Works Cited

History Paper:

Bridenthal, Renate, et al. (eds.). Becoming Visible: Women in European History. NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

Corner, Paul. “Women in Fascist Italy: Changing Family Roles in the Transition from an Agricultural to an Industrial Society.”  European History Quarterly 1993: 51-68

De Grazia, Victoria. How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922-1945.  Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992.

DiCaprio, Lisa, and Merry E. Wiesner. Lives and Voices: Sources in European Women’s History.  Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000.

Passmore, Kevin, ed. Women, Gender and Fascism in Europe, 1919-45.  New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003.

Literature Paper:

Allen, Beverly, Muriel Kittel, and Keala Jane Jewell, eds., The Defiant Muse: Italian Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present. New York: Feminist Press, 1986.

Life Is Beautiful. Dir. Roberto Benigni. Writ. Vincenzo Cerami, Roberto Benigni. Prod. Gianluigi Braschi, Elda Ferri. Perf. Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano, Sergio
        Bini Bustric. USA and Italy: Miramax Films, 1998.

Pickering-Iazzi, Robin. Unspeakable Women: Selected Short Stories Written By Italian Women during Fascism.  New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1993.

"Poster for ONMI (Opera nazionale per la maternità ed infanzia) of Milan: 'Put your maternity and your offspring under ONMI's protection.'"; "Poster for the national ONMI, 1935"; "Poster for the national ONMI, 1937"; "Poster for the national ONMI, 1939"; "An American-style beauty: 'Will he come by, or won't he? It's time.'"; "Fecundity incarnate: rural beauty
holding rooster"; "Gino Boccasile's priapic " '900 girl" ; "Strapaese's nemesis: the crisis woman, 1931"; "Bourgeois mother with her firstborn girl, circa 1939"; "A working class mother at an ONMI clinic in Rho, late 1920s";  "A peasant mother with her first three children and elders in Emilia, 1930s"; "A demonstration of female handicrafts, early 1930s"; "Sicilian women doing menial labor"; "Assembly-line workers at the ICO medical equipment factory in Bologna"; "Migrant field laborers in Emilia, 1930s"; "The secretarial pool at the Perugina Candy Works, 1928"; "The company canteen at the Perugina Candy Works, 1928"; "Angiola Moretti (left) and Wanda Gorjux address fascist women, 1930"; "A fascist women's luncheon under the banner of the House of Savoy, Pavia, early 1930s"; "The ring ceremony, 1935"; "A soup kitchen for mothers at Turin, staffed by fascist patronesses, early 1930s"; "First gathering of rural housewives in Enna, Sicily, 1935.":
De Grazia, Victoria. How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922-1945.  Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992.