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Women read­ers and writ­ers in medieval Iberia: Spin­ning the text
This book is devot­ed to medieval Iber­ian women, read­ers and writ­ers. Focus­ing on the sto­ries and texts women heard, visu­al­ly expe­ri­enced or read, and the sto­ries that they rewrote, the work explores women’s expe­ri­ences and cul­tur­al prac­tices and their efforts to make sense of their place with­in their famil­ial net­works and com­mu­ni­ties. The study is based on two method­olog­i­cal and inter­pre­tive threads: a new par­a­digm to rep­re­sent pre­mod­ern read­ing and, a study of women’s writ­ing, or, more pre­cise­ly, women’s tex­tu­al­i­ties, as a process of cre­at­ing words but also acts, social prac­tices, emo­tions and, ulti­mate­ly, affec­tus, under­stood here as the embod­i­ment of the abil­i­ty to affect and be affect­ed.
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La mam­ma: inter­ro­gat­ing a nation­al stereo­type
The idea of the “mam­ma ital­iana” is one of the most wide­spread and rec­og­niz­able stereo­types in per­cep­tions of Ital­ian nation­al char­ac­ter both with­in and beyond Italy. This fig­ure makes fre­quent appear­ances in jokes and oth­er forms of pop­u­lar cul­ture, but it has also been seen as shap­ing the lived expe­ri­ence of mod­ern-day Ital­ians of both sex­es, as well as influ­enc­ing per­cep­tions of Italy in the wider world. This inter­dis­ci­pli­nary col­lec­tion exam­ines the invent­ed tra­di­tion of mam­mis­mo but also con­tex­tu­al­izes it by dis­cussing oth­er, often con­trast­ing, ways in which the role of moth­ers, and the moth­er-son rela­tion­ship, have been under­stood and rep­re­sent­ed in cul­ture and soci­ety over the last cen­tu­ry and a half, both in Italy and in its dias­po­ra.
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