Women and the Great War

ALLISON BELZER is an Assistant Professor of History at Armstrong Atlantic State University, USA.

• Women and War The Great War PART I: FEMININITY AT HOME Becoming Italian: Models of Femininity from 1900-1918 The Other Army: Women's Wartime Home Front Opportunities and the Debate over Female Mobilization PART II: FEMININITY IN THE WAR ZONE When the Home Front is the War Front: Contextualizing Women's War Stories of the Italian Front Adventurers: Women Seeking out the Front Lines Civilians: Women Trapped in the War Zone PART III: THE POSTWAR ERA Postwar Femininity and the Liberal State: the Donna Nuova Italian Fascism and the Donna Fascista

"This excellent study offers extremely valuable insights on gender role changes in Italy between the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century up to the Fascist era. Building upon a strong theoretical framework, the study enriches the field through its inclusion of unpublished women s diaries and papers from Italian and international archives, and published diaries, journals, literary texts, and short biographies of women writers, offering new perspectives on gender role changes during war that apply to women throughout Europe. Recommended." - CHOICE