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Women and the Great War: Femininity under Fire in Italy (Italian and Italian American Studies)
Allison Scardino Belzer
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Description for Women and the Great War: Femininity under Fire in Italy (Italian and Italian American Studies)
Hardcover. This book examines women's experiences along the Italian Front during World War I to understand how the war affected cultural ideas about femininity. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJF; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418. Femininity Under Fire in Italy. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. 282 pages, Illustrations, map, ports. This book examines women's experiences along the Italian Front during World War I to understand how the war affected cultural ideas about femininity. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJF; HBTB; JFSJ1. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 19. Weight: 418.
Drawing on both wartime discourse about women and the voices of individual women living at the Italian Front, Allison Belzer analyzes how women participated in the Great War and how it affected them. The Great War transformed women into purveyors and recipients of a new feminine ideal that emphasized their status as national citizens. Although Italian women did not gain the vote, they did encounter a less empowering form of female citizenship just after the war ended with Mussolini's Fascism. Because of the Great War, many women seized the opportunity to participate in a society that continued to recognize them ... Read more
Drawing on both wartime discourse about women and the voices of individual women living at the Italian Front, Allison Belzer analyzes how women participated in the Great War and how it affected them. The Great War transformed women into purveyors and recipients of a new feminine ideal that emphasized their status as national citizens. Although Italian women did not gain the vote, they did encounter a less empowering form of female citizenship just after the war ended with Mussolini's Fascism. Because of the Great War, many women seized the opportunity to participate in a society that continued to recognize them ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
Series
Italian and Italian American Studies
Number of Pages
271
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230100404
SKU
V9780230100404
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About Allison Scardino Belzer
ALLISON BELZER is an Assistant Professor of History at Armstrong Atlantic State University, USA.
Reviews for Women and the Great War: Femininity under Fire in Italy (Italian and Italian American Studies)
"This excellent study offers extremely valuable insights on gender role changes in Italy between the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century up to the Fascist era. Building upon a strong theoretical framework, the study enriches the field through its inclusion of unpublished women s diaries and papers from Italian and international archives, and published diaries, journals, ... Read more