Women and Fascism - Hardcover

Durham, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415122791 ISBN 13: 9780415122795

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

This seminal book challenges the common assumption that fascism is a misogynist movement which has tended to exclude women. Using examples from Germany, Italy and France, Durham analyses the rise of women in fascist organizations across Europe from the early twenties to the present.
Unusually, however, the author focuses on British fascism and in doing so he offers valuable new perspectives on fascist attitudes to women. Offering interesting examples of women training in armed combat, and more generally as voters and members of fascist organizations, he highlights women's relationship to fascist policies on birth rate, abortion and eugenics.

About this title

Synopsis:

Despite its male predominance and popular perception as a misogynist movement, fascism has, on several occasions, proved able to win large numbers of women both as voters and members. Martin Durham addresses this paradox by dispelling the myth that fascism uniformly upheld anti-feminist policies and wanted women firmly kept in the home breeding the master race. Women and Fascism analyses the rise of women in fascist organisations across Europe from the early twenties to the present, with examples from Germany, Italy and France. Unusually, however, the author focuses on British fascism and in doing so he offers valuable new perspectives on fascist attitudes to women both as voters and members and highlights women's relationship to fascist policies on birth rate, abortion and eugenics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0415122791
• ISBN 13: 9780415122795
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208