Women of a certain age
Subtitle: contemporary Italian fictions of female aging
By: Rita C. Cavigioli.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Italian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Italian fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.; Aging in literature.; Women in literature.
Description: "Situated at the crossroads of gender studies, narratology, and cultural studies, this book investigates the impact that the demographic and cultural revolutions of the last century have had on Italian women's life courses." "The chronological focus of this study is the 1990s, a decade located at the end of a century deeply marked by women's search for identity, their growth as historical subjects, and the demographic explosion of older women in Italy's population. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, women's life expectancy has doubled in a European country that today competes with Spain for the world's lowest birth rate and that counts more elderly than young people."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.