Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Contents List of Tables vi Acknowledgements vii List of Abbreviations viii Introduction 1 1 The Italian State, the Catholic Church and Women 8 2 The Cultural, Political and Ideological Context of Femminismo Cristiano 44 3 Femminismo Cristiano 64 4 The Radicalization of Femminismo Cristiano in Elisa Salerno 113 5 The Conservative Catholic Women’s Movements 151 Conclusion 215 Notes 219 Select Bibliography 265 Index 268 v Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Introduction In the early 1900s Italy was a battlefield of diverse intellectual, cultural and political forces, with different ideologies competing for hegemony. This was the context in which the Catholic Church, for the first time in its history, appealed directly to women for help in defending Catholic values in society. As a result, various Catholic women’s associations came into being, with the aim of assisting the Church in its mission by disseminating religious propaganda and alleviating serious social problems. By this time, Italy had already experienced the emergence of the first secular feminist movements, which had their origins in the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, the intellectual currents of the nineteenth century and socialist doctrine. Two important national feminist organizations, the Federazione romana and the Milan-based Unione femminile, had come into existence in 1899, with the objective of pursuing philanthropic and women’s rights issues.1 Relatively little is known outside Italy about the rise and development of early Italian women’s movements, either Catholic or secular. Yet Italy was in the forefront of writing on women’s issues. In fact, the seminal English work The Subjection of Women (1869), by the philosopher and women’s rights advocate John Stuart Mill, was preceded by two Italian publications on the woman question. The first, Woman and Science (1861), was written by the Neapolitan politician Salvatore Morelli (1824–1880),2 while the author of the second, Woman and Her Social Relationships (1864), was a feisty young Lombard woman, Anna Maria Mozzoni (1837–1920).3 Published in Italian, these books failed to gain attention abroad. Nevertheless, in their own country, not only Mozzoni but also several other middle-class women became famous – or infamous – for their feminist demands and campaigns. This group of early activists includes Maria Montessori (1870–1952), better 1 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 2 Catholic Women’s Movements in Liberal and Fascist Italy remembered for her achievements as an educator, as well as the flamboyant Sibilla Aleramo (1876–1960), who embraced feminism not only in her writings but also in her personal life, being the quintessential embodiment of the adventurous and self-reliant donna nuova. Another notable figure was the fascinating Russian-born socialist Anna Kuliscioff (1854–1925), who through her intellect and personal charisma left an indelible mark on early Italian feminism. Many others made a reputation as indefatigable fighters for women’s suffrage; the most notable among them was Ersilia Majno Bronzini (1859–1933), also known as the director of a rehabilitation home for “fallen” girls and for girls “at risk”, the Asilo Mariuccia, which was the first of its kind in Europe.4 While secular women’s movements have received wide attention, women’s organizations within the Catholic system in Italy during the Liberal and Fascist periods have not generated the same level of interest. Yet here, too, one comes across women of great determination, dedication and talent, such as the young school teacher Adelaide Coari (1881–1966). In a period when women were not expected to travel unaccompanied, let alone assume any kind of public role, Coari would not hesitate to hire a coach to go to late-night meetings to unionize women or to organize factory strikes.5 Another Catholic leader, Armida Barelli (1882–1952), made a brilliant career as an organizer of young Catholic women and girls. No less memorable are Countess Elena da Persico (1869–1948), the editor of the first Catholic women’s journal, L’Azione muliebre, and Princess Cristina Giustiniani Bandini (1866–1959), the founder of the Unione fra le donne cattoliche d’Italia, for the vital role they played in the conservative Catholic women’s movements. The poetess Luisa Anzoletti (1863–1925) and the feminist journalist Antonietta Giacomelli (1857–1949), though less well known, were in their