Blackshirts: Women during the Fascist ventenio

The article is an examination of the status of women in Italy during the Fascist period, which was a period of deep regression regarding their rights. First we focused on the discrimination suffered by women in the legal, social and especially political field, with yet another denial of the right to vote. Then we tried to describe the status of women in the Fascist regime analyzing the way in which women was described in the press of the time, especially in female magazines, which had to help widespreading the ideal Fascism wanted to accomplish. Several newspapers were founded in this period, all very useful to understand what was the image of women in the printing of the Fascist era and then, by extension, in society itself. Finally it is shown how Fascism had ended up relegating women to the single role of wives and mothers, considering them less than men and thus placing them in a position of deep subordination. Furthermore, in order to better inculcate in them the principles of the regime, these were framed in various mass organizations, such as the female Fasci, through which to implement a strict control against all dissent