Acknowledgments ix Introduction 3 1 Mothers at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century 12 The New Mother 12 From Mother to Daughter: Annie Vivanti's The Devourers 23 The Mother as Artist: Luigi Pirandello's Suo marito 25 A Revolution Named Sibilla 28 Self-Sacrifice and Marian Imagery 32 The Invisible Working Woman 3 9 2Resilience and Resistance: The Fascist Years 43 From Benevolence to Dominance 43 Literature and the Escape from History 45 Mothers without a Name and the Search for Women's Identity 47 Mothers at War 52 'Like War Is to Men' 58 Future as a Revised Version of the Past 60 No Turning Back 67 3Questioning Motherhood 74 Slow Changes 74 The Tigress in the Snow 78 'Una Maternità Sociale': The Upheaval of the 1970s 84 Too Close, Too Far: Motherhood as a Dialogue with the Self 89 4Struggling with the Mother 94 Through the Daughters' Voices 94 The Mother and the City 102 Daughter and Mother 110 5 Mothers without Children 114 From Flesh to Phantom 114 The Symbolic Order of the Mother 116 A World of Mothers 119 Notes 123 Works Cited 149 Index 161
Acknowledgments ix Introduction 3 1 Mothers at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century 12 The New Mother 12 From Mother to Daughter: Annie Vivanti's The Devourers 23 The Mother as Artist: Luigi Pirandello's Suo marito 25 A Revolution Named Sibilla 28 Self-Sacrifice and Marian Imagery 32 The Invisible Working Woman 3 9 2Resilience and Resistance: The Fascist Years 43 From Benevolence to Dominance 43 Literature and the Escape from History 45 Mothers without a Name and the Search for Women's Identity 47 Mothers at War 52 'Like War Is to Men' 58 Future as a Revised Version of the Past 60 No Turning Back 67 3Questioning Motherhood 74 Slow Changes 74 The Tigress in the Snow 78 'Una Maternità Sociale': The Upheaval of the 1970s 84 Too Close, Too Far: Motherhood as a Dialogue with the Self 89 4Struggling with the Mother 94 Through the Daughters' Voices 94 The Mother and the City 102 Daughter and Mother 110 5 Mothers without Children 114 From Flesh to Phantom 114 The Symbolic Order of the Mother 116 A World of Mothers 119 Notes 123 Works Cited 149 Index 161
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