Women in twentieth-century Italy /

Women in twentieth-century Italy /

"This is one of the first overviews of the experience of Italian women in the twentieth century. Willson captures the complexity of women's lives in a socially, geographically and politically diverse society, highlighting the ways in which women of different social classes and regions were...

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Main Author: Willson, Perry R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Series:Gender and history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Subjects:
Women > Italy > History > 20th century.
Women > Italy > Social conditions > 20th century.
Feminism > Italy > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Italian women at the dawn of the twentieth century
  • The 'Tower of Babel': first-wave feminism
  • On the 'home front': World War One and its aftermath, 1915-20
  • 'Exemplary wives and mothers': under fascist dictatorship
  • Doing their duty for nation (or church): mass mobilisation during the fascist Ventennio
  • War comes to women, 1940-45
  • Moving into town: new social and economic roles, 1945-67
  • Women's politics in the shadow of the Cold War, 1945-67
  • 'Io sono mia': feminism in the 'Great Cultural Revolution', 1968-80
  • The 'Dual Presence': more work and fewer children in the age of materialism
  • Conclusion.