UID:
almafu_9959233908302883
Format:
1 online resource (236 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-43648-3
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1-134-43649-1
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1-280-05388-7
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0-203-45168-6
Content:
This study is the first published history of the Massaie Rurali, the Fascist Party's section for peasant women, which, with three million members by 1943, became one of the largest of the regime's mass mobilizing organizations.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of plates; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Glossary of Italian terms and organizations; Map of Italy; Introduction; Peasant women, the rural world and the Fasci Femminili; Ladies in the field: women's farm education, the Unione delle Massaie della Campagna and Domus Rustica; 'An Extraordinary Thing': the National Fascist Federation of Massaie Rurali; 'Going to the People': the Massaie Rurali section of the Fasci Femminili; 'Into Every Farmhouse and Cottage': propaganda in print; 'Women with a Hundred Arms': the training programme
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'At the Gates of Rome': the Sant'Alessio Training CollegeA Dopolavoro for rural women? radio, film and folklore; Recruiting for the nation: Why did three million join the Massaie Rurali?; Epilogue; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-203-46080-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-29170-4
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9780203451687
