Italian Women and International Cold War Politics, 1944-1968 by Wendy Pojmann

Italian Women and International Cold War Politics, 1944-1968 by Wendy Pojmann

A groundbreaking account of the two largest autonomous womens associations in Italy during the early Cold Warthe UDI and the CIFand how they developed an active Italian and global agenda for the advancement of womens rights

"Italian Women and International Cold War Politics, 1944-1968 identifies a real gap in scholarship on international women's movements on the period between World War Two and the Second Wave feminist movement of the 1970s This book address that gap offering an engaging and well documented account of two Italian women's associations, the UDI and the CIFPojmann offers both new and original material, and develops critical understanding of an important and generally overlooked stage in women's organizations." -- -Helen LaVille University of Birmingham "The history of two important Italian women's organizations, the Unione Donne Italiane (UDI) and the Catholic Centro Italiano Femminile (CIF), set in the context of the Cold War era, 1945-68, is a valuable contribution to the scholarship of women's organizations and national and international politics. " -- -Karen Garner SUNY Empire State College "Pojmann's work is an excellent addition to literature on women's movements, postwar Italy, and the complexity of Cold War politics." -H-Net Reviews "The book should find an audience among scholars who will value access to new Italian evidence, as well as in undergraduate classrooms, where students of women's history and students of contemporary European history will both have a reading either of the whole book or of specific sections to provide strong coverage of the Cold War years in their syllabi. The real value here is, as I stated at the beginning of this review, that English-language readers are now being enabled to join the conversation about gendering the Cold War and about the significance of Italy as a laboratory of politics; and Pojmann's book makes a very useful contribution to that project." -H-Diplo

Wendy Pojmann is Associate Professor of modern European history at Siena College in Loudonville, New York. She is the author of Immigrant Women and Feminism in Italy and editor of Migration and Activism in Europe since 1945.

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ISBN 13	9780823245604
ISBN 10	0823245608
Title	Italian Women and International Cold War Politics, 1944-1968
Author	Wendy Pojmann
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Fordham University Press
Year published	2013-02-11
Number of pages	248
Prizes	Commended for Choice: Outstanding Academic Title 2014
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