A Woman
by Sibilla Aleramo
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Author: Sibilla AleramoTranslator: Rosalind Delmar
Introduction: Richard Drake
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1983-03-16
ISBN: 0520049497
Number of pages: 220
Publisher: University of California Press
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Summary: 5 Stars
A very personal account of what it is like to be an Italian woman during the fin de siecle. During this political and socio-economic climate, you have a woman writing a book exploring feminism. This book is also a justifcation for leaving her rapist husband and adoring son to have a life to live. The following passage best summarizes her dilemma in terms of a woman being a 'human individual:' 'but how could she possibly become an individual if her parents handed her over, ignorant, weak, and immature, to a man unable to accept her as an equal, a man who treated her like a piece of property....' An important and controversial book still relevant to our post-modern times.
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