Introduction; P. Morris ‘What’ as Ideal and ‘Who’ as Real: Portrait of Wives and Mothers in Italian Postwar Domestic Manuals, Fiction, and Film; R. West Marriage, Motherhood, and the Italian Film Stars of the 1950s; R. Buckley From Bust to Boom: Women and Representations of Prosperity in Italian Cinema of the Late 1940s and 1950s; M. P. Wood Signorina Buonasera – Images of Women in Early Italian Television; S. Gundle City of Women: Sex and Sports at the 1960 Rome Olympic Games; N. Zonis Scene femminili: Educational Theater for Women; D. Cavallaro The Harem Exposed: Gabriella Parca’s Le italiane si confessano; P. Morris Prostitutes and Politicians: The Women’s Right Movement in the Legge Merlin Debates; M. Tambor Women’s Writing in the Postwar Period; S. Wood ‘Feminist’ Fictions? Representations of Self and (M) Other in the Works of Anna Banti; U. Fanning Re/Constructing Domestic Space: INA-Casa and Public Housing in Postwar Rome or Women’s Space in a Man-Made World; E. Nerenberg ‘I don’t want to die’: Prostitution and Narrative Disruption in Visconti’s Rocco e i suoi fratelli; D. Hipkins Strong Women and Nontraditional Mothers: The Female Figures in Napoli Milionaria! and Filumena Marturano by Eduardo de Filippo; D. Fischer What Do Mothers Want? Takes on Motherhood in Bellissima, Il Grido, and Mamma Roma; L. Caldwell Index

PENELOPE MORRISis Lecturer in Italian, University of Glasgow, UK.