Drs. Laura Salsini and Virginia Picchietti, eds., Writing and Performing Female Identity in Italian Culture. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).  This volume investigates the ways in which Italian women writers, filmmakers, and performers have represented female identity across genres from the immediate post-World War II period to the turn of the twenty-first century. Considering genres such as prose, poetry, drama, and film, these essays examine the vision of female agency and self-actualization arising from women artists’ critique of female identity.