STORIA DELLE DONNE IN ETA' CONTEMPORANEA

Integrated educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2013/2014

Optional/Mandatory:

Optional

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in EDUCATIONAL AND PHILOSOPHY

Moduls:

STORIA D'ITALIA FRA LE DUE GUERRE

6 credits
STORIA DELLE DONNE NELL'ITALIA REPUBBLICANA

6 credits

Credits:

Programme Year:

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

Modulo 1: A basic knowledge of national and international history of Twentieth-century and of main issues of contemporary world.

Modulo 2: A basic knowledge of national and international history of Twentieth-century and of main issues of contemporary world.

AF code:

A000136

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Modulo 1: Final oral exam

Modulo 2: Final oral exam

Teaching period

Single Annual Cycle

Objectives

Modulo 1: The major aim of the course is to achieve a suitable knowledge and understanding of the historical events related to the two world wars through an analysis of social, cultural and political processes of contemporary world. As a result of the course, students are expected to improve their learning skills about the main historical issues of modern times and to increase their ability to point out proper connections between past and present.

Modulo 2: The major aim of the course is to achieve a suitable knowledge and understanding of the historical events related to the two world wars through an analysis of social, cultural and political processes of contemporary world. As a result of the course, students are expected to improve their learning skills about the main historical issues of modern times and to increase their ability to point out proper connections between past and present.

Contents

Moduli 1: The main purpose of this first module is focus the following topics: The Great War as “total” war; Crisis of the old european order; Nationalist ideologies; The Bolshevik Revolution in 1917; Italy between the two world wars; The crisis of italian liberal State; The fascist ideology; The fascist dictatorship.

Modulo 2: The main purpose of this third module is focus the following topics: The “Gruppi di Difesa della donna” during the italian Resistance; Women’s right of suffrage in Italy; The “Unione Donne italiane” and the “Centro Italiano femminile”: PCI, DC and charitable politics in the Fifties; The economic “boom” and the birth of collective’s movements in the Sixties; Politics, culture, society: Italy in the Seventies and the world crisis; Women’s movement and feminism: the main groups.

Recommended Bibliography

Modulo 1: Primary Readings
1) BARBAGALLO F., Storia contemporanea. Dal 1815 a oggi, Roma, Carocci, 2008, pp.117-182 (chapters 10-14 and chap. 15 until p. 182)
2) LUSSANA F., L’Italia dalla Grande Guerra alla Liberazione (1915-1945), Roma, Carocci, 2009, pp. 1-163 (chapters 1-3 and chap. 4, until p. 163)
NON ATTENDANT STUDENTS are requested to read the following essay:
- LUSSANA, F., Memoria e memorie nel dibattito storiografico, in “Studi Storici”, 2000, n. 4, pp. 1047-1081

Modulo 2:2) LUSSANA F., 1944-1945 Togliatti, la “via italiana”, le donne, in Culture politiche e dimensioni del femminile nell’Italia del ‘900, edited by G. Bonacchi e C. Dau Novelli, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2010, pp. 137-167
3) LUSSANA F., Il movimento femminista in Italia. Esperienze, storie, memorie, Roma, Carocci, 2012, pp. 1-112 (chapters 1 and 2)

NON ATTENDANT STUDENTS are requested to read the following chapter:
Dall’oblò della lavatrice: percorsi di domesticità tra modernità e privacy, in E. ASQUER, La rivoluzione candida. Storia sociale della lavatrice in Italia (1945-1970), Carocci, Roma 2007, pp. 39-72

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Modulo 1: ectures will be intermingled by collective discussions about specific topics of the course; tutorials will be introduced by the screening of movies or documentaries about the main subject of the course.

Modulo 2: Lectures will be intermingled by collective discussions about specific topics of the course; tutorials will be introduced by the screening of movies or documentaries about the main subject of the course.

Contacts/More Information

Modulo 1: - Readiness to offer individual assistance also in a foreign language (english, french) to incoming students;
- Availability of supporting material and bibliographic references also in a foreign language:
Mack Smith, Denis, Modern Italy. A political history, New Haven, London, Yale University press, 1997 (chapters to agree with teacher);
- Readiness to accept examination of incoming students also in a foreign language (english, spanish)

Modulo 2: Readiness to offer individual assistance also in a foreign language (english spanish) to incoming students;
Availability of supporting material and bibliographic references also in a foreign language:
P. Willson, Women in Twentieth-century Italy, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
(chapters to agree with teacher);
Readiness to accept examination of incoming students also in a foreign language (english, spanish).

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