrico occidentale, creando uno spazio all’azione femminile, la violenta repressione cui Mildred viene ad ogni…

Presencias femeninas antes y durante la Revolucion mexicana

2012

Agency or impotence: Sicilian women in the context of captivity.

In this position paper I will put forward a small array of case studies in order to better understand the role of sicilian women in captivity related situations during the XVII-XVIIIXIX centuries, specifically how much gender influenced the practices of mediation, ransom and redemption of slaves. Those case studies constitutes part of my research work, and my aim is to test the conclusions of this paper by further archival research. I will highlight the role of sicilian women not only as captives but also in the mediation for the rescue of their relatives and in the funding of the redeeming missions. Of course, women in those centuries were generally subjugated to the will of their fathers,…

Gender and Women in Ancient Near Eastern Studies: Bibliography 2002-2016

2017

In this paper we present a bibliographical list of works published between 2002 and 2015 which have focused on women and gender in ancient Near Eastern studies. In addition to the list, we also provide an introduction in which we consider the relationship between women’s studies and gender studies and present a selection of the trends and theoretical positions which have emerged since the late 1980s either inside the framework of gender studies, or in closely related fields such as queer studies, postcolonial studies and feminist epistemologies – the predominant trends in the time span covered by this overview. We hope that this work will provide ancient Near Eastern scholars with a useful …