• Women, terrorism and trauma in Italian culture
  • Record Type: Electronic resources : monographic
    Author: GlynnRuth.,
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Palgrave Connect (Online service)
    Place of Publication: New York, N.Y.
    Published: Palgrave Macmillan;
    Year of Publication: c2013
    Description: 1 online resource.
    Series: Italian and Italian American studies
    Subject: Terrorism in mass media. -
    Subject: Women terrorists - Italy. -
    Subject: Terrorism - Social aspects - Italy. -
    Online resource: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137341990An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
    Notes: Description based on print version record.
    Summary: 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. The intermittent clustering of cultural representations that feminize terrorism is interrogated in close relation to the psychological, social and political purposes served by such feminization at distinct historical moments. Ruth Glynn analyzes a broad range of texts including press reports, memoir, literary fiction and film, dating from the 1970s to the present with attention paid to the recent re-emergence of domestic terrorism and to cultural representations of the women of the 'New Red Brigades'.
    ISBN: 9781137341990electronic bk.
    ISBN: 1137341998electronic bk.
    Content Note: Approaching women, terror and trauma in cultural perspective Press representations of Italian women terrorists Feminizing terror: pentitismo and the cinema of containment Writing the terrorist self Re-feminizing the female terrorist Romancing the female terrorist Between myth and maternity: the women of the "New Red Brigades".
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