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Article: Janet Levarie Smarr and Daria Valentini, eds. Italian Women and the City.(Book Review)
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- Italica
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- March 22, 2004
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Janet Levarie Smart and Daria Valentini, eds. Italian Women and the City. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 2003.
In the past ten to fifteen years literary critics, sociologists, political scientists and historians have produced studies that restore the historical conditions and determinants of women and the literature they produced or appeared in and challenge theories that froze "feminine literature" and women's history into historical, repetitive and inconsequential categories. Smart states in her introduction to Italian Women and the City that the book's topic takes its cue from contemporary urban and sociological studies that research the intersection ...