The eighteenth century – usually identified with national unification and Romanticism – was for Italian women the time of the first female associations strategically claiming rights as well as a period of hard struggles to modify gender stereotypes in order to transform women from objects into active subjects.
It was also the century of gender power relations codification both in political institutions and in the family. Family law indeed humiliated female freedom while economical inferiority and double morality (absolving men and making women feel guilty) made women easily subject to blackmail.
Fiorenza Taricone is the author of monographs and papers concerning themes such as associations in Italy in nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the evolution of civil and political rights, interventism and pacifism. She is lecturer of history of political thought at Cassino University, Italy.
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