By examining seven major reviews (the French “Revue des deux Mondes”, the “Revue de
Paris” and the “Nouvelle Revue”; the Italian “Nuova Antologia”, the “Rassegna
Nazionale”, the “Rivista europea” and the “Revue internationale”) this thesis investigate
the female participation in high quality journalism in Italy and France between the 1870s
and the First World War. The aim is to show that despite some obvious limitations, women
found room in that apparently very ‘male’ space of culture and emerged on a considerable
scale in all walks of the profession. Many women regularly published on high quality
reviews. Some of them even rose to high positions on editorials board. With the exception
of a few fields of knowledge – albeit fundamental to the journals’ overall structure – such
as economics, finance and matters to do with the army and the colonies, women
contributors covedered nearly all the range of subjects contained in this periodicals: not
only fiction, but also literary criticism, travelogues, politics and others. Quality and
cultural journals offered women writers a considerable space for entering the public
sphere, as both authors and readers. It may thus construed on a dual plane: as an
opportunity for women writers to join the new professional ranks of modern publishing,
but also as an important terrain for acknowledgment of their standing as intellectuals.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unibo.it/oai:amsdottorato.cib.unibo.it:1103 |
| Date | 23 June 2008 |
| Creators | Vignuzzi, Maria Cecilia <1981> |
| Contributors | Porciani, Ilaria, Pécout, Gilles |
| Publisher | Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna |
| Source Sets | Università di Bologna |
| Language | Italian |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Doctoral Thesis, PeerReviewed |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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