03110nam 2200649 a 450 991082037630332120200520144314.00-8166-8669-6(CKB)1000000000347099(EBL)310338(OCoLC)476093961(SSID)ssj0000205870(PQKBManifestationID)11174489(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000205870(PQKBWorkID)10193501(PQKB)11622112(MiAaPQ)EBC310338(OCoLC)567981327(MdBmJHUP)muse39432(Au-PeEL)EBL310338(CaPaEBR)ebr10159363(CaONFJC)MIL522555(EXLCZ)99100000000034709919950323d1995 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrMothers of invention women, Italian fascism, and culture /Robin Pickering-Iazzi, editor1st ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc19951 online resource (304 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-2651-0 0-8166-2650-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Myth8 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; IndexThis 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 ideologies.Women in popular cultureItalyWomenPolitical activityItalyWomen in literatureFascismItalyWomen in popular cultureWomenPolitical activityWomen in literature.Fascism305.4/0945Pickering-Iazzi Robin786220MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820376303321Mothers of invention3972992UNINA