Women in Twentieth-century Italy

by Willson, Perry

• ISBN13: 9781403995179
• ISBN10: 1403995176
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-15
• Publisher: Red Globe Pr

Summary

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 affected by, and helped to shape, historical change.

Author Biography

Perry Wilson is a widely-published and respected academic in the field, and keen to write this textbook as a result of a lack of suitable books with which to teach her course.

Table of Contents

Glossary * List of Illustrations * 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 * '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 Less Children in the Age of Materialism *
Conclusion * Select Bibliography * Index