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Book SynopsisThis volume investigates the culture produced by Italian women during the reign of fascism (1922-1943).
Table of ContentsIntroduction - inventions of women's making in history and critical thought, Robin Pickering-Iazzi; feminism and socialism in Anna Kuliscioff's writings, Rosalia Colombo Ascari; gender struggle and the social manipulation and ideological use of gender identity in the interwar years, Mariolina Graziosi; women, futurism and Fascism, Clara Orban; Fascist theories of "woman" and the construction of gender, Lucia Re; Fascist women and the rhetoric of virility, Barbara Spackman; the power of style - fashion and self-fashioning in Irene Brin's journalistic writing, Maurizia Boscagli; Sibilla Alerama - writing a personal myth, Foria A. Bassanese; Antonietta Raphael - artist, woman, foreigner, Jew, wife, mother, muse and anti-Fascist, Emily Braun; Alba de Cespedes's "There's No Turning Back" - challenging the new woman's future, Carole C. Gallucci; reading, writing and rebellion - collectivity, specularity and sexuality in the Italian schoolgirl comedy, 1934-43, Jacqueline Reich.
