ITAS 235 - Women in Modern Italy

An interdisciplinary study of the dramatic shifts in women’s roles from the late 19^th to the 21^st C., from a social, political, scientific, economic and artistic perspective. Topics include: migration and colonialism; the complex treatment of women under fascism; representations of women as wives and mothers; women in the workforce; women’s political victories (suffrage and divorce); personal and collective struggles for sexual self-determination; the place of women writers in the Italian literary canon. Readings include Sibilla Aleramo’s famous autobiographical novel, A Woman (1906), and works by Maria Messina, Dacia Maraini, Alba De Céspedes. Lectures, discussions, readings, films and papers in English. Italian majors and minors may select to do readings and papers in Italian.

Credits 1

Notes
Course taught in English. Cross-referenced with WGS 235

Area
Humanities

Connection
23006

Division
Arts and Humanities

Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars