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Mothers Of Invention: Women, Italian Facism, and Culture
Robin Pickering-Iazzi
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Paperback. Editor(s): Pickering-Iazzi, Robin. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; JFC; JFFK; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 410.
The first in-depth look at culture produced by women in Fascist Italy.
Mothers of Invention was first published in 1995. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
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, ... Read moreContributors: Rosalia Colombo Ascari, Sweet Briar College; Fiora A. Bassanese, U of Massachusetts, Boston; Maurizia Boscagli, U of California, Santa Barbara; Emily Braun, Hunter College, CUNY; Carole C. Gallucci; Mariolina Graziosi, U of Milan; Clara Orban, Depaul U; Lucia Re, UCLA; Jacqueline Reich, Trinity College; and Barbara Spackman, New York University. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816626519
SKU
V9780816626519
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About Robin Pickering-Iazzi
Robin Pickering-Iazzi is professor of Italian at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
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