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Im Juni 1926 war Rom Schauplatz eines spektakulären gesellschaftlichen Ereignisses. Gefeiert wurde eine »faschistische Hochzeit«, Trauzeuge Mussolini inklusive. Vor den Altar traten Lilliana Weinman, gefeierte amerikanische Opernsängerin aus einer jüdischen Industriellenfamilie, und Attilio Teruzzi, hochdekorierter Kriegsveteran, Teilnehmer beim Marsch auf Rom, mitleidloser Anführer der Schwarzhemden und Archetyp des »neuen starken Mannes«. Aber bald schon fühlte sich der virile Gatte von der Unabhängigkeit seiner Frau in der Ehre verletzt und forderte die Scheidung - nur dachten...

"Italy has been made; now we need to make the Italians," goes a familiar Italian saying. Mussolini was the first head of state to include women in this mandate. How the fascist dictatorship defined the place of women in modern Italy and how women experienced the Duce's rule are the subjects of Victoria de Grazia's new work. De Grazia draws on an array of sources--memoirs and novels, the images, songs, and events of mass culture, as well as government statistics and archival reports. She offers a broad yet detailed characterization of Italian women's ambiguous and ambivalent experience...

A portrait of the dopolavoro, or leisure-time organization, the largest of the regime's mass institutions.

This volume brings together the most innovative historical work on the conjoined themes of gender and consumption. In thirteen pioneering essays, some of the most important voices in the field consider how Western societies think about and use goods, how goods shape female, as well as male, identities, how labor in the family came to be divided between a male breadwinner and a female consumer, and how fashion and cosmetics shape women's notions of themselves and the society in which they live. Together these essays represent the state of the art in research and writing about the development...