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...will boss the chairwomen of Italy's 12,000 female fasci. The prime tangible duty of their 200,000 members is to help run 50,000 Maternita e Infanzia clinics and many a hospital, which the Government subsidizes. To the poor women who come to the clinics and hospitals the women Fascists pass on Italy's peculiar kind of "feminism." Politically aggressive in other countries, feminism in Italy is politically self-effacing, advertises the beauties of motherhood and domesticity. It advises women factory workers to quit their jobs if possible, all women to grow "healthfully buxom," "give strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Top Woman | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

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