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This 10 page report discusses the role of women in Fascist Italy in the decades prior to World War II. Women under Italian fascism had two major roles, loyalty to Benito Mussolini and loyalty to husband and family. Mussolini was committed to an ambitious modernization program: draining swamps, developing hydroelectricity and improving the railways. His ideas of modernization did not apply to the role of women in Italian society. Women, according to Mussolini, were baby producers and wives. The extreme nature of Fascism, as well as its clearly self-serving agenda created an environment in which the women of Italy were unlikely to have the opportunity for emancipation at any level. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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anti-liberal, and certainly anti-women. The conditions after World War I allowed a small group of Fascists to rise to power through violence, the use and violation of the democratic institutions,
relations with the monarch and the Catholic Church, and intense indoctrination and training. Women under Italian Fascism had two major roles, loyalty to Mussolini and loyalty to husband and
family. When Mussolini became the head of the Italian government in 1922, he spoke of restoring Italian power and prestige, reviving the economy, increasing productivity, ending harmful government controls
and furthering law and order. Mussolini was committed to an ambitious modernization program: draining swamps, developing hydroelectricity and improving the railways.
His ideas of modernization did not apply to the role of women in Italian society. Women, according to Mussolini, were baby producers and wives. Population growth was a sign
of national strength, thus Italy need to prove its "strength." They were even discouraged from riding horses or wearing pants. The fascist regime pursued a policy of virtually total state
paternalism toward women. Mussolini and his government officials also believed that women should not work outside of their homes and in the early 1920s were immediately dismissed from employment
of all types, a contributing factor in the larger economic depression of the 1930s. Fascism in Italy sought to reduce the role of women to a secondary (or even lesser)
position but failed to consider the social changes brought about by the move away from agriculture and the agricultural-oriented lifestyle toward urbanized industrialization on family economics (Corner 51). Increasing industrialization
between the World Wars resulted in increase in the earning potential and standard of living for individual Italian families that fascist rhetoric and legislation could not overcome. Italian women continued
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