Women's Work in Post-war Italy

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An Oral and Filmic History

By Flora Derounian

Series: Trajectories of Italian Cinema and Media

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Women's Work in Post-War Italy offers a vivid and engaging exploration of women’s labour in Italy after World War II and during the nation’s reconstruction. Flora Derounian draws on original oral history interviews to reveal the experiences of Italian women workers, contrasting their personal accounts with contemporary film portrayals. The book highlights the social, political, and ideological shifts that shaped women’s work and challenges the traditional masculine narrative of postwar recovery.
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This insightful and cross-disciplinary study will appeal to readers interested in women’s history, labour studies, Italian history, and postwar social change.

This book investigates women's work in Italy between 1945 and 1965 using films, original oral history interviews, and archival sources. It focuses on three sectors: agriculture (rice weeders), fashion (seamstresses), and religious work (nuns) and compares women’s own words with their representation in film. 20 b/w illus.

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A vivid, engaging, and cross-disciplinary account of women's work in postwar Italy.

Women's Work in Post-War Italy explores women's labour following World War II and Italy's new republic. War and national reconstruction have typically been framed as masculine undertakings in Italy. However, Flora Derounian shifts that frame to investigate the labour that Italian women were undertaking during this critical time of political, social, and ideological change, as well as how it was viewed by society and by the women workers themselves.

Drawing on original oral history interviews, Derounian compares women's own words with the very different ways they were pictured in film, giving voice to the under-represented, and exposing the profound difference that work made to women's lives.

Series: Trajectories of Italian Cinema and Media

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781789388121

Publisher: Intellect

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 04 December 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Intellect Books

Illustration: 20 Halftones, black and white

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 234

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Flora Derounian History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction Series: Trajectories of Italian Cinema and Media

About the Author

Flora Derounian is lecturer in French at the University of Sussex.

Women's Work in Post-war Italy