Session Details

Wednesday, 29 December

360. Gender and Cultural Identities from the 1600s to World War I

8:30–9:45 a.m., Jefferson, Loews

Program arranged by the Division on Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature

Presiding: Andrea Ciccarelli, Indiana Univ., Bloomington

1. “Feminization of Objects and Objectification of Women: Historic and Geographic Evidence of Gender Construction,” Alan Jose, Univ. of California, Berkeley

2. “Verga and the Failure of Verismo as Realist Theater: Lalupa,” William Van Watson, Univ. of Arizona

3. “From the Lumiere Cinematographe to the Theater of Silence: Gender and Identity in Early Italian Film Discourse,” John Patrick Welle, Univ. of Notre Dame

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