Mothers of invention : women, Italian fascism, and culture / / Robin Pickering-Iazzi, editor

• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1995
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.4/0945
• Soggetto topico: Women in popular culture - Italy; Women - Political activity - Italy; Women in literature; Fascism - Italy
• Altri autori: Pickering-IazziRobin
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 ideologies.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mothers of invention
• ISBN: 0-8166-8669-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820376303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II