Books by Victoria De Grazia

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.