time significant participants in feminist debate. So was the belligerent Vicenza feminist Elisa Salerno (1873–1957), who, in seeking to ameliorate women’s condition and status, confronted the Church on various social and doctrinal issues. The earliest Catholic women’s movement, femminismo cristiano, was promoted by progressive members of the clergy who recognized the vital role which women could play in maintaining the Catholic presence in Italian society after Unification. Until then, the involvement of Catholic women in Church-sponsored activities had typically been of a charitable nature. They were now called on to operate in an entirely new environment, to deal with various religious, social and class issues which had emerged in the wake of rapid industrialization, urbanization and migration. Often in rivalry with socialist and other leftist agitators, they would Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Introduction 3 be faced with problems stemming from abject working conditions, long working hours, low rates of pay and social dislocations. Simultaneously, the Italian Catholic women’s movement had to take cognizance of developments in the wider world. With the campaign for women’s emancipation gaining momentum in Europe and the United States, the question of women’s civil and political rights became topical also in Italy. There, too, men and women had to take a stand on the question of women’s suffrage, which was being debated with regard to both national and local elections. As a consequence, the Catholic women’s movement had to come to terms with the clash between the patriarchal religious values underpinning Catholic attitudes and the claims for equal rights which were requisite for women’s entry into modern society. Among Italian Catholic women, women’s suffrage and women’s rights in general would prove deeply divisive. In fact, it is not possible to speak of a single, continuous Catholic women’s movement, since the earliest form, femminismo cristiano, differed in its goals from the subsequent, more conservative movements, the Unione fra le donne cattoliche d’Italia and the Gioventù femminile cattolica italiana, precisely on these issues. This discontinuity in orientation resulted from the firm line adopted by the ecclesiastical hierarchy against women’s rights while following the dual policy of conditioning women to the acceptance of traditional Catholic values and mobilizing them in the defence of the Church. Moreover, the fragmentation of the Catholic women’s movement was the inevitable outcome also of the differences in their members’ social status and political alignment. The exponents of femminismo cristiano came from humble social backgrounds and often personally shared the concerns of their working-class constituency, while the Unione donne and the Gioventù femminile were led by women from the aristocracy or the upper middle class, and necessarily reflected the social, political and cultural attitudes of these classes on a range of issues. Since the concept of the family and the role of woman as mother and educator were central to Catholic teachings, the Church could not countenance developments alienating women from what it perceived to be their primary function. For this reason, the Church leaders, including the popes Pius X, Benedict XV and Pius XI, took a close interest in the Catholic women’s movements, sanctioning and controlling them in order to hold feminism at bay. This did not, however, predicate a uniform approach to the woman question throughout the clergy, whose responses ranged from outright rejection of feminism to forming an integral part of the Catholic feminist movement. Antipathy towards liberal and socialist ideologies was the common starting point for the Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 4 Catholic Women’s Movements in Liberal and Fascist Italy clergy and Catholic feminists, although the latter soon alienated, in particular, the upper echelons of the Catholic hierarchy through their openness to secular feminism. Inseparably linked to official attitudes is the question of how appropriate were the precepts of Catholic doctrine in defining women’s status and role in the rapidly modernizing environment of early twentieth-century Italy, and how such precepts affected women’s self-perception and social aspirations. Alone the strategy of enlisting women’s help in re-Christianizing society meant that the Church had to rethink the roles it assigned to women, both lay and religious. As for