Mothers Of Invention - Women, Italian Facism, and Culture (Paperback, New)

To Mussolini, she was either "donna-madre", the lauded domestic model, or "donna-crisi", intellectual, masculine, a degenerate type. But woman, as "Mothers of Invention" shows, was not a category so easily defined or contained by the Italian Fascist state. This volume is the first thorough investigation of culture produced by Italian women during 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. Essays on women's film spectatorship, on Anna Kuliscioff as the leading feminist in the Socialist party, on Teresa Labriola's concept of Fascist feminism, on futurism and on Irene Brin's reportage of female fashion and self-invention examine women in mass culture, political thought, and daily living.

General

Imprint:	University of Minnesota Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 1995
First published:	September 1995
Authors:	Robin Pickering-Iazzi
Dimensions:	229 x 149 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	304
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8166-2651-9
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Fascism & Nazism Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism
LSN:	0-8166-2651-0
Barcode:	9780816626519

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