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Leaving the West. Women and harem in the travel narratives of Amalia Nizzoli,
Cristina di Belgioioso and Matilde Serao, 2000, n. 45-46, pp. 54-73
Women's travel narratives of their experiences in the Islamic world have changed the representation of the harem and its inhabitants; from the site of an exotic sexuality presented in men's narratives, and dominating the Western imaginary, to a more realistic description of piaces of constraint and sometimes suffering.
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DE LESPINASSE Julie, Lettere d'amore, edited by Elena Aschieri, Palermo,
Sellerio, 1997
rev. by Luisa Ricaldone, 1998, n. 39-40, pp. 144-147
CHEMELLO Adriana (edited by), Parole scolpite. Profili di scrittrici degli
anni Novanta, Padova, Il Poligrafo, 1998
rev. by Luisa Ricaldone, 1999, n. 42-43, pp. 126-127
Books reviewed by DWF
RICALDONE LUISA (edited by), Incontri di poesia. Mariella Bettarini, Paola
Mastracola, Giulia Niccolai si interrogano su genere e scrittura, Trauben
Edizioni, Torino, 2000
rev. by Laura Fortini, 2001, n. 1, pp. 87-88