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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pickering-Iazzi, Robin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in popular culture--Italy.

Women in popular culture.

Women--Political activity--Italy.

Women.

Women in literature.

Fascism--Italy.

Fascism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8669-6

OCLC:

476093961