The crisis-woman : body politics and the modern woman in fascist Italy / Natasha V. Chang.
The crisis-woman : body politics and the modern woman in fascist Italy / Natasha V. Chang.
The crisis-woman : body politics and the modern woman in fascist Italy / Natasha V. Chang.
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Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
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G 2015/2346
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English
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Physical content
x, 166 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: Who Is the Crisis-Woman? -- The Donna-crisi and the Fashion World: From Revolution to Regulatory Ideal -- Scientific Discourse and the Making of the Donna-crisi -- Esci Fuiori, mattacchiona!: Satirical Representations of the Donna-crisi -- Ideologies and Economies of Crisis -- Conlcusi...
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Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
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Ontario
Date Published
[2015]
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Summary
Femininity in the form of the donna-crisi, or "crisis-woman," was a fixture of fascist propaganda in the early 1930s. A uniquely Italian representation of the modern woman, she was cosmopolitan, dangerously thin, and childless, the antithesis of the fascist feminine ideal - the flashpoint for a range of anxieties that included everything from the c...
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The crisis-woman : body politics and the modern woman in fascist Italy / Natasha V. Chang.
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Body politics and the modern woman in fascist Italy.
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Toronto Italian studies.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-161) and index.
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x2x4
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©2015.
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G 2015/2346
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74VK7a8ma3Jd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK7a8ma3Jd
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ISBN
1442649674 (bound)
9781442649675 (bound)
DDC
305.42094509043
MMS ID
991022827019702626
