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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Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
Language: | English |
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Italian and Italian American studies
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230113619 |
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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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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230100404, 2010. |
Carrier Form: | 282 p. |
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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. |