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Asimmetrie di genere e di razza in The Grass is Singing di Doris Lessing
2011
Published in the early 1950s, The Grass is Singing (1950), the first work by Doris Lessing (who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007), through the deconstruction of certain normative characters traditionally attributed to Englishness, anticipates in its narrative plot some of those founding issues that, in the decades to come, would be explored both by the theoretical-critical writings of Second Wave Feminism and within that complex study field which became known over the Seventies, such as (post-) colonial studies. In the novel, the body of the white colonial woman living in the colonies is depicted as the site of opposite tensions and the traditional homogeneity of the group…
Women’s art in Ireland and Poland 1970-2010: experiencing and experimenting on the body.
2012
International audience
Meanderings around the image of the hole. The Transition in the Scripts of the Body of
2018
El presente artículo se propone indagar acerca de la escritura del cuerpo femenino en la obra de la escritora Marta Sanz, a propósito de la relectura de la Transición española que contienen buena parte de sus novelas. Para ello, partiremos del análisis de la metáfora del agujero en varios de los textos de la autora. Este trabajo busca llamar la atención sobre la crítica a la evolución de las formas de violencia y de control ejercidas sobre el cuerpo femenino que contiene la obra de Marta Sanz, a partir de los textos Los mejores tiempos (2001), La lección de anatomía (2008), Daniela Astor y la caja negra (2013) y Éramos mujeres jóvenes. Una educación sentimental de la Transición española (20…
The phenomenology of proximity violence: relational strategies and modalities used against vulnerable migrants
2019
The chapter describes an umbrella concept, proximity violence, of which violence against women is only one manifestation. Of this phenomenon , the author endeavoured to highlight the patterns that make defining its material contours and specifying the tesserae that compose it difficult. In fact cultural factors, contingent situations became entangled with concrete elements of pain and abuse of the victims. It was, therefore, a matter of betting, on the possibility of representing a phenomenon by devising a bridge between theories of gender-based violence and the “thing” – the violence of those who are not strangers and in whom, for different reasons, we trust. Filling this vacuum employing …