This book looks into Banti's stance on Italian feminism, Other a specific focus on her interpretation of the concept of "equality" as well as of "sexual difference". An analysis of a novel, A Piercing Cry (1981), and two short stories, "The Women Are Dying" (1951) and "Je vous écris d'un pays lointain" (1971), explores the aforementioned issues. The book also deals to some extent Other the most famous of Banti's works, the magnum opus Artemisia (1947). Because A Piercing Cry is a source of auto..