Böcker av Victoria De Grazia

The most significant conquest of the 20th century may have been the triumph of American consumer society over Europe's bourgeois civilization. It is this campaign that unfolds in de Grazia's account of how the American standard of living defeated the European way of life and achieved the global cultural hegemony.

This is a study of the dopolavoro or fascist leisure-time organization, the largest of the regime's mass institutions. Cutting across economic and regional lines, embracing industrial workers, pesants, and salaried employees, this new arena of public life contributed to fascism's ability to remain in power throughout the depression years.

Focuses on how the fascist dictatorship defined the place of women in modern Italy and how women experienced the Duce's rule. This work offers a detailed characterization of Italian women's ambiguous and ambivalent experience of a regime that promised modernity, yet denied women emancipation.