Intended as much for students of Italian as of Film Studies, Studying Italian Cinema provides an accessible introduction to one of the most influential of European film industries. Beginning with an o
This first systematic study of mother-daughter relationships as represented in Western European fiction during the second half of the 20th century provides a comparative study of works from England, F
The psychoanalytic discovery of the importance of the pre-oedipal mother-daughter bond in the 1970s generated a vast amount of feminist theory attempting to identify the specificity of, and give value
Three new essays, and 14 revisions of papers presented at an October 1999 conference in Bath, England look at general issues and features of Italy during the 1970s, such as feminists, writers' respons
Motherhood remains a complex and contested issue in feminist research as well as public discussion. This interdisciplinary volume explores cultural representations of motherhood in various contemporar
