LEADER 02609pam a2200373 a 4500003 hubpceuo 005 20221130143140.0 008 910311s1992 caua b s001 0 eng 010 91008901 020 0520074564 (alk. paper) 040 DLC |cDLC |dDLC |dhubpceuo |beng 041 eng 043 e-it--- 050 00 HQ1638 |b.D4 1991 082 00 305.42/0945 |220 100 1 De Grazia, Victoria, |d1946- 245 10 How fascism ruled women : |bItaly, 1922-1945 / |cVictoria de Grazia. 260 Berkeley : |bUniversity of California Press, |cc1992. 300 xiii, 350 p. : |bill. ; |c24 cm. 500 "A Centennial book"--P. [iii]. 504 Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-338) and index. 520 "Italy has been made now we need to make the Italians," goes a familiar Italian saying. Mussolini was the first head of state to include women in this mandate. How the fascist dictatorship defined the place of women in modern Italy and how women experienced the Duce's rule are the subjects of Victoria de Grazia's new work. De Grazia draws on an array of sources--memoirs and novels, the images, songs, and events of mass culture, as well as government statistics and archival reports. She offers a broad yet detailed characterization of Italian women's ambiguous and ambivalent experience of a regime that promised modernity, yet denied women emancipation. Always attentive to the great diversity among women and careful to distinguish fascist rhetoric from the practices that really shaped daily existence, the author moves with ease from the public discourse about femininity to the images of women in propaganda and commercial culture. She analyzes fascist attempts to organize women and the ways in which Mussolini's intentions were received by women as social actors. The first study of women's experience under Italian fascism, this is also a history of the making of contemporary Italian society. 580 The Roger Griffin ComFas Collection 650 0 Women |zItaly |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Women |xGovernment policy |zItaly |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Fascism |zItaly |xHistory |y20th century. 651 0 Italy |xPolitics and government |y1922-1945. 880 |6245 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6305_420000000000000_0945_DEG |70 |8GEN |9160999OSA |bOSA |d2022-11-18 |eComFas |l0 |o305.42/0945 DEG |r2022-11-18 |w2022-11-18 |yBK |cGeneral Stacks 920 01 3YRVy2Y1 992 01 305_420000000000000_0945_DEG |bWZU_VXZZZZZZZZZZZZZ_ZQVU_MLJ 966 |cIn the Research Room