Female Filiations: A Festschrift for Adalgisa Giorgio: Romance Studies

Abstract

The aims of this double issue on Female Filiations in Romance Studies are twofold. On the one hand, the contributors seek to draw renewed attention to women as producers of art, sources of transgenerational memory, promoters of female emancipation and participants in networks of solidarity, networks that are powerful enough to challenge patriarchal hegemonies. On the other hand, it reflects the contributors' desire to honour the scholarship of the outstanding female thinker Dr Adalgisa Giorgio, who has not only advanced our understanding of the literary representation of women, motherhood, maternal practices, daughterhood and sororities but also championed the values of intellectual uprightness, academic mentorship, female solidarity and intellectual transmission between generations of scholars.