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Women’s Cultural Production in Modern and Contemporary Italy
Deadline: Oct 1, 2020
Sharon Hecker, IES Abroad/Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano Women’s Cultural Production in Modern and Contemporary Italy
Edited Volume by Sharon Hecker and Catherine Ramsey Portolano
We welcome proposals from scholars in all fields that examine contributions made by women in Italy to any kind of intellectual, artistic or cultural production during the period 1861 to the pre- sent.
We seek to analyze the challenges that Italian women engaged in cultural production have faced and the strategies they have put into action to achieve their objectives.
This could include, but is not limited to, essays about women’s self-identification and public own- ership of their professional roles as laborers in the intellectual and cultural realm, or essays about Italian societal perceptions of the female production of culture as a bona fide form of labor, includ- ing questions surrounding public recognition at home and abroad, as well as monetary remunera- tion.
Essays about the portrayal of labor by and about female artists, authors, poets, journalists, critics, curators, architects and designers are invited, as well as examinations of the ways in which wom- en in Italy have attempted to react to or circumvent problems, and the modes in which their profes- sional work has been publicly perceived/received. Case studies that address Italy’s specific histori- cal, religious and political issues, from Catholicism to Fascism to the Berlusconi era, as related to the theme of creative female labor are welcome.
Creative couples in which the female partner has either abdicated her professional production, kept it hidden in the shadows, found support through partnership, or used her position for profes- sional leverage are another realm of interest.
Please send 250-word proposals, along with a provisional essay title and a 150-word bio, to: crea- tivefemalelabor@gmail.com
Deadline for receipt of abstracts: October 1, 2020
Reference:
CFP: Women’s Cultural Production in Modern and Contemporary Italy. In: ArtHist.net, Sep 13, 2020 (accessed Feb 27, 2022), <https://arthist.net/archive/23468>.
