The Lost Wave
Women and Democracy in Postwar Italy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19984050 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Molly Tambor (0000-0001-7970-6919, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | 256 |
| Publication date | 2014-06-06 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The Lost Wave (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199378234.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4254735900 |
| Open Library | OL27555963M |
| ISBN | 9780199378234 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
The first women entered national government in Italy in 1946 and represented a “lost wave” of feminist action. They used a specific electoral and legislative strategy, “constitutional rights feminism,” to construct an image of the female citizen as a bulwark of democracy. Mining existing tropes of femininity such as the Resistance heroine, the working mother, the sacrificial Catholic, and the “mamma Italiana, ” they searched for social consensus for women’s equality that could reach across religious, ideological, and gender divides. The political biographies of woman politicians intertwine throughout the book with the legislative history of the women’s rights laws they created and helped to pass: a Communist who passed the first law guaranteeing paid maternity leave in 1950, a Socialist whose law closed state-run brothels in 1958, and a Christian Democrat who passed the 1963 law guaranteeing women’s right to become judges. Women politicians navigated gendered political identity as they picked and chose among competing models of femininity in Cold War Italy. In so doing, they not only forged a political legacy that affected the rights and opportunities of all Italian women but also helped to foster the rebuilding of Italy as a modern, democratic state
Communism · Democracy · Femininity · Feminism · Ideology · Legislature · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Europe · History · Italy · Political activity · Politicians · politics and government · Women · Women and democracy · Women politicians
Cultures of Protest and Industrial Conflict in Italy since 1945
In her own voice
The origins of the Polizia Femminile , 1948–1961
Rebranding the Republic
The new face of Italian prostitution in the aftermath of the Merlin Law
From Communist Internationalism to Human Rights
The Witness Is Passing By”
Fordism’s Underside
Il Telaio nel Sottoscala
A law made by Italian mothers for Italian mothers? Women politicians and the 1950 law on maternity rights
Vanishing Act
Group Portrait
Mothers’ Milk and Mothers’ Time
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,3 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |