Women and the Great War Femininity under Fire in Italy

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This book examines women's experiences along the Italian Front during World War I to understand how the war affected cultural ideas about femininity.

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List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Women and War	p. 1
Prologue: The Great War	p. 13
Femininity at Home
Becoming Italian: Models of Femininity from 1900-1918	p. 23
The Other Army: Women's Wartime Home Front Opportunities and the Debate over Female Mobilization	p. 45
Illustrations	p. 67
Femininity in the War Zone
When the Home Front Is the War Front: Contextualizing Women's War Stories of the Italian Front	p. 77
Adventurers: Women Seeking out the Front Lines	p. 93
Civilians: Women Trapped in the War Zone	p. 123
Femininity in the Postwar Era
Postwar Femininity and the Liberal State: The Donna Nuova	p. 159
Italian Fascism and the Donna Fascista	p. 177
Appendix: Notable Women Writers and Diarists	p. 189
Notes	p. 203
Selected Bibliography	p. 241
Index	p. 261
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