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Author Pojmann, Wendy A. (Wendy Ann), author.

Title Italian women and international Cold War politics, 1944-1968 / Wendy Pojmann
Edition First edition
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 234 pages)
Contents Daughters of the resistance, 1943-1946 -- Cold War housewives? 1947-1949 -- Mothers for peace, 1950-1955 -- The push for autonomy and women's rights, 1956-1959 -- Opening to the center, 1960-1963 -- Confronting the youth generation, 1964-1968 -- Conclusion : the results of women's cold war political activism
Summary The women of the Socialist/Communist Unione Donne Italiane (UDI) and the lay Catholic Centro Italiano Femminile (CIF) are the protagonists in this keen study of the relationship between national Italian women's associations and international women's movements from 1944, when the associations became active, to 1968, when another generation of activists led women's movements in a new direction
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Cold War.
Feminism -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
Women's rights -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Feminism
Women's rights
Italy
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012039725
ISBN 9780823250349
0823250342