VII Editors' Preface
IX Acknowledgments

Part 1
Preliminaries

Rodica Diaconescu-Blumenfeld - Introduction
Dacia Maraini - Reflections on the Logical and Illogical Bodies
of My Sexual Compatriots

Part 2
Demythicizing Genre: Issues of Representation and Language

Ada Testaferri - Detecting Voci
Corrado Federici - Spatialized Gender and the Poetry
of Dacia Maraini
Elisabetta Properzi Nelsen - Ecriture Feminine as Consciousness
of the Condition of Women in Dacia Maraini's Early Narrative

Part 3
Poetics and Practices of Liberation

Virginia Picchietti - Symbolic Mediation and Female Community
in Dacia Maraini ' s Fiction
Giovanna Bellesia - Variations on a Theme: Violence against
Women in the Writings of Dacia Maraini
Daniela Cavallaro - Dacia Maraini's "Barricade Theater"

Historiographies
Giancarlo Lombardi - A memoria: Charting a Cultural
Map for Women's Transition from Preistoria to Storia
Maria Omelia Marotti - La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa:
A Feminist Revisiting of the Eighteenth Century
Paola Carll - Vocal Marginality: Dacia Maraini's Veronica Franco

Part 5
Reclaiming the Body in the Construction of Subjectivity

Rodica Diaconescu-Blumenfeld - Body as Will: Incarnate Voice
in Dacia Maraini
Gabrielle Cody - Remembering What the Closed Eye Sees:
Some Notes on Dacia Maraini's Postmodern Oresteia
Pauline Dagnino - Revolution in the Laundry
Aine O'Healy - Toward a Poor Feminist Cinema:
The Experimental Films of Dacia Maraini

List of Contributors
Index