Women of the Shadows
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With haunting photographs and piercing descriptions, Women of the Shadows depicts the secluded women of southern Italy and their passionate, painful, heartrending existence. Cornelisen, who lived among these women in the mountainous villages of Lucania after World War II, reveals their struggles during a time when most of their men had to leave for factories in the industrial north. The women remained behind to work the fields. There's Peppina, Ninetta, Teresa, Maria, Pinuccia, and Cettina, all women who have done things of which they are not proud; they know it in their hearts, as one woman said, that nothing is private, they would also agree with her conclusion: That doesn't mean you get used to it. With an extraordinary understanding of the interior lives of these and other women, Cornelisen brings them out of the shadows to tell their heroic stories in a book which truly merits the label classic. A new introduction by the author suggests that the more things change, the more, in essence, they remain the same.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:158642016X
ISBN13:9781586420161
Release Date:August 2001
Publisher:Steerforth Press
Length:220 Pages
Weight:0.62 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"
Customer Reviews
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Glimpses of Southern Italian Women in the 60's and 70's
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
Well written biographies of a handful of women. Noble,tragic, clever, wise. What an eye opener this book is!I recommend it to anyone trying to understand Italy
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