Women, Antifascism and Mussolini’s Italy

The Life of Marion Cave Rosselli

Isabelle Richet (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

348 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-15538-1 (ISBN)

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Marion Cave Rosselli is remembered as the ‘perfect companion’ of the Italian Antifascist leader Carlo Rosselli, assassinated in Paris in June 1937. But little is known about the young English student fired with revolutionary enthusiasm who moved to Florence in 1919, witnessed the violent march of fascism to power and thereafter became a resolute adversary of the Mussolini dictatorship. Based on a wealth of little-used private and public archives, this biography retraces her journey from a modest home on the outskirts of London to the first underground Antifascist opposition in Italy, from the prison island of Lipari to exile in Paris and the United States. It reveals the social, cultural and existential factors which underpinned her unflinching political engagement alongside her husband. It also highlights the many challenges faced by Antifascist women within a highly patriarchal movement by bringing to life the figure of a woman who challenged the traditional division of labour within the family and struggled to carve a political role for herself. Reconstructing Marion Cave Rosselli’s experience in relation to the multiple political, social and cultural worlds she moved in, this book broadens our understanding of the Antifascist movement and offers a richly detailed portrait of a time full of hopes, anxieties and disappointments.

Isabelle Richet is Professor Emeritus at Universite´ Paris Diderot- Paris 7. She received a PhD in History from the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. In recent years, her research has focused on exile and expatriation, especially on British and American expatriates in Italy. She has published several articles in Italian and English on Anglo-American expatriates and the Mussolini regime and has contributed to the volume Rethinking Antifascism. History, Memory and Politics, 1922 to the Present, edited by Hugo Garcia et al. (2016).

List of Plates
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. A British Education
2. Witnessing the Rise of Fascism in Florence (September 1919 – January 1923)
3. Becoming Biancafiore (1923 – 24)
4. The Best of Times, The Worst of Times (1924 – 26)
5. From Milan to Savona: The Last Stand in Italy (July 1926 – September 1927)
6. Welcome to the ‘Escape Club’: Lipari (January 1928 – July 1929)
7. New Beginnings: The Heroic Years (1929 – 31)
8. Building a Life in Exile (1932 – 34)
9. The Personal is Political (1935 – 36)
10. Death in Normandy (Spring 1937)
11. Hope against Hope (July 1937 – July 1940)
12. So Far Away from Italy (USA – July 1940 – July 1943)
13. Hope is Reborn (USA – July 1943 – June 1946)
14. Coming Home (July 1946 – October 1949)
Abbreviations
Notes
Sources and Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.09.2019
Zusatzinfo	15 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 216 mm
Gewicht	417 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-350-15538-1 / 1350155381
ISBN-13	978-1-350-15538-1 / 9781350155381
Zustand	Neuware