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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking account of the two largest autonomous women’s associations in Italy during the early Cold War—the UDI and the CIF—and how they developed an active Italian and global agenda for the advancement of women’s rights
Trade Review"Italian Women and International Cold War Politics, 1944-1968 identifies a real gap in scholarship on international women's movements on the period between World War Two and the Second Wave feminist movement of the 1970s This book address that gap offering an engaging and well documented account of two Italian women's associations, the UDI and the CIF. Pojmann offers both new and original material, and develops critical understanding of an important and generally overlooked stage in women's organizations." -- -Helen LaVille University of Birmingham "The history of two important Italian women's organizations, the Unione Donne Italiane (UDI) and the Catholic Centro Italiano Femminile (CIF), set in the context of the Cold War era, 1945-68, is a valuable contribution to the scholarship of women's organizations and national and international politics. " -- -Karen Garner SUNY Empire State College "Pojmann's work is an excellent addition to literature on women's movements, postwar Italy, and the complexity of Cold War politics." -H-Net Reviews "The book should find an audience among scholars who will value access to new Italian evidence, as well as in undergraduate classrooms, where students of women's history and students of contemporary European history will both have a reading either of the whole book or of specific sections to provide strong coverage of the Cold War years in their syllabi. The real value here is, as I stated at the beginning of this review, that English-language readers are now being enabled to join the conversation about gendering the Cold War and about the significance of Italy as a laboratory of politics; and Pojmann's book makes a very useful contribution to that project." -H-Diplo
