Books by Catherine Ramsey-Portolano

Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Writers and the Woman Question focuses on the literary, journalistic and epistolary production of Italian woman writer Neera (Anna Radius Zuccari) one of the most prolific and successful women writers of late-nineteenth-century Italy.

Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Writers and the Woman Question focuses on the literary, journalistic and epistolary production of Italian woman writer Neera (Anna Radius Zuccari) one of the most prolific and successful women writers of late-nineteenth-century Italy.

This book examines how in Italian literature and film, as well as in society, women were confined to traditional roles and illness often represented the consequence for transgressing those roles. Feigning illness offered women a way to "own" the illness and become masters of their bodies as well as their stories and destinies.