Somewhere between Mussolini's stereotypes of woman as domestic model or degenerate intellectual lies the reality of feminist experience under the Italian Fascist state.
13 Fischer, Cinematernity, 4. 14 Christine Gledhill, ed., Home Is Where the Heart Is (London: BFI, 1987); Mary Ann Doane, The Desire to Desire: The Woman's Films of the 1940s (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987); Constance ...
In the Mother of Invention in their analyses of literature, painting, sculptures, film, and fashion, the contributors explore the politics of invention articulated by these women as they negotiated prevailing ideologies.
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Conclusion The multiplicity of " women " is nowhere more obvious than for the figure of the mother , who is always both mother and daughter . Marianne Hirsh For the fall of 2000 , Hèlène Cixous chose as the title for her internationally ...
Mothers of Invention: Women, Italian Fascism, and Culture