Who is Signorina Sette? Images of the feminine between entertainment, sex and politics in postwar Italy
Journal title STORIA E PROBLEMI CONTEMPORANEI
Author/s Mariapaola Pierini
Publishing Year 2023 Issue 2021/88
Language Italian Pages 20 P. 114-133 File size 284 KB
DOI 10.3280/SPC2021-088007
DOI is like a bar code for intellectual property: to have more infomation
click here
Below, you can see the article first page
If you want to buy this article in PDF format, you can do it, following the instructions to buy download credits
FrancoAngeli is member of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA), a not-for-profit association which run the CrossRef service enabling links to and from online scholarly content.
The essay examines the parable of «Sette», a weekly magazine first published on April 1, 1945. The magazine, whose pages are filled with particularly daring photographs and drawings of female bodies, is an expression of the ambiguous and contradictory subterranean movement - perfectly embodied by one of the creators hidden behind the magazine’s pages, Leo Longanesi - that invests the image of women in the immediate postwar period. «Sette» as well as the Signorina that stands out on its covers, are a crossroads where politics, sex, satire, cinema, news, and culture intersect, and not without contradictions.
Keywords: postwar Italy, sexuality, women, satire, illustration, periodicals
Mariapaola Pierini, Chi è la signorina Sette? Immagini del femminile tra spettacolo, sesso e politica nell’Italia del dopoguerra in "STORIA E PROBLEMI CONTEMPORANEI" 88/2021, pp 114-133, DOI: 10.3280/SPC2021-088007