the Catholic women’s movements, the manner in which they pitched their appeal to women from diverse social and cultural backgrounds, and the manner in which they handled potentially divisive gender and class-related issues is worth looking into, as is also their role in the wider national political context. Because of their proximity to the Church hierarchy, the question arises whether the women leaders were true “protagonists” setting their own agendas or whether they simply took their cue from the clergy. Furthermore, what were the reasons for the tremendous success of the Catholic women’s organizations in the Fascist period, when other non-Fascist women’s movements were no longer allowed to function? While a number of literary contributions exist on prominent members of the Catholic women’s movements, such as Adelaide Coari, Elena da Persico, Elisa Salerno and Armida Barelli, there are few comprehensive works on the movements themselves. The earliest scholarly publication on femminismo cristiano is Paola Gaiotti de Biase’s pioneering work Le origini del movimento cattolico femminile (1963), which shows the young Catholic feminists at the centre of the intricate relationship between the Church and the modern world, conscious of the demands of their social apostolate as they try to reconcile their faith with yearnings for emancipation.6 Francesco Maria Cecchini views femminismo cristiano as an integral part of the early Christian democratic movement, and its suppression as the inevitable outcome of the disbandment of the parent movement.7 Lucetta Scaraffia perceives the post-Unification relationship between the Church and Catholic women as an alliance of two losers – an alliance seemingly offering an opportunity for the reconquest of secular society. Propelled into action by modern clerics, Catholic feminists were simultaneously restricted in their role by their obligatory obedience to the Church. The new model of womanhood that they came to represent was therefore not an opponent of the male power of the Church hierarchy but rather its expression and instrument.8 Isabella Pera compares the attitudes of two women leaders, Adelaide Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Introduction 5 Coari and Elena da Persico, towards the religious authority,9 and elucidates the material role which the young priest Carlo Grugni played in the evolution of femminismo cristiano.10 Studies of the conservative Catholic women’s associations throw light on their popularity, proliferation and longevity in terms of their ability to satisfy women’s desire for companionship, solidarity, shared religious experience and public roles in welfare and social organization, as well as their proximity to the Church hierarchy, their inclusive organization concept, their readiness to cooperate with Fascist institutions and their novel methods of recruitment. Paola Di Cori attributes the success of the conservative women’s movements to the intrinsic solidarity among women, based on a common awareness of the oppression of their sex, and to the skilful manner in which the women’s sentiments were manipulated by their leaders.11 Michela De Giorgio and Paola Di Cori find that, in addition to their willingness to cater to all categories of women, the Catholic women’s movements prospered due to the constant interest expressed by the Vatican in nurturing and supporting them and to the enormous commitment shown by the professors of the Università cattolica and the group around Armida Barelli.12 According to Cecilia Dau Novelli, the Unione donne was more widely accepted than the contemporary feminist movements because it was better attuned to the mindset of the average housewife. It played a major positive role in bringing women out of their social isolation and their world of fantasies by introducing them to the realm of rationality, judgement and study.13 In Cattoliche durante il fascismo, focusing on the Veneto region during Fascism and the early post-World War II period, Liviana Gazzetta demonstrates the growing cooperation of the Catholic women’s organizations with the Fascist welfare network, which Catholic women leaders regarded as a concrete opportunity to mould institutions in a Christian spirit.14 In the case of Gioventù femminile, Luciano Caimi speaks of its “apostolic protagonism”15 and Lucetta Scaraffia of its “militant apostolate” and “strikingly original initiatives” 16 to explain the phenomenal growth of this movement. By comparison, apart from the already identified