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Donne e Madri Degeneri. Reproduction, Gender, and Class in Liberal Italy (1861-1922)
Donne e Madri Degeneri. Reproduction, Gender, and Class in Liberal Italy (1861-1922)
Donne e Madri Degeneri. Reproduction, Gender, and Class in Liberal Italy (1861-1922)

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자료유형  
 학위논문 서양
최종처리일시  
20260202103700
ISBN  
9798314893654
DDC  
305
저자명  
Bertossa, Michela.
서명/저자  
Donne e Madri Degeneri. Reproduction, Gender, and Class in Liberal Italy (1861-1922)
발행사항  
[Sl] : The Ohio State University, 2025
발행사항  
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
형태사항  
371 p
주기사항  
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-11, Section: A.
주기사항  
Advisor: Renga, Dana;Mullins, Jonathan.
학위논문주기  
Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2025.
초록/해제  
요약In my dissertation, I argue that nineteenth-century eugenic and proto-eugenic theories about crime and degeneration infiltrated the Italian cultural discourse in constructing the figures of the Italian woman and the mother. My work shows how, in Liberal Italy, between the 1860s and 1922, discourses and laws oriented toward the reduction of crime, preservation of respectability, and the control of sexual behaviors among the working class produced specific depictions of femininity in terms of gender and race in literature and early Italian cinema. In the three chapters, I show a continuity and pervasiveness of scientific positivism, criminal anthropology, and eugenic theories in Italian cultural production. I trace this trend in Italian literature and cinema to depict tragic stories about illegitimate mothers and working-class women through the identification of two tropes: the mater degenerata, degenerate mother, and donna degenerata, degenerate woman. These two terms, which better describe the particular Italian case than the "fallen woman trope," show the presence of anxiety toward the reproduction and regeneration of the Italian nation that remains and finds new expression with the advent of fascism. While not directly covering the Fascist era, I argue that fear of degeneration and reproduction anxieties remain a central element of the Italian nation and eventually converge in neofascist movements and the current Italian government. Using historical, film, and literary analysis, this project is situated in Italian Studies, Film Studies, Gender and Cultural Studies. I analyze films and short stories using a biopolitical and feminist lens. This work is structured in three main chapters. In Chapter 1, I focus on the representation of the donna degenerata in literature and early Italian cinema through two specific arguments. First, I argue that the trope of the donna degenerata is presented as a character that disrupts and challenges the constructed bourgeois ideas of Italian womanhood. Secondly, I contend that bourgeois compassion toward working-class women is mediated through a proto-eugenic language and thus remains excluded from participating in Italian political life. In Chapter 2, I focus on the figure of the mater degenerata, the degenerate mother. Through the focus on silent films and short stories that focus on tragic motherly figures, I argue that the reader and the audience could assess the protagonists from the protagonists' incompatibility with motherhood, thanks to the diffusion of positivist treatises and images in popular media that thematized female crime as a social problem. Chapter 3 is a continuation of the mater degenerata discussion with a significant focus on the representation of motherhood during World War I and the Italian Diaspora. I will show how eugenic discourses about race, sexuality, and national regeneration influence the depiction of the Italian mother in literature and cinema, promulgating the idea that women and mothers who do not conform to nationalistic warfare pose a risk to the nation's regenerative process. I will conclude by reflecting on this work and discussing how scientific positivism, criminal anthropology, and eugenic theories helped to shape the concept of Italian motherhood pre- and post-Fascist Italy through film and media. Therefore, focusing more on this cultural phenomenon is necessary to understand women's role in Italy. 
일반주제명  
Gender studies
일반주제명  
Modern history
일반주제명  
Womens studies
일반주제명  
Film studies
일반주제명  
Modern literature
일반주제명  
Romance literature
일반주제명  
Italian literature
키워드  
Liberal Italy
키워드  
Italian women
키워드  
Diva films
키워드  
Italian silent cinema
키워드  
Fascism
키워드  
Positivism
기타저자  
The Ohio State University French and Italian
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-11A.
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