Mothers Of Invention: Women, Italian Facism, and Culture
Mothers Of Invention: Women, Italian Facism, and Culture
by Robin Pickering-Iazzi
University of Minnesota Press, 1995
eISBN: 978-0-8166-8669-8 | Cloth: 978-0-8166-2650-2 | Paper: 978-0-8166-2651-9
Library of Congress Classification HQ1638.M79 1995
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.40945
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Contents
- 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