topics, the present study shows the instrumentality of the women’s movements for the Catholic Church hierarchy – a topic briefly touched on by Scaraffia – in ensuring the Church’s social, political and religious presence in Italian society amid controversies with the Liberal and Fascist states and leftwing political elements, all of which the Church perceived as adversaries on political and ideological grounds. Thus, Catholic women became ardent paladins on the Church’s crusades against the Liberal State, most Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 6 Catholic Women’s Movements in Liberal and Fascist Italy notably against the legalization of divorce. On another front their organizations fought socialism, so that frequently the principal motive for Catholic women’s organizations to set up unions and patronages was to pre-empt socialist initiatives in unionizing female labour, while the very reason for the founding of the Gioventù femminile was to prevent the spread of socialism among young women. Rivalries between the Fascists and the Catholics over the recruitment of Italian youth into their respective organizations – with the demonstrable success of the Gioventù femminile in this regard – led in 1931 to a serious conflict between the Vatican and the Fascist regime. There is yet another level at which the instrumentality of the women’s organizations was manifest. This involved using Catholic women, through their associations and through appeals to their faith and religious sensibilities, to undermine the advocacy of secular feminist organizations and thus to oppose measures intended to bring about equal rights in marriage, the workplace and society. After all, the very raison d’être of founding the Unione donne was to mobilize women against feminism. One also has to bear in mind that, as soon as early Catholic feminists ceased to be compliant instruments of the ecclesiastical hierarchy, their movement was suppressed. In the long run, the Church’s pursuit of disenfranchisement of women denied them the opportunity of developing a sense of political awareness and discernment, and led to their willing cooperation with the Fascist regime. The book is thematically arranged into five chapters, and within each chapter the narrative is largely chronological, although overviews of particular topics are included. Relying mostly on secondary sources, the first two chapters set the contemporary context. Chapter 1 outlines the political, social, economic and juridical environment, first in Liberal and Fascist Italy in general, and then more specifically with regard to women, while Chapter 2 focuses on the cultural, political and ideological elements conducive to the emergence, development and disintegration of Catholic feminism. The remaining three chapters mostly draw on material from primary sources, such as the correspondence and published works by the personalities discussed, papal encyclicals and articles in contemporary periodicals, especially those produced by women themselves. Chapter 3 follows the evolution of Catholic feminism from the early Christian democratic movement, highlighting the impetus given to it by two women’s periodicals, L’Azione muliebre and Pensiero e azione, and exploring the reasons for its suppression. Also discussed is the Christian democratic leader Romolo Murri’s approach to the woman question as well as the role he envisaged for women Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Introduction 7 in his political movement. Chapter 4 examines the radicalization of femminismo cristiano in Elisa Salerno’s work, concentrating on her journalism, her doctrinal studies and her relations with the Catholic women’s movement and with the ecclesiastical and secular authorities. Chapter 5 examines the origin, development and programme of the conservative Catholic women’s movements, the reasons for their widespread appeal and their capacity for mobilizing Catholic women on a mission to re-Christianize society, ultimately against the backdrop of Fascist Italy. In essence, the intention of this study is to show the fundamental role which the Catholic women’s movements played in Italian society from the early 1900s to the mid-1930s. Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 1 The Italian State, the Catholic Church and Women When Italy underwent immense social, economic and political transformations in the early part of the twentieth century, the material rewards of the modernization process were unevenly distributed, just as the unification of Italy previously had brought very few benefits, if any, to the majority of the population. The one group which, in particular, saw no improvement to its condition was women, as they continued to be discriminated against by limited access to education and employment, unequal treatment under the law and disenfranchisement. The Catholic Church, the only truly unifying element of the country at the time of Unification, had become a bitter enemy of the Italian State after losing its temporal power. In these circumstances, women and their organizations proved crucial to the Church in dealing with its perceived adversaries: the State, the political left and modern society. To appreciate fully the social and political role which the Catholic women’s movements played in this period, it is necessary to examine their contemporary context. With this objective, Section I explores the broad setting of post-Unification Italy and the troubled path of Church–State relations, and Section II looks more specifically at women’s position in Italian society from the Risorgimento to World War II. Section I: The Italian State and the Catholic Church The Italian State Modern Italy has its roots in the nineteenth-century Risorgimento, which aimed at liberating Italy from foreign domination and unifying the various political entities on the Italian peninsula under one government. Unification was preceded by decades of either overt or clandestine revolutionary activity against the Austrians in the north, the Bourbon 8 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 The Italian State, the Catholic Church and Women 9 dynasty in the south and the administrative system of the Papal States. It involved three wars of independence against Austria (in 1848–1849, 1859 and 1866) under the political and military leadership of Piedmont, and the expedition of Giuseppe Garibaldi and his “Thousand” to Sicily in 1860. A united kingdom, headed by the Piedmontese monarch, was formally established in March 1861. The process of Unification continued with the acquisition of the Veneto in 1866 and Rome in 1870, and with further territorial additions, including Alto-Adige, Trentino, Trieste and Istria, after World War I. The loss of the pope’s temporal power through the annexation of Rome and the Papal States created among the higher echelons of the Church an aura of almost visceral animosity towards the State. None of the heroes of the Risorgimento – neither its theoretical champion, Giuseppe Mazzini, nor its revolutionary activist, Giuseppe Garibaldi, nor its political tactician, Count Camillo Benso di Cavour – envisaged the Catholic Church as playing an important part in a unified Italy. The principal forces behind the thrust for Unification had been the members of the modernizing agricultural and industrial bourgeoisie and aristocracy in the north, who saw in the existence of trade barriers between the states on the peninsula a hindrance to further economic development.1 This new ruling élite of unified Italy failed to address, through the subsequent Liberal governments, the inherent social and economic problems of the country. Its administration was hampered by the absence of a common language, and communication was rendered difficult by the high illiteracy rate. Although schooling was made compulsory, the law was not strictly enforced, so illiteracy and dialects persisted to underline class and regional differences.2 For the most part, the country was economically backward, possessing relatively few natural resources, and for the majority of people the only route to escape from poverty, or to improve their station in life, was by way of emigration. New infrastructure and industrial projects tended to benefit northerners while, with the removal of internal tariffs, the southern markets were suddenly flooded with imports, to the detriment of local industry. For many southerners, crippled by new heavy taxes, the Risorgimento represented another form of colonization rather than deliverance from foreign domination. Owing to the lack of resources and foresight, the central government failed to commit sufficient funds for the maintenance of law and order in the south, which in turn led to brigandage and the emergence of the criminal mafia organization. The Risorgimento would not bring emancipation to Italian women, who, on the contrary, “in Lombardy, Venetia, and Tuscany Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 10 Catholic Women’s Movements in Liberal and