Women in Twentieth-century Italy

by Willson, Perry

• ISBN13: 9781403995186
• ISBN10: 1403995184
• Format: Paperback
• 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

List of Illustrations and Tables	p. vi
Glossary	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Italian Women at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century	p. 4
The 'Tower of Babel': First-Wave Feminism	p. 24
On the 'Home Front': World War One and its Aftermath, 1915-20	p. 43
'Exemplary Wives and Mothers': Under Fascist Dictatorship	p. 61
Doing their Duty for Nation (or Church): Mass Mobilisation during the Fascist Ventennio	p. 79
War Comes to Women, 1940-45	p. 96
Moving into Town: New Social and Economic Roles, 1945-67	p. 112
Women's Politics in the Shadow of the Cold War, 1945-67	p. 129
'Io Sono Mia': Feminism in the 'Great Cultural Revolution', 1968-80	p. 149
The 'Dual Presence': More Work and Fewer Children in the Age of Materialism	p. 168
Conclusion	p. 186
Notes	p. 190
Select Bibliography	p. 218
Index	p. 220
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