Catholic Women's Movements in Liberal and Fascist Italy

Catholic Women's Movements in Liberal and Fascist Italy PDF Author: H. Dawes
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137406348
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Book Description
In the early 1900s the Catholic Church appealed, for the first time in its history, directly to women to reassert its religious, political and social relevance in Italian society. This book examines how the highly successful conservative Catholic women's movements that followed, and how they mobilized women against secular feminism.