{"product_id":"lost-wave-women-and-democracy-in-postwar-italy-9780199378234","title":"Lost Wave: Women and Democracy in Postwar Italy","description":"As Italy emerged from World War II, the first women entered the national government. The 45 women who became parliamentarians when Italian women were first entitled to vote in 1946 represented a lost wave of feminist action, argues Molly Tambor. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this work, Tambor reconstructs the role that these female politicians played in Italy's new democratic Republic. They proved critical in ensuring that the new Constitution formally guaranteed the equality of all citizens regardless of sex, translating the general constitutional guarantees into\u003cbr\u003edirect legislative rights and protections. They used a specific electoral and legislative strategy, constitutional rights feminism, to construct an image of the female citizen as a bulwark of democracy. Mining existing tropes of femininity such as the Resistance heroine, the working mother, the\u003cbr\u003esacrificial Catholic, and the mamma Italiana, they searched for social consensus for women's equality that could reach across religious, ideological, and gender divides. The political biographies of woman politicians are intertwined with the history of the laws they created and helped pass, \u003cbr\u003eincluding paid maternity leave, the closing of state-run brothels, and women's right to become judges. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWomen politicians navigated gendered political identity as they picked and chose among competing models of femininity in Cold War Italy. In so doing, \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Wave \u003c\/em\u003eshows, they forged a political legacy that affected the rights and opportunities of all Italian citizens.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Molly Tambor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/06\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.50w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199378234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2014 pg. 523\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMolly Tambor\u003c\/strong\u003e is Assistant Professor of History at Long Island University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40435095044211,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":145.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_ed432fcd-bbee-43f0-9157-2917b76d2472.jpg?v=1663076839","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/lost-wave-women-and-democracy-in-postwar-italy-9780199378234","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}