Unit information: Emerging Voices: Women Writers in 20th Century Italy in 2008/09

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Unit name Emerging Voices: Women Writers in 20th Century Italy
Unit code ITAL20023
Credit points 20
Level of study I/5
Teaching block(s) Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12)
Unit director Dr. Benchouiha
Open unit status Not open
Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

None

School/department Department of Italian
Faculty Faculty of Arts

Description including Unit Aims

The aim of this unit is to explore a range of writing by Italian women spanning the twentieth century and read against the wider context of the position of women in Italian society over this period as challenged by early-twentieth century proto-feminists through to second wave feminists of the 1970s onwards.