Fascist Italy lost political rights and in some instances private authority previously exercised”.3 Nineteenth-century liberalism and Catholicism embodied different ideologies, and these differences played no small part in the evolution of Church–State relations after Unification. As a political doctrine, liberalism emphasizes the importance of limited government, while as a philosophy of life it calls for individual freedom, imagination and selffulfilment. The notions of liberalism include the idea of the State’s positive role in ensuring all citizens equal protection under the law, equal opportunity to exercise the privileges of citizenship and to participate fully in national life, regardless of race, religion or sex. While nineteenth-century theorists regarded the advance of democracy as inevitable, and even desirable, they at the same time dreaded that the extension of democratic rights to all classes of people would lead to the tyranny of the masses and the trampling on the rights of the minorities.4 Yet in practice the opposite proved to be the case: “liberal” principles continued to be applied selectively by the liberal governments, excluding wide sections of the population from their covenant, as was the case in Italy with the sole recognition of men as “citizens” and with the treatment of women as minors under their family’s or husband’s tutelage. The interests of the propertied classes were fiercely protected, which allowed the concentration of economic wealth in the hands of a relatively small number of citizens, while leaving unresolved, for instance, the problem of the landless peasantry in southern Italy. Full participation in national life was out of the question for most people, male or female, under a system which kept them disenfranchised. The nineteenth- and early twentieth-century papacies opposed liberalism because they saw it as having negative effects on society for religious, ethical, political and economic reasons. Such views are elaborated by, for instance, “Antonietta” in the Catholic women’s magazine L’Azione muliebre in March 1901. As regards religion, the harmful repercussions included the separation of State from Church and the secularization of schools, the family and society. Ethically, the objectionable characteristics of liberalism included the independence of reason, the laws and government, and morals without God. Politically, liberalism elevated popular sovereignty to a divine role, since it viewed social power as deriving from the people, to be exercised in its name. Economically, the principle of laissez-faire had legitimized the prevalence of ever-increasing competition, monopoly, usury and social injustice. Liberalism had not only given rise to capitalism but had also led to the enslavement of the proletariat. Moreover, with the disappearance of the Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Index Note: The letters ‘n’ following locators refer to notes. abortion, 186, 208, 209 accentramento nel decentramento, 160, 213 Adam, 54, 119, 121 adiutorium simile sibi, 69, 122 Adua, battle of, 11 adultery, 26, 28, 80, 123 Adveniat regnum tuum, 110 Aeterni patris, see encyclicals, papal Agnes, St, 190, 195 Agostini, Delia, 195 agriculture, 12, 36, 37–8, 39, 60, 170, 208 Albertario, Davide, 46 alcoholism, 180 Aleramo, Sibilla, 2, 62, 207, 231n, 263n Alleanza nazionale (National Alliance), 169 Almanacco della Lega democratica nazionale, 109 Almanacco-manuale democratico cristiano, 109 altercentrism, 205 Altobelli, Argentina, 238n amicizie cristiane (Christian friendships), 44 Andolfato, Elisabetta, 144 Andolfato, Giulia, 114 Antici-Mattei, Carlotta, 165 anti-feminism, 53, 104, 106, 112, 113, 116, 117, 118–19, 125, 127, 128, 134, 142, 149, 150, 175–6, 182, 201, 204, 205, 215, 216, 217 Anzoletti, Luisa, 2, 61, 72, 80, 94, 100, 139 Apostolate of the Cradle, 209 Arcanum, see encyclicals, papal Ardens, Lucilla, see Salerno, Elisa Arena, 124 Arena, Giuseppe, 118 Aristotle, 54, 55, 119 Asilo Mariuccia, 2, 59 Associazione cattolica italiana per la difesa della libertà della Chiesa in Italia (Italian Catholic Defence Association for the Freedom of the Church), 45 Associazione nazionale delle madri e vedove dei caduti (National Association of Mothers and Widows of the Fallen), 208 Associazione nazionale italiana di dottoresse in medicina e chirurgia (Italian National Association of Women Doctors in Medicine and Surgery), 133 Associazione nazionale per la donna (National Women’s Association), 176 Associazione nazionale