Unspeakable Women: Selected Short Stories Written by Italian Women During Fascism

Despite the misogynist ideology of Italian Fascism and contrary to claims of most postwar literary historians, in the 1920s and 1930s, women authors enjoyed wide publication and critical recognition in Italy. These 16 stories, for example, all appeared first on the cultural pages of important Italian newspapers. Three are by the 1926 Nobel Prize winner for literature, Grazia Deledda. Publishers Weekly praised the volume for show(ing) women’s experiences of an oppressive regime from the inside.