'Una coscienza coloniale' : forging imperial women in the Fascist Colonial Institute of Bologna

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dc.contributor.authorDRIVER, Lewis Ewan
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-16T16:03:48Z
dc.date.available2024-05-16T16:03:48Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.descriptionPublished online: 14 May 2024en
dc.description.abstractThis paper studies the Fascist Colonial Institute (ICF) of Bologna as a local space in which fascist ideals of empire, gender and class collided and were reproduced. Founded shortly before Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia in 1935, the ICF served to transmit colonial consciousness to the Italian people, and, most especially, to young middle-class women. Analysis of the local Bolognese ICF, however, reveals a more complex reality. Courses designed to create fascist imperialists out of middle-class women and forge a ruling settler class for the colonies evidence that the institute used the empire as a tool to shore up gender norms in fascist Italy. The author argues that an unintended outcome of these courses was that the ICF became a space of limited freedom and of social and professional mobility for its young women participants. In addition to learning transgressive skills, these women took advantage of their affiliation with the institute, using it as a springboard for further employment opportunities. The paper is based on a rich collection of sources from the Bolognese branch of the ICF, held in the Museo Civico del Risorgimento di Bologna in the Archivio dell’Istituto Fascista dell’Africa Italiana – Sezione di Bologna.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was related to a funded PhD project at the European University Institute. It was carried out during research missions funded by the institute.en
dc.embargo.terms2025-11-14en
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dc.identifier.citationEuropean review of history, 2024, OnlineFirsten
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13507486.2024.2331512
dc.identifier.issn1350-7486
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/76867
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dc.title'Una coscienza coloniale' : forging imperial women in the Fascist Colonial Institute of Bolognaen
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