The Politics of Everyday Life in Fascist Italy : Outside the State? /

This book explores the complex ways in which people lived and worked within the confines of Benito Mussolini s regime in Italy, variously embracing, appropriating, accommodating and avoiding the regime s incursions into everyday life. The contributions highlight the experiences of ordinary Italians...

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Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Group Author: Arthurs, Joshua, 1975; Ebner, Michael R., 1972; Ferris, Kate
Published: Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Italian and Italian American Studies
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58654-4
Summary: This book explores the complex ways in which people lived and worked within the confines of Benito Mussolini s regime in Italy, variously embracing, appropriating, accommodating and avoiding the regime s incursions into everyday life. The contributions highlight the experiences of ordinary Italians midwives and schoolchildren, colonists and soldiers over the course of the Fascist era, in settings ranging from the street to the farm, and from the kitchen to the police station. At the same time, this volume also provides a framework for understanding the Italian experience in relation to other
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(XII,240pages).
ISBN: 9781137586544
Index Number: DG11
CLC: K546.42
Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Origins -- 3. Masculinity -- 4. Coercion -- 5. Reproduction 6. Consumption -- 7. Borderlands -- 8. Empire -- 9. Memory -- 10. Conclusion - Troubling Coercion and Consent: Everydayness, Ideology, and Effect in German and Italian Fascism.