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The Crisis-Woman
2015
Overview
Femininity in the form of the donna-crisi , or “crisis-woman,” was a fixture of fascist propaganda in the early 1930s. A uniquely Italian representation of the modern woman, she was cosmopolitan, dangerously thin, and childless, the antithesis of the fascist feminine ideal – the flashpoint for a range of anxieties that included everything from the changing social roles of urban women to the slippage of stable racial boundaries between the Italian nation and its colonies.
Using a rich assortment of scientific, medical, and popular literature, Natasha V. Chang’s The Crisis-Woman examines the donna-crisi ’s position within the gendered body politics of fascist Italy. Challenging analyses of the era which treat modern and transgressive women as points of resistance to fascist power, Chang argues that the crisis-woman was an object of negativity within a gendered narrative of fascist modernity that pitted a sterile and decadent modernity against a healthy and fertile fascist one.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press,University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing
Subject
/ Europe
/ Fascism
/ Fascism -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
/ Fascism and women -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
/ HISTORY
/ Italy
/ Italy -- Social conditions -- 1918-1945
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
/ Women
/ Women -- Italy -- Social conditions -- 20th century
/ Women in popular culture -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
ISBN
9781442649675, 1442649674, 1442621192, 1442621206, 9781442621190, 9781442621206
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