How Fascism Ruled Women Italy, 1922-1945

Name: How Fascism Ruled Women Italy, 1922-1945
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ISBN: 9780520074576

ISBN-10: 0520074572

ISBN-13: 9780520074576

Edition: 1992

Authors: Victoria de Grazia

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Italy has been made; now we need to make the Italians," goes a familiar Italian saying. Mussolini was the first head of state to include women in this mandate. How the fascist dictatorship defined the place of women in modern Italy and how women experienced theDuce's rule are the subjects of Victoria de Grazia's new work. De Grazia draws on an array of sources--memoirs and novels, the images, songs, and events of mass culture, as well as government statistics and archival reports. She offers a broad yet detailed characterization of Italian women's ambiguous and ambivalent experience of a regime that promised modernity, yet denied women emancipation. Always attentive to the great diversity…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/11/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298

Victoria de Grazia is Professor of History and James R. Barker Professor of Contemporary Civilization, Columbia University.



Preface



The Nationalization of Women



The Legacy of Liberalism



Motherhood



The Family Versus the State



Growing Up



Working



Going Out



Women's Politics in a New Key



There Will Come a Day


Notes


Index