professioniste, artiste, laureate (National Association of Women Professionals, Artists and Graduates), 58 Atkin, Nicholas, 53 Augustine, St, 54, 55, 120 Austria, 8, 9, 147 civil code of, 25 Austria-Hungary, 164 Averri, P., 105 see also Murri, Romolo Avvenire d’Italia (L’), 116 Azione muliebre (L’), 2, 6, 71–86, 87, 91, 93, 97, 98, 100, 103, 105, 123, 136, 157, 158, 171, 172, 176, 215, 236n, 252n, 258n editorial office of, 83–4 regulations of, 84–6 268 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Index bachelor tax, 208 Baldo, Maria, 71–2, 76, 78, 82–5, 136, 236n see also Costanza Balilla, 23, 211 Barelli, Armida, 2, 4, 5, 187–90, 191, 192, 194, 196, 197, 200, 202, 203, 207, 210, 211, 213, 216, 259n, 264n Baronchelli Grosson, Paola, 163 Batiffol, Pierre, 102 Bebel, August, 59, 102–3, 201 Beccari, Gualberta Alaide, 24 Belgioiso, Cristina, 41 Belzer, Allison Scardino, 163–4, 204–5 Benedettini Alferazzi, Paola, 207 Benedict XV (1914–22), 3, 15, 18, 54, 116–17, 144, 149, 162, 164, 165, 166, 167, 172, 178, 183, 185, 188, 189, 190, 203, 258n Benincori, Giuseppe, 51 Berenini, Agostino, 26 Berico (Il), 100, 114, 115, 116, 141, 143 Bersellini Bellini, Jole, 59 Bianchi Cagliesi, Vincenzo, 104, 159, 165 Bible (the), 23, 119, 121, 146 Biederlack, R.P., 120, 142 Biennio rosso (Red Biennium), 22 birth control, 61, 186 Bisi Albini, Sofia, 61 Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna, 62 Bollettino dell’Unione femminile cattolica italiana, 143, 172, 173, 183, 186, 196 Bollettino dell’Unione fra le donne cattoliche d’Italia, 183 Bollettino d’organizzazione dell’Unione femminile cattolica italiana, 171, 183, 196, 210 Bollettino ecclesiastico (Vicenza), 146 bolshevism, 133, 138, 174, 189, 210, 212 Boniface VIII, 65 Bonomelli, Geremia, 102, 145 Borciani, Alberto, 26 Borghese, Isabella, 182 Børresen, Kari Elisabeth, 54 Boschetti, Elisa, 97 269 Bosworth, R.J.B., 222n Bourbon dynasty, 8–9 bread riots, 46, 72, 227n Britain, 164 Brogi, Bruno, 109 Bruno, Giordano, 183, 257n Büchner, Felicita, 98, 99, 139 Buonaiuti, Ernesto, 222n Buttafuoco, Annarita, 61 Caimi, Luciano, 5, 196 Calabria, 72, 158, 194 Cantono, Alessandro, 104, 107, 177 Canuti, Giovanna, 161, 164, 184, 199 Caporetto, battle of, 147 Castelbarco Albani della Somalia, Princess, 94, 238n Castel Gandolfo, 16 Castenetto, Dora, 159 Casti connubii, see encyclicals, papal Catania, 72 catechism competitions on, 162, 198 copy provision of, 198, 261n in religious practice, 161, 201 in Salerno’s doctrinal criticism, 124, 145–6 teaching of, 67, 72, 161–2, 168, 174 Catherine, of Siena, St, 129, 161, 190, 245n Catholic Action, 20–1, 48, 51, 169, 170, 179, 183, 185, 190, 191, 201, 211, 212 confrontation with Fascists, 168–9 constitutions of, 166–7, 168, 170 Giunta centrale of, 167, 169, 183, 211 sezioni professionali of, 169 see also Catholic laity Catholic Church, 1–5, 9, 117, 149, 169 and Fascism, 21–3, 203–4 and women, 185–7 Catholic clergy, 2, 3, 4, 15, 16, 19, 47, 48, 50, 53, 63, 65, 66, 67, 69, 71, 88, 107, 110, 111, 112, 115, 117, 124, 147, 148, 150, 159, 181, 203, 214, 215, 216, 225n, 227n, 242n Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 270 Index Catholic dogma on women, 54–6, 63, 65, 113, 118–23, 124, 147, 149, 150, 175, 185–7, 216 ordination, 55, 122 Catholic Electoral Union, see Unione elettorale cattolica italiana Catholicism, 10, 14, 15, 45, 56, 75, 103, 104, 175, 187, 192, 203, 210–11, 216, 218 social, 49, 103 Catholic laity, 16, 20–1, 44–52, 107, 112, 117, 139, 141, 152, 166, 170 see also Catholic Action; Christian democracy; Opera dei congressi e dei comitati cattolici in Italia Catholic trade unions, 19, 49, 97, 115, 132–3 see also Fascist regime; leghe; mixed unions Catholic Women’s Congress, First, 176–7 Catholic youth organizations, 45, 168, 169, 183, 191–2, 211 see also Catholic Action Cavallanti, S.A., 76, 100 Cavour, Camillo Benso di, 9, 15, 29, 30 Cecchini, Francesco Maria, 4, 103, 110 Cenacolo di Lentate, 73 Cerutti, Luigi, 48 chambers of commerce, 97 chaplains of work, 73 charity, 47, 48, 49, 54, 59, 62, 67, 77, 78, 92, 98, 108, 133, 161, 195, 213 see also welfare children’s employment, 13, 19, 31, 38, 40, 51–2, 60, 96, 97, 131, 182, 184 Christian democracy, 4, 6, 20, 22, 47–52, 53, 54, 64, 69–70, 73, 74, 78, 80–3, 87, 103, 104, 105, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 114, 135, 145, 149, 152, 177, 178, 215, 216, 233n see also Catholic Action; Catholic laity; Murri, Romolo; Opera dei congressi e dei comitati cattolici in Italia; Sturzo, Luigi; Toniolo, Giuseppe