From Margins to Mainstream
Feminism and Fictional Modes in Italian Women's Writing, 1968-1990

Carol Lazzaro-Weis (Author)

9780812214383

Paperback / softback, published 1 January 1993

256 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.368 kg

Carol Lazzaro-Weiss studies the fiction of twenty-five contemporary Italian women writers. Arguing for a notion of gender and genre, she runs counter to many Anglo-American and French feminist theorists who contend that traditional genres cannot readily serve as vehicles for feminist expression.