Gendering Commitment

Re-thinking Social and Ethical Engagement in Modern Italian Culture

Buch | Hardcover

145 Seiten

2015 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4438-7640-7 (ISBN)

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Notions of engagement, commitment and impegno continue to provoke debate amongst academics researching contemporary Italian culture, and yet – be it by accident or by more conscious selection – critical work has tended to posit these concepts as a predominantly male and, often, heteronormative domain. This collection of essays challenges this assumption, and analyses more closely the fluid and fragmented nature of commitment, and the work of Italian intellectuals and cultural practitioners associated with it.The volume’s contributors engage with those who have typically been excluded from such debates: not only female writers and artists, but also males whose work has been denied the designation of impegnato. The chapters all focus on individuals who insist on the need to question, interrogate and denounce social realities.Employing a range of theoretical perspectives, and bringing into dialogue individuals not typically associated with terms such as engagement and commitment, this volume offers an original and distinctive contribution to a discussion that persists in Italian studies.

Alex Standen completed her PhD at the University of Birmingham in 2011, with a thesis on representations of gender violence in the narratives of Dacia Maraini. She received her undergraduate degree from Birmingham, before completing the joint Warwick-Birmingham MA in Italian Studies: Culture and Communication. She worked for two years as Teaching Fellow in Italian Studies at Birmingham and for a year at the University of Auckland, before beginning her current role in student support and engagement at University College London. Her research interests relate to twentieth-century Italian literature, and gender and sexuality in Italian culture and society.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.7.2015
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4438-7640-2 / 1443876402
ISBN-13	978-1-4438-7640-7 / 9781443876407
Zustand	Neuware