1st Edition
Italian Fascism and the Female Body Sport, Submissive Women and Strong Mothers
By Gigliola Gori
Copyright 2004
251 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
252 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
251 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This is the first text to examine women and sport in Italy during the period 1861-1945. To qualify and quantify the impact of fascism on Italian Women's sport, the author first of all examines the pre-fascist period in terms of female physical culture. The text then describes how during the fascist era, women moved strictly within a framework designed by medicine and eugenics, religious and... Read more
Chapter 0 Preface; Chapter 1 Fascism as a Cult of Virility and the Duceas its Political Athlete; Chapter 2 Model Women and Physical Training before the Fascist Era; Chapter 3 Fascist Models of Femininity; Chapter 4 Sports Medicine and Female Athleticism under the Fascist Regime; Chapter 5 The Education System and the Fascist Youth Organisations; Chapter 6 Girls and Young Women at Health Resorts; Chapter 7 The Accademia Nazionale Femminile di Educazione Fisica; Chapter 8 Spare-Time Activities in the Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro; Chapter 9 Sportswomen’s Contests and Displays; Chapter 10 Fashion, Aesthetics and the ‘True Woman’; Chapter 11 Sportswomen of the Fascist Era; Chapter 12 Women’s Emancipation through Sport under Fascism and after;
Biography
Gigliola Gori
