Books by Luisa Passerini

Combining the history of ideas and the history of emotions, this work explores the convergence between political and cultural ideas of Europe and the idea of love in the period between the two world wars. The author takes a critical stand towards Euro-centricism.

Understanding Europe's past became an urgent matter with the events of August 1991 in Moscow, in the former Soviet Union

In the new introduction to the paperback edition of this volume in the Memory and Narrative series, Leydesdorff and Crownshaw underline the fundamental importance of the struggle for memory and its meaning.

"Gender and Memory" brings together contributions from around the world and from a range of disciplines, to create a volume that confronts all those concerned with autobiographical testimony and narrative, both spoken and written.

Examines the connection between memory and forgetfulness in Europe during the twentieth century, women's experience of becoming recognized as full subjects in the time of the crisis and "death" of the so-called universal subject, and the conjugation between utopia and desire in the 1968 movements of students, women and workers.

This book is based on the oral life histories of about 70 men and women workers, born between the end of the last century and 1920.