Women and the Great War Femininity under fire in Italy /

This book examines women's experiences along the Italian Front during World War I to understand how the war affected cultural ideas about femininity.

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Main Authors: Belzer, Allison Scardino.
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Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: Italian and Italian American studies
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230113619
Summary: This book examines women's experiences along the Italian Front during World War I to understand how the war affected cultural ideas about femininity.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230100404, 2010.
Carrier Form: 282 p.
ISBN: 9780230100404
9780230113619 :
0230113613 :
CLC: K01
Contents: Women and War * The Great War * Part I: Femininity at Home * Becoming Italian: Models of Femininity from 1900-1918 * The Other Army: Women's Wartime Home Front Opportunities and the Debate over Female Mobilization * Part II: Femininity in the War Zone * When the Home Front is the War Front: Contextualizing Women's War Stories of the Italian Front * Adventurers: Women Seeking out the Front Lines * Civilians: Women Trapped in the War Zone * Part III: The Postwar Era * Postwar Femininity and the Liberal State: the Donna Nuova * Italian Fascism and the Donna Fascista.