Women In Italian Fascism

Italian fascism is reference to the role the Italian women play in everyday life. Italian women are looked upon as floating signifiers because Ernesto Luclau, who is an author, said that the people within this time did not believe that women had any importance. Many people during the fascism era had the concept of “contradictory consciousness”. In this case it meant that the fascism state wanted women to do more because of modern times, but they were stuck in the old ways (). During the post-war period in Italy so many things were going wrong for the country. Because of all the misery that the war caused the New Man and Woman were created within the Italian society. There were so many contradictions in the fascist ideology and because of …show more content…
He demanded that women take care of the children and the household, and did not work elsewhere. Fascist see gender roles from a strong point of view because they believe the nature of women should be dictated and not from outside sources such as media. The only role of the women was to be a mother and nothing more nor less. Since the birth rate in Italy after the war was very disappointing Mussolini insisted that this be the women’s one and only role. While the man’s role was to be the leader of the household, and the bread winner. So fascists indorsed a paternalistic hierarchy of the family. According to Mussolini real men are family men, and “he who is not a father is not a man” …show more content…
The fascist state controlled how the women raised their children so they would become great warriors, the household money, and what place the women was in within a working place. Fascist advocates would fight to make the private life a public aspect as much as they could. Theses advocated saw women as “unnatural, masculinized, diseased, and empty figures” (). The state tried to intervene multiple times to create a new outlook on the women in their favor. They wanted the women to be a housewife and serve her family, but at the same time wanted her to be eager to do what the state tells them to do (). The way women were represented in cartoons were unreasonable and contradicted everything the fascist state