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La palermitana Giuseppina Torregrossa (1956-) retrata en II conto delle minne una figura clave de su narrativa: la de la venerable Águeda1, modelo de resistencia y rebelión contra los códigos normativos de su época. A nivel metodológico, este artículo toma como punto de partida esta obra de Torregrossa para corroborar cómo, en su mayoría, las mujeres siculas han cincelado su poliédrica identidad entre fogones, esto es, en un espacio cultural y gastronómico cardinal para el bienestar y el progreso de la familia. Sin embargo, encomendándose a la santa y manifestando la fuerza discursiva de las humanidades médicas, la autora del texto pone asimismo de relieve la cuestión del cáncer de mama dentro del contexto femenino siciliano: la integridad de los senos, símbolo identitario de la feminidad, parecía depender de los designios de una santa a la que había que venerar con idolatría, con sapiencia y con profundo respeto.

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The Palermitan Giuseppina Torregrossa (1956-) portrays in Il conto delle minne a key figure in her narrative: that of the venerable Agatha, a model of resistance and rebellion against the normative codes of her time. Methodologically, this article takes this work by Torregrossa as a starting point to confirm how, for the most part, Sicilian women have shaped their multifaceted identity in the kitchen, that is, in a cultural and gastronomic space crucial for the well-being and progress of the family. However, by commending herself to the saint and manifesting the discursive power of medical humanities, the author of the text also features the matter of breast cancer within the Sicilian female context: the integrity of breasts, a symbolic identity of femininity, seemed to depend on the dictates of a saint who had to be venerated with idolatry, wisdom and profound respect.

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