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A Woman By Sibilla Aleramo
A Woman By Sibilla Aleramo
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Published: 07/05/2020
Genres: Classics - Feminism - Fiction - Italian Literature - Italy - Womens - Novels
Written in 1906, Aleramo’s blistering autobiographical novel is a pioneering work of European feminism decades ahead of its time. Angry, crusading and intensely powerful, A Woman is a bitter denunciation of turn-of-the-century Italian society and the constraints and expectations placed upon women of the period.
'To love, to sacrifice oneself, and to submit! Was this what all women were destined for?'
When her carefree, aspirational childhood in a seaside town is brought brutally to an end, the nameless narrator of Sibilla Aleramo's blazing autobiographical novel discovers the shocking reality of life for a woman in Italy at the dawn of the twentieth century. As she begins to recognize the similarities between her own predicament and the plight of her mother and the women around her, she becomes convinced that she must escape her fate. Unashamed and remarkably ahead of its time, A Woman is a landmark in European feminist writing.
Publisher information
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780241345726
Number of pages: 240
Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 15 mm
Weight: 183 g
Language: English (Language of text), Italian (Original language of a translated text)
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