The Crisis-Woman: Body Politics and the Modern Woman in Fascist Italy by Natasha V. Chang

The Crisis-Woman: Body Politics and the Modern Woman in Fascist Italy

Toronto Italian Studies

Natasha V. Chang

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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 t...

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