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Cover image for book Catholic Women's Movements in Liberal and Fascist Italy

Catholic Women's Movements in Liberal and Fascist Italy

By:H. Dawes
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137406330
eText ISBN:9781137406347
Edition:0
Copyright:2014
Format:Reflowable

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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.