At the Origins of the Republic: Italian Women Writers and Intellectuals as Protagonists in the Construction of a New Culture

Rome, Carocci, 2020

The volume collects the results of the research project coordinated by Marina Zancan (Fondazione Badaracco, Milan) and Laura Di Nicola (Sapienza University of Rome) and offers a reinterpretation of the cultural and literary history of the second half of the twentieth century through a systematic study of the presence and activities of the leading Italian women writers in the years from 1943 to 1956.