Queer(ing) gender in Italian women's writing: Maraini, Sapienza, Morante

In: Italian modernities vol. 35

Abstract

A Queer Reading of 1970s-1980s Italian Women's Writing -- From Madonna to Whore, or Femininity Undone -- The Fall of the Patriarch, or Masculinity Undone -- Queer Time: Overthrowing the Bourgeois, Reproductive Imperative -- Queer Space: Physical and Symbolical Dis/locations off the Normative Path -- Sexual Fluidity and Textual Hybridity in Autobiographical Women's Writing -- Conclusion.