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UNINA9910820376303321 |
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Titolo |
Mothers of invention : women, Italian fascism, and culture / / Robin Pickering-Iazzi, editor |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1995 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women in popular culture - Italy |
Women - Political activity - Italy |
Women in literature |
Fascism - Italy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Inventions of Women's Making, in History and Critical Thought; 1 Feminism and Socialism in Anna Kuliscioff's Writings; 2 Gender Struggle and the Social Manipulation and Ideological Use of Gender Identity in the Interwar Years; 3 Women, Futurism, and Fascism; 4 Fascist Theories of ""Woman"" and the Construction of Gender; 5 Fascist Women and the Rhetoric of Virility; 6 The Power of Style: Fashion and Self-Fashioning in Irene Brin's Journalistic Writing; 7 Sibilla Aleramo: Writing a Personal Myth |
8 Antonietta Raphaël: Artist, Woman, Foreigner, Jew, Wife, Mother, Muse, and Anti-Fascist 9 Alba De Céspedes's There's No Turning Back: Challenging the New Woman's Future; 10 Reading, Writing, and Rebellion: Collectivity, Specularity, and Sexuality in the Italian Schoolgirl Comedy, 1934-43; Appendix: Chronology of Italian Fascism and Women in History and Criticism; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This volume is the first thorough investigation of culture produced by Italian women under Fascism (1922-1943). In literature, painting, sculpture, film, and fashion, the contributors explore the politics of invention articulated by these women as they negotiated prevailing |
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