ISBN:
9780520911383
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0520911385
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0585071969
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9780585071961
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiii, 350 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
1st pbk. print
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version How fascism ruled women
DDC:
305.420945
Keywords:
Women History
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20th century
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Italy
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Women Government policy
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History
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20th century
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Italy
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Fascism History
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20th century
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Italy
;
Femmes Histoire
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20e siècle
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Italie
;
Femmes Politique gouvernementale
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Histoire
;
20e siècle
;
Italie
;
Fascisme Histoire
;
20e siècle
;
Italie
;
Women History 20th century
;
Women Government policy 20th century
;
History
;
Fascism History 20th century
;
Women History 20th century
;
Fascism History 20th century
;
Women Government policy 20th century
;
History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Feminism & Feminist Theory
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Fascism
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Politics and government
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Women
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Women ; Government policy
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Fascisme
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Vrouwen
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Overheidsbeleid
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Faschismus
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Femmes et fascisme ; Italie
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Femmes ; Italie ; 1900-1945
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Femmes ; Politique publique ; Italie ; 1900-1945
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Fascisme ; Italie ; Histoire
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Frau
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History
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Italy Politics and government
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1922-1945
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Italie Politique et gouvernement
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1922-1945
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Italy
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Italy Politics and government 1922-1945
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Italy Politics and government 1922-1945
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Italien
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Italie ; Politique et gouvernement ; 1922-1945
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Italy
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Electronic books History
Abstract:
"Italy has been made; now we need to make the Italians," is a long-familiar Italian saying. Mussolini was the first head of government to include women in this mandate. What the fascist dictatorship expected of its female subjects and how they experienced the Duce's brutal but seductive rule are the main topics of Victoria de Grazia's new book. The author draws on an unusual array of sources--memoirs, novels, and reports on the images and events of mass culture, as well as government statistics and archival accounts--to present a broad yet detailed characterization of Italian women's ambiguous and ambivalent experience of a regime that promised women modernity, yet denied them freedom. Always attentive to the great diversity among women and careful to distinguish fascist rhetoric from the practices actually shaping daily existence, de Grazia moves with ease from the public discourse about maternity and family life to the images of femininity in commercial culture. The first study of women's experience under Italian fascism, this book offers a compelling treatment of the making of contemporary Italian society. With acute comparisons between the sexual politics of Italian fascism and developments elsewhere, including Hitler's Germany, de Grazia illuminates trends and dilemmas common to the construction of female citizenship in twentieth-century societies
Note:
"A Centennial book"--Page [iii]. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-338) and index. - Description based on print version record
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-338) and index
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