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- catalog 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.".
- catalog contributor b3210909.
- catalog coverage "Italy Politics and government 1922-1945.".
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "1: The Nationalization of Women -- 2: The Legacy of Liberalism -- 3: Motherhood -- 4: The Family Versus the State -- 5: Growing Up -- 6: Working -- 7: Going Out -- 8: Women's Politics in a New Key -- 9: There Will Come a Day.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-338) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 350 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0520074564 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog spatial "Italy Politics and government 1922-1945.".
- catalog spatial "Italy".
- catalog subject "305.42/0945 20".
- catalog subject "Fascism Italy History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "HQ1638 .D4 1991".
- catalog subject "Women Government policy Italy History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Women Italy History 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1: The Nationalization of Women -- 2: The Legacy of Liberalism -- 3: Motherhood -- 4: The Family Versus the State -- 5: Growing Up -- 6: Working -- 7: Going Out -- 8: Women's Politics in a New Key -- 9: There Will Come a Day.".
- catalog title "How fascism ruled women : Italy, 1922-1945 / Victoria de Grazia.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".