The Politics of Everyday Life in Fascist Italy: Outside the State? (Italian and Italian American Studies)

This Book Explores The Complex Ways In Which People Lived And Worked Within The Confines Of Benito Mussolini's Regime In Italy, Variously Embracing, Appropriating, Accommodating And Avoiding The Regime's Incursions Into Everyday Life. The Contributions Highlight The Experiences Of Ordinary Italians -- Midwives And Schoolchildren, Colonists And Soldiers -- Over The Course Of The Fascist Era, In Settings Ranging From The Street To The Farm, And From The Kitchen To The Police Station. At The Same Time, This Volume Also Provides A Framework For Understanding The Italian Experience In Relation To Other Totalitarian Dictatorships In Twentieth-century Europe And Beyond. "Acknowledgments"--"Contents" -- "Editors" -- "Contributors" -- "Chapter 1: Introduction" -- "What Is Everyday Life?" -- "Conclusion" -- "Notes" -- "Chapter 2: Origins" -- "The â#x80;#x9C;Holy Rogueâ#x80;#x9D;" -- "Performance and Terror" -- "Two Sides of the Same Violent Coin: Cruel Jokes and Suicide" -- "Fears and Anxieties" -- "Notes" -- "Chapter 3: Masculinity" -- "War, Postwar, and Squadrismo" -- "Love, Sexuality, and Marriage" -- "Masculinity, the Fascination of the Duce, and Post-Fascism" -- "Notes" -- "Chapter 4: Coercion" -- "Everyday Coercion: The 1930s" -- "Notes" -- "Chapter 5: Reproduction" -- "A Terrible Penalty" -- "â#x80;#x9C;Everyone Knew and Nobody Talkedâ#x80;#x9D;" -- "Ancient Witches?" -- "â#x80;#x9C;Pulling Down Stationary Bloodâ#x80;#x9D; [Tirar giÃ1 il sangue fermo]" -- "Conclusions" -- "Notes" -- "Chapter 6: Consumption" -- "Mobilizing Shopkeepers and Consumers â#x80;#x9C;at the Battle Outpostsâ#x80;#x9D;" -- "Consumer Practices During the â#x80;#x9C;Economic Siegeâ#x80;#x9D;" -- "Everyday Spaces of Consumption" -- "Notes" -- "Chapter 7: Borderlands" -- "Setting the Stage: Ethnonationalism in the Borderland" -- "An Allogeneic Population?" -- "Educational Methods" -- "Church and State" -- "Language and Naming" -- "Attending the Preschools" -- "Social Benefits, Health, and Welfare" -- "Conclusion" -- "Notes" -- "Chapter 8: Empire" -- "Roman Legionaries or British Sahibs?" -- "Aura and Alltag in Fascist Colonial Settlement" -- "Aspiration and Perspiration" -- "Individuals, Families, Communities" -- "Italians and Libyansâ#x80;#x94;â#x80;#x9C;The Same, in Their Own Waysâ#x80;#x9D;" -- "Conclusion" -- "Notes" -- "Chapter 9: Memory" -- "25 July 1943: An Expected Surprise" -- "Damnatio Memoriae" -- "Punishment and Rehabilitation" -- "Conclusion" -- "Notes" -- "Chapter 10: Conclusion: Troubling Coercion and Consentâ#x80;#x94;Everydayness, Ideology, and Effect in German and Italian Fascism" -- "Notes." Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-17 Origins....Pages 19-49 Masculinity....Pages 51-75 Coercion....Pages 77-98 Reproduction....Pages 99-122 Consumption....Pages 123-149 Borderlands....Pages 151-178 Empire....Pages 179-204 Memory....Pages 205-232 Conclusion: Troubling Coercion and Consent—Everydayness, Ideology, and Effect in German and Italian Fascism....Pages 233-255 Back Matter....Pages 257-265