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| Scholarly Review |
 | In Corpore
ISBN# 9780838641644
Reviewed by: Carol Lazzaro-Weis
Journal of Romance Studies, Vol. 10, No. 2 |
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The essays in Polezzi and Ross's In Corpore investigate a large variety of strategies toward 'the productive resignification or rethinking of the ways in which we relate to experience or compulsively consume our own and others' bodies.'
Well researched and informative, there is plenty of new research in this book to shed light on the struggles of post-unification Italy in it's attempts to become European and stay Italian, whatever that meant, at a specific place and time in history. The concept of the 'other' in this work leads to the importance of gender analysis as a critical tool for all the sexes insofar as all of their works tell us what obstacles they faced due to gender in a specific time and place. Luisa Passerini (1996) lamented that there was little written in English about gender relations in Italy. The team of critics in the work under review here work to annul and challenge that statement as they attest to a new interdisciplinarity in Italian gender and sexuality studies.
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