ISBN:
9780816626519
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0816626510
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0816626502
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9780816686698
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxxii, 271 p)
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ill
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Mothers of Invention : Women, Italian Facism, and Culture
DDC:
305.4/0945
Keywords:
Fascism
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Women in literature
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Women in politics
;
Women in popular culture
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Fascism ; Italy
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Women ; Political activity ; Italy
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Women in literature
;
Women in popular culture ; Italy
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Electronic books
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Abstract:
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
Description / Table of 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
Description / Table of Contents:
8 Antonietta Raphaël: Artist, Woman, Foreigner, Jew, Wife, Mother, Muse, and Anti-Fascist9 Alba De Céspedes's There's No Turning Back: Challenging the New Woman's Future; 10 Reading, Writing, and Rebellion: Collectivity, Specularity, and Sexuality in the Italian Schoolgirl Comedy, 1934-43; Appendix: Chronology of Italian Fascism and Women in History and Criticism; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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