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[ecrea] Visions of Struggle

Sun Sep 06 09:55:57 GMT 2009



Dear Colleagues,

I wish to inform you about the imminent publication of the following volume.

Visions of Struggle in Womenâ??s Filmmaking in the Mediterranean

Edited by Flavia Laviosa, Wellesley College

Palgrave MacMillan, 2010

Preface by Laura Mulvey

Focusing on countries in the Mediterranean rim, as the unifying geo-cultural location for a contemporary discussion on womenâ??s human, civil and social rights, this book elaborates a trans-cultural definition of being a woman in struggle. This provocative collection situates feminist arguments on questions of womenâ??s identity, roles, psychology and sexuality. Such issues are examined through the films of women directors from Mediterranean countries, whose cinema is relevant to the discourse of womenâ??s studies. Although their methodologies are diverse, these artists are united in their use of cinema as a means of intervention, taking on the role as outspoken and leading advocates for womenâ??s problems. Their cinematic art reproduces and structures the discourses of realism, recreating prototypical characters and figurations and magnifying the complex and unambiguous truths about womenâ??s political, class, war and gender struggles. Contributors examine representations of womenâ??s unresolved issues and violated rights in films that are expressions of cultural challenges and socio-political commitment for Mediterranean womenâ??s collective experience of struggle.


Best regards,


Flavia Laviosa

Senior Lecturer
Department of Italian Studies
Wellesley College
106 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02481
USA

Tel.: +1-781-283-2618
Fax: +1-781-283-2876
<http://www.wellesley.edu/Italian/flaviosa/index.html>http://www.wellesley.edu/Italian/flaviosa/index.html

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