Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/189jLUj Women and the Great War Femininity under Fire in Italy By: A. Belzer Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Print ISBN: 9780230100404, 0230100406 eText ISBN: 9780230113619, 0230113613 Copyright year: 2010 Format: PDF Available from $ 99.00 USD SKU 9780230113619 Drawing on both wartime discourse about women and the voices of individual women living at the Italian Front, Allison Belzer analyzes how women participated in the Great War and how it affected them. The Great War transformed women into purveyors and recipients of a new feminine ideal that emphasized their status as national citizens. Although Italian women did not gain the vote, they did encounter a less empowering form of female citizenship just after the war ended with Mussolini's Fascism. Because of the Great War, many women seized the opportunity to participate in a society that continued to recognize them as guardians of the nation.
