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In fascist Italy between the wars, a woman was an exemplary wife and mother or else. The "or else" is the focus of this study. Reading works by women of the period, the author shows how they refuted stereotypes that were conferred on them by the fascist regime.

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Unseduced mothers - female subjectivities and the transgression of fascistized femininity; pathologies of autobiography and out-law discourses; aeroromance - reconfiguring femininity, fantasy and fascism; continental drift - the politics of realist aesthetics and the novel; generatrices of poiesis - registers of women's poetry, modernism and the avant-garde.

Politics Of The Visible Writing Women Culture

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      Publisher: MP - University Of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 8/1/1997 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780816629237, 978-0816629237
      ISBN10: 0816629234

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In fascist Italy between the wars, a woman was an exemplary wife and mother or else. The "or else" is the focus of this study. Reading works by women of the period, the author shows how they refuted stereotypes that were conferred on them by the fascist regime.

      Table of Contents
      Unseduced mothers - female subjectivities and the transgression of fascistized femininity; pathologies of autobiography and out-law discourses; aeroromance - reconfiguring femininity, fantasy and fascism; continental drift - the politics of realist aesthetics and the novel; generatrices of poiesis - registers of women's poetry, modernism and the avant-garde.

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