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Mothers Of Invention : Women, Italian Facism, and Culture, Paperback / softback Book

Mothers Of Invention : Women, Italian Facism, and Culture Paperback / softback

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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.

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