How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922-1945 - Brossura

De Grazia, Victoria

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0520074572 ISBN 13: 9780520074576

Casa editrice: University of California Press, 1993

Riassunto

"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 the Duce'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 among women and careful to distinguish fascist rhetoric from the practices that really shaped daily existence, the author moves with ease from the public discourse about femininity to the images of women in propaganda and commercial culture. She analyzes fascist attempts to organize women and the ways in which Mussolini's intentions were received by women as social actors. The first study of women's experience under Italian fascism, this is also a history of the making of contemporary Italian society.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Victoria de Grazia is Professor of History, Columbia University, and the author of The Culture of Consent: Mass Organization of Leisure in Fascist Italy (1981).

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

"For the common reader as well as the professional one, Victoria de Grazia opens doors and sheds new light on a fascinating subject."—Mary Gordon, author of The Other Side

Su questa edizione

• Editore: University of California Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0520074572
• ISBN 13: 9780520074576
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368