Elizabeth “Lizzie” Siddal: from muse to wicked witch. Beauty and savoir-faire are not always a virtue for women, it sometimes provoke bad results in the approach with men. Often, the woman-object, treated like a toy, represents a presence that is useful only for men’s pleasure. The characteristic who transform a beautiful woman in an object […]
Autore: Federica Iuso
Virginia Woolf: the pioneer of feminism
LoWomen, who have recklessly challenged the bigoted thought of the period, were those who have, first of all, the characteristics of high intellect. In the Nineteenth century the revolution that was put into effect, was strictly cultural and intellectual. But how it could be happened? Documented by many texts of the period, the society was […]
Femininity at the end of XIX century
Women have always had problems with their social condition that surely conducted them to afford with pain and difficulties life and choices. They represent the weak link of the humanity, with their sensitive nature and are always in opposition to the male sex that is the cause of restrictions, limitations and fears. A big literature […]
“L’estate del cane bambino” di Mario Pistacchio e Laura Toffanello
<<Non si invecchia mai un po’ alla volta. C’è un momento preciso, nella vita, in cui ti accorgi che è successo. È una certezza, e non contano gli anni che hai. Capita quando smetti di andare avanti e ti scopri a guardarti le spalle. Scruti il tempo che se n’è andato. Lì dietro sono rimasti […]