Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE: Camilla Faà Gonzaga: Public and Private in a Woman's Autobiography; TWO: Speaking through Her Body: The Futurist Seduction of a Woman's Voice; THREE: From Genealogy to Gynealogy and Beyond: Fausta Cialente's Le quattro ragazze Wieselberger; FOUR: Rita Levi Montalcini's Perfect Imperfection: A Woman's Role in the Public Sphere; FIVE: Luisa Passerini's Autoritratto di gruppo: Personalizing Theory; CONCLUSION: Beyond Gynealogical Techniques: Writing Private History and Public Stories; Notes; Index
Summary
Parati examines the ways in which Italian women writers articulate their identities through autobiographya public act that is also the creation of a private life. Considering autobiographical writings by five women writers from the seventeenth century to the present, Parati draws important connections between self-writing and the debate over womens roles, both traditional and transgressive
