LEADER 03562pam 2200565 a 450 001 996247944503316 005 20230828225739.0 010 $a0-520-91138-5 010 $a0-585-07196-9 024 7 $a2027/heb00467 035 $a(CKB)111057870440120 035 $a(MH)002230661-7 035 $a(dli)HEB00467 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000003602987 035 $a(DE-B1597)648495 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520911383 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111057870440120 100 $a19910311d1992 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHow fascism ruled women $eItaly, 1922-1945 /$fVictoria de Grazia$b[electronic resource] 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc1992 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 350 p. )$cill. ; 300 $a"A Centennial book"--P. [iii]. 311 $a0-520-07457-2 311 $a0-520-07456-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 289-338) and index. 327 $a1: The Nationalization of Women -- 2: The Legacy of Liberalism -- 3: Motherhood -- 4: The Family Versus the State -- 5: Growing Up -- 6: Working -- 7: Going Out -- 8: Women's Politics in a New Key -- 9: There Will Come a Day. 330 $a"Italy has been made; now we need to make the Italians," is a long-familiar Italian saying. Mussolini was the first head of government to include women in this mandate. What the fascist dictatorship expected of its female subjects and how they experienced the Duce's brutal but seductive rule are the main topics of Victoria de Grazia's new book. The author draws on an unusual array of sources--memoirs, novels, and reports on the images and events of mass culture, as well as government statistics and archival accounts--to present a broad yet detailed characterization of Italian women's ambiguous and ambivalent experience of a regime that promised women modernity, yet denied them freedom. Always attentive to the great diversity among women and careful to distinguish fascist rhetoric from the practices actually shaping daily existence, de Grazia moves with ease from the public discourse about maternity and family life to the images of femininity in commercial culture. The first study of women's experience under Italian fascism, this book offers a compelling treatment of the making of contemporary Italian society. With acute comparisons between the sexual politics of Italian fascism and developments elsewhere, including Hitler's Germany, de Grazia illuminates trends and dilemmas common to the construction of female citizenship in twentieth-century societies. 606 $aWomen$zItaly$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWomen$xGovernment policy$zItaly$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aFascism$zItaly$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aItaly$xPolitics and government$y1922-1945 608 $aHistory.$2fast 615 0$aWomen$xHistory 615 0$aWomen$xGovernment policy$xHistory 615 0$aFascism$xHistory 676 $a305.42/0945 700 $aDe Grazia$b Victoria$0142226 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bSLR 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996247944503316 996 $aHow fascism ruled women$924644 997 $aUNISA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress