Le donne nel regime fascista

Vorrei che l'anziana contadina piemontese, madre di nove figli che nel 1983 ha detto "se fossero gli uomini a partorire, le famiglie avrebbero al massimo due figli" diventasse la mia nuova migliore amica

I had read de Grazia’s great book on the spread of American-style consumer capitalism in Europe in the early/mid-20th century, so was excited to pick this one up. She situates Italian fascism’s policies towards women as existing in a luminal space between the ideology’s misogyny, women’s efforts to Leggi tutto

You can see that the author really investigated. I read this for university, it was worth it. I am currently living in Italy so I was very interested in how women lifes changed after Mussolini came to power and to see how diferent was the situation comparing with my own country, Spain, which was als Leggi tutto

In How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922-1945, Victoria De Grazia details the myriad and conflicting ways in which Italy's Fascist regime sought to control women. The main takeaway for me is the contradictory nature of Italian fascist ideology and politics as it related to women. Mussolini initially s Leggi tutto

Enjoyed reading her views on women and fascism in Italy, and how women’s roles changed under Mussolini’s power. DeGrazia is very thorough in her writings, especially dealing with motherhood, growing up, and the state of women and politics during the changing time period. I had to read this for a gra Leggi tutto

Lacks a proper introduction and conclusion, but de Grazia makes up for it in an excellent work of scholarship which chronicles the twists and turns of the inherently contradictory fascist understanding of the world and gender in particular. Whilst the fascist state demanded that women confine themse Leggi tutto

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