Tigress in the Snow : : Motherhood and Literature in Twentieth-Century Italy / / Laura Benedetti.

The Tigress in the Snow explores how literature reacted to, influenced, and shaped the evolving notion of motherhood in twentieth-century Italy. From the late-nineteenth century rhetorical celebration of the mother as Madonna, to the Fascist regime's demographic campaign and feminist revisi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2009
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Mothers at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
  • Chapter 2. Resilience and Resistance: The Fascist Years
  • Chapter 3. Questioning Motherhood
  • Chapter 4. Struggling with the Mother
  • Chapter 5. Mothers without Children
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index