The Crisis-Woman: Body Politics and the Modern Woman in Fascist Italy

‘This book should appeal to anyone interested in the fascist period, and not only to literary critics. Historians of Italy and of fashion, as well as feminist scholars, to name a few, will find much to learn in Chang’s engaging and well-written monograph.’

Cristina Mazzoni, Annali D’Italianistica vol 35:2016

“Chang has picked up on one of those fascinating phrases, ‘crisis-woman,’ which has circulated in the absence of any definition, much less research, captured its usage in the periodicals of the time, and pinned down practically all of its meanings to the fascist regime.” Victoria de Grazia, Moore Collegiate Professor of History, Columbia University

“The Crisis-Woman is a welcome and multi-layered picture of a subtle dynamic between power and resistance on the role of women under the fascist regime. It comes as an important contribution to the growing scholarship on Italian fascism.” Eugenia Paulicelli, Professor of Italian, Comparative Literature, and Women’s Studies, Queens College, City University of New York