The Crisis-Woman: Body Politics and the Modern Woman in Fascist Italy
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The crisis-woman was deployed as a stand in for the degeneracy of modern society and, particularly, its increasingly androgynous gender roles that posed a threat to the binary gender system and heteronormative reproductive futurity.
“The crisis-woman was deployed as a stand in for the degeneracy of modern society and, particularly, its increasingly androgynous gender roles that posed a threat to the binary gender system and heteronormative reproductive futurity.”
From Introduction (2022) · cites this paper as Chang (2015)
In Fascist Italy, a coherent figure-the crisis-woman-emerged that served to transform widely consumed liberal feminist narratives of the Euro-American 'new woman' into fear-mongering devices aimed at making women conform to state-sanctioned femininities deemed natural, chiefly that of the fascist housewife and mother.
“As Chang (2015) explains, in Fascist Italy in particular, a coherent figure-the crisis-woman-emerged that served to transform widely consumed liberal feminist narratives of the Euro-American”
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- Authors
- Chang, N. V.
- Corresponding author
- Chang, Natasha V.
- Venue
- University of Toronto Press eBooks
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Published
- 2015-12-24
- OpenAlex
- W4300228643
- Cited by
- 10
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 0.67
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- University of Toronto Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Canadian Identity and History
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Literature: history, themes, analysis
- Keywords
- crisis, women
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