CONTENTS

Preface

ix

Notes on the Contributors 1 The 1970s through the Looking Glass

ANNA CENTO BULL a n d ADALGISA GIORGIO

x 1

PART I. ISSUES A N D O V E R V I E W S 2 3 Italy in the 1970s between Self-Expression and Organicism

PIERO IGNAZI

10

Listening and Silencing. Italian Feminists in the 1970s: Between autocoscienza and Terrorism
PAOLA DI CORI

30 42

4 5

Women in Italy in the 1970s

AMALIA SIGNORELLI

Is the Political Personal? Fathers and Sons in Bertolucci's Tragedia di un uomo ridicolo and Amelio's Colpire al cuore
LESLEY CALDWELL

69 81

6 7

A Leaden Silence? Writers' Responses to the anni di piombo

JENNIFER BURNS

From Little Girls to Bad Girls: Women's Writing and Experimentalism in the 1970s and 1990s
ADALGISA GIORGIO

95 115

The Difficulty of a Historical Perspective on the 1970s

ENRICO PALANDRI

P A R T II. CASE S T U D I E S 9 to 11 12 The Radicals: An Ambiguous Contribution to Political Innovation

MARK DONOVAN

122 132 146 161

Intellectual Unemployment and Political Radicalism in Italy, 1968-1982

CARL LEVY

The Red Brigades and the Moro Kidnapping: Secrets and Lies
ROBERTO BARTALI

Allende, Berlinguer, Pinochet... and Dario Fo

TOM BEHAN

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CONTHNTS

13 14

'A riconquistare la rossa primavera': The N e o - R e s i s t a n c e of the 1970s

PHILIP COOKE

172

Collective M e m o r y and C h i l d h o o d N a r r a t i v e s : R e w r i t i n g the 1970s in the 1990s

CLAUDIA BERNARDI

185

15 16 17

Becoming Visible: Did the Emancipation of W o m e n Reach the Sicilian Mafia?

VALERIA P1ZZINI GAMBETTA

201 212

T h e Left a n d t h e Construction of l m m i g r a n t s in 1970s Italy

DAVIDE PER

From the Centrality of the Working Class to its Demise:The Case of Bagnoli, N a p l e s
ANNA C E N T O B U L L .

227 241

Index