Relational Spaces: Daughterhood, Motherhood, and Sisterhood in Dacia Maraini's Writings and Films »

"As one of Italy's renowned twentieth-century authors and a founder of the late twentieth-century Italian women's movement, Dacia Maraini has been a keen observer of social realities, and has produced a body of work chronicling women's experiences in Italy. To chart these experiences, she has addressed questions of identity, subjectivity, and their cultural construction. Many of her texts situate the heroines in social discourses at the heart of the changing landscape of postwar Italian society." Undertaken from the 1960s to the present, Martini's textual investigation of the relationship between her heroines and these discourses has lead to the analysis of the primary site of women's development, the family.