Church-State relations, 5, 6, 10, 14–18, 21–3, 42, 151, 168, 173–4, 185, 191, 203–4, 210, 211 see also Fascist regime; Liberal State Cimini, Antonietta, 100 Cimino, Folliero de Luna, Aurelia, 24 cinema, 180 Circolo femminile di Milano (Milan Women’s Circle), 93 Circolo universitario femminile cattolico (Catholic University Women’s Circle), 168 Circolo verde (Green Circle), 154, 155 Cisotto, Gianni A., 138, 250n Civiltà cattolica (La), 153, 157 Clerical-Moderates, 20, 21, 48, 103, 183 Coari, Adelaide, 2, 4, 5, 72–3, 74, 76, 78–9, 82–90, 93–8, 100–3, 110–12, 116, 140, 151–5, 216, 217, 233n, 236n, 239n, 240n, 247n, 251n, 262n Cocco Ortu, Francesco, 26, 27 co-education, 107, 128 Colombo, Adele, 74, 76, 234n Comitato italiano per la protezione della giovane (Milan), see Patronato per la protezione della giovane operaia Comitato nazionale per il voto alla donna (National Committee for Women’s Suffrage), 59 communism, 14, 187 Confederazione delle corporazioni fasciste (Confederation of Fascist Corporations), 134 Confederazione italiana dei lavoratori (Confederation of Italian Workers), 179 Congregazione delle Figlie missionarie dell’Immacolata (Congregation of the Missionary Daughters of the Immaculate), 180 Congregazione del Santo ufficio (Congregation of the Holy Office), 147 congregazioni di carità (congregations of charity), 97 Consiglio nazionale delle donne italiane (National Council of Italian Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Index Women), 58, 94, 99, 135, 166, 175–6 Consiglio superiore della pubblica istruzione (Board of Public Education), 211 Consiglio superiore del lavoro (Board of Work), 97, 238n Consorzio di emigrazione (Emigration Consortium), 180 Conti Odorisio, Ginevra, 24, 59 Convegno femminile (Milan), 76, 94–100, 111, 140, 153, 176, 216, 238n convent schools, 31, 32, 57, 65, 127 convents, see women religious Corbetta, Pierina, 74, 76, 234n Cordelia, 61 Corrierino, 171 Cortini, G.F., 107 Cosenza, 72 Costanza, 75–6, 77, 234n see also Baldo, Maria Cotonificio Rossi, 130, 131 Council of Trent, 15, 65 Crawley Boevey, Matéo, 188 Crispi, Francesco, 11, 29 Critica sociale, 49, 237n Cultura sociale, 49, 104–8, 111, 112, 241n, 242n Cunsolo, Ronald S., 21 Curci, Carlo Maria, 47–8 Cyrenaica, 11 D’Alessandro, Dr, 148, 250n Dalla Torre, Giuseppe, 254n Dalla Vecchia, Giacomo, 118, 146 Dalmazzo, Fanny, 182 Dante, 171, 255n da Persico, Elena, 2, 4, 5, 71, 80–1, 84–6, 93, 94, 98, 100, 136–7, 139, 141–2, 153, 155–9, 184, 238n, 247n, 248n, 251n, 252n da Trobaso, Antonio Bosio, 71, 88 Dau Novelli, Cecilia, 5, 155, 158, 160–1, 170, 251n DeCrane, Susanne M., 54 De Gasperi, Alcide, 42 de Giorgi, Filippo, 83, 84 De Giorgio, Michela, 5, 186 271 De Grazia, Victoria, 33 De Lai, Gaetano, 129 Della Chiesa, Giacomo, see Benedict XV Della Croce di Doiola, Bianca, 177 de Manchi, Antonio, 117 De Micheli, Riccardo, 155 Depretis, Agostino, 41 de Ruggiero, Guido, 15 Di Cori, Paola, 5, 162, 170, 186 Difesa (La), 100 Difesa di Venezia (La), 71 Divini Redemptoris, see encyclicals, papal Divino afflante spiritu, see encyclicals, papal divorce, 6, 17, 18, 23, 26–7, 80, 83, 101, 174, 218 campaigns against, 47, 79, 80, 174 see also family; family law Domani d’Italia (Il), 50, 86–7, 111, 233n, 234n Donaldoni, Leone, 100 Donna (La) (Bologna), 24 Donna (La) (Milan), 71, 74, 233n donna brava, 204–5 Donna del popolo (La), 71 Donna e il lavoro (La), 116–17, 118, 124, 132, 133, 141, 142–3, 144, 146, 149, 172 donna elettrice, 218 donna fascista, 205 donna italiana, 204–5 donna nuova, 2, 62, 205 Dotti, Angiolina, 74, 88, 216 double standards, 99, 123, 180 dress standards, 171–3 Duce, see Mussolini, Benito Duchesne, Louis, 102 early Christian democracy, see Christian democracy ecclesiastical assistants, 73, 74, 75, 76, 83, 84, 85, 88, 97, 100, 145, 146, 159, 165, 177, 190–1, 238n economic development, 9, 12 educandati, see convent schools Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 272 Index education, 32–3, 47, 60, 66, 92, 98 religious, 23, 55, 75, 76, 77, 80, 91, 145, 157, 161–2, 173–4, 175, 180, 189, 239–40n education, women’s, 8, 23, 24, 30–3, 41, 43, 57, 60, 62, 89, 90, 95, 106–8, 109, 125–9, 161, 213 Fascist licei, 33, 128 higher, 32–3, 70, 128 physical, 126, 198 secondary, 31–3, 79, 107 elections, local (“administrative”), 3, 27, 81 elections, national (“political”), 3, 13, 16–17, 20, 21, 47, 81, 148, 211 participation in, 13, 17 see also intransigence; non expedit; suffrage Elena, Queen, 101 emigration, 9, 19, 29, 66, 99, 180–1, 257n see also migