Emancipation or liberation?: women's associations and the Italian movement.

From: The Historian | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: Pojmann, Wendy | Copyright information

ENGLISH-LANGUAGE SCHOLARSHIP on Italian feminism and its relationship to its European and American counterparts has blossomed in the past decades. (1) The unique case of Italy, with its often tumultuous twentieth-century history, provides an exciting focal point for studies of women's movements throughout the world. When the fascist government of Benito Mussolini fell, and a democratic government was established in June 1944, Italian women could not vote, divorce was not recognized...

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