Women, Terrorism, and Trauma in Italian Culture (Italian and Italian American Studies)

Glynn, Ruth

Palgrave Macmillan（2013/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781137294067
• DDC分類 363.3250820945

Full Description

Addressing cultural representations of women's participation in the political violence and terrorism of the Italian anni di piombo ('years of lead', c. 1969-83), this book conceptualizes Italy's experience of political violence during those years as a form of cultural and collective trauma.

Contents

Introduction: The anni di piombo , Women and Trauma 1. Approaching Women, Terror and Trauma in Cultural Perspective: Theoretical Principles 2. Press Representations of Italian Women Terrorists 3. Feminizing Terror: Pentitismo and the Cinema of Containment 4. Writing the Terrorist Self 5. Re-feminizing the Female Terrorist 6. Romancing the Female Terrorist 7. Between Myth and Maternity: The Women of the 'New Red Brigades'