Italian Fascism and the Female Body: Sport, Submissive Women and Strong Mothers

ISBN-13: 9780714653556 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 251 str.

Gigliola Gori

Opis

In this text, the first to examine women and sport in Italy during the period 1861-1945, the role women's engagement in sporting activity had upon gender emancipation is explored in the context of the pre-fascist, fascist and post-war eras.

Spis treści

Chapter 0 Preface; Chapter 1 Fascism as a Cult of Virility and the Duceas its Political Athlete; Chapter 2 Model Women and Physical Training before the Fascist Era; Chapter 3 Fascist Models of Femininity; Chapter 4 Sports Medicine and Female Athleticism under the Fascist Regime; Chapter 5 The Education System and the Fascist Youth Organisations; Chapter 6 Girls and Young Women at Health Resorts; Chapter 7 The Accademia Nazionale Femminile di Educazione Fisica; Chapter 8 Spare-Time Activities in the Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro; Chapter 9 Sportswomen’s Contests and Displays; Chapter 10 Fashion, Aesthetics and the ‘True Woman’; Chapter 11 Sportswomen of the Fascist Era; Chapter 12 Women’s Emancipation through Sport under Fascism and after;

O autorze

Gigliola Gori