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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/869266857 Title: The lost wave : women and democracy in postwar Italy Author: Molly Tambor Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014] ISBN/ISSN: 9780199378234 0199378231 OCLC:869266857

  
  

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The lost wave : women and democracy in postwar Italy

Author:	Molly Tambor
Publisher:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	As Italy emerged from World War II, the first women entered the national government. The 45 women who became parliamentarians when Italian women were first entitled to vote in 1946 represented a "lost wave" of feminist action, argues the author. In this work, she reconstructs the role that these female politicians played in Italy's new democratic Republic. They proved critical in ensuring that the new Constitution formally guaranteed the equality of all citizens regardless of sex, translating the general constitutional guarantees into direct legislative rights and protections. They used a specific electoral and legislative strategy, "constitutional rights feminism," to construct an image of the female citizen as a bulwark of democracy.  Read more...
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Subjects	Women -- Political activity -- Italy -- History. Feminism -- Italy -- History. Women and democracy -- Italy -- History. View all subjects
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