Speaking out and silencing : culture, society and politics in Italy in the 1970s / edited by Anna Cento Bull and Adalgisa Giorgio.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cento Bull, Anna, 1951-

Giorgio, Adalgisa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social engineering--Italy--History--20th century.

Social engineering.

Social conditions.

Manners and customs.

Civilization.

History.

Italy--Civilization--History--20th century.

Italy.

Italy--Social life and customs--20th century.

Italy--Social conditions--20th century.

Italy--Politics and government--20th century.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xii, 244 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Legenda, 2006.

Summary:

Commonly referred to collectively as the years of lead, the 1970s have been seen as a self-contained parenthesis in Italian history, which was dominated by political violence and terrorism. The seventeen essays in this wide-ranging collection adopt different scholarly perspectives to challenge this monolithic view and uncover the complexity of the decade, probing into its many facets while also re-evaluating political conflict. The volume brings to the fore the ruptures of the period through an examination of literature, film, gender relations, party politics and political participation, social structures and identities. This more balanced assessment of the period allows the vibrancy and dynamism of new social and cultural movements to emerge. The long-lasting effects of this period on Italian culture and society and its crucial legacy to the present are lucidly revealed.

Contents:

The 1970s through the looking glass / Anna Cento Bull, Adalgisa Giorgio

Italy in the 1970s between self-expression and organicism / Piero Ignazi

Listening and silencing. Italian feminists in the 1970s : between autocoscienza and terrorism / Paola Di Cori

Women in Italy in the 1970s / Amalia Signorelli

Is the political personal? Fathers and sons in Bertolucci's Tragedia di un uomo ridicolo and Amelio's Colpire al cuore / Lesley Caldwell

A leaden silence? Writers' responses to the anni di piombo / Jennifer Burns

From little girls to bad girls : women's writing and experimentalism in the 1970s and 1990s / Adalgisa Giorgio

The difficulty of a historical perspective on the 1970s / Enrico Palandri

The Radicals : an ambiguous contribution to political innovation / Mark Donovan

Intellectual unemployment and political radicalism in Italy, 1968-1982 / Carl Levy

The Red Brigades and the Moro kidnapping : secrets and lies / Roberto Bartali

Allende, Berlinguer, Pinochet ... and Dario Fo / Tom Behan

'A riconquistare la rossa primavera' : the neo-resistance of the 1970s / Philip Cooke

Collective memory and childhood narratives : rewriting the 1970s in the 1990s / Claudia Bernardi

Becoming visible : did the emancipation of women reach the Sicilian Mafia? / Valeria Pizzini Gambetta

The left and the construction of immigrants in 1970s Italy / Davide Pero

From the centrality of the working class to its demise : the case of Bagnoli, Naples / Anna Cento Bull.

ISBN:

1904350720

OCLC:

66385353

Publisher Number:

9781904350729