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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457364703321

Autore

Spackman Barbara <1952->

Titolo

Fascist virilities [[electronic resource] ] : rhetoric, ideology, and social fantasy in Italy / / Barbara Spackman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1996

ISBN

0-8166-8732-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Disciplina

305.3

Soggetti

Fascism and sex - Italy

Fascism and women - Italy

Fascism - Italy - Psychological aspects

Masculinity - Italy

Rhetoric - Political aspects - Italy

Electronic books.

Italy Politics and government 1922-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-182) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Rhetorics of Virility: D'Annunzio, Marinetti, Mussolini, Benjamin; 2 Fascist Women and the Rhetoric of Virility; 3 Mafarka and Son: Marinetti's Homophobic Economics; 4 D'Annunzio and the Antidemocratic Fantasy; 5 Fascism as Discursive Regime; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Exploring different conceptions of virility-as well as the reproductive fantasies they produce-in a selection of Italian political manifestos and literary writings, Fascist Virilities exposes the relation between fascist rhetoric and ideology.