| Description |
1 online resource (304 pages) |
| Contents |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Inventions of Women's Making, in History and Critical Thought; 1 Feminism and Socialism in Anna Kuliscioff's Writings; 2 Gender Struggle and the Social Manipulation and Ideological Use of Gender Identity in the Interwar Years; 3 Women, Futurism, and Fascism; 4 Fascist Theories of "Woman" and the Construction of Gender; 5 Fascist Women and the Rhetoric of Virility; 6 The Power of Style: Fashion and Self-Fashioning in Irene Brin's Journalistic Writing; 7 Sibilla Aleramo: Writing a Personal Myth |
| Summary |
This volume is the first thorough investigation of culture produced by Italian women under Fascism (1922-1943). In literature, painting, sculpture, film, and fashion, the contributors explore the politics of invention articulated by these women as they negotiated prevailing ideologies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 21, 2019) |
| Subject |
Women in popular culture -- Italy
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Women -- Political activity -- Italy
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Women in literature.
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Fascism -- Italy.
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Fascism
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Women in literature
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Women in popular culture
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Women -- Political activity
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Italy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pickering-Iazzi, Robin, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780816686698 |
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0816686696 |
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