What is it about?
In France like in Italy women's food protests during World War II were part of the anti-Fascist struggle. The article discusses the reasons and the dynamics of such demonstrations shedding light on a practice that in Italy was as frequent as in France, but which, unlike the French counterpart, has fallen. between the cracks of history.
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Why is it important?
Through a comparative approach it sheds light on an aspect of women's Resistance that has been largely neglected.
Perspectives
Writing this article with Prof Paula Schwartz, super expert of food protests and French Resistance, was a privilege and a pleasure.
Patrizia Sambuco
University of London
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This page is a summary of: The discourse of anti-Fascism and food protest in underground women’s publications, Journal of Romance Studies, September 2024, Liverpool University Press,
DOI: 10.3828/jrs.2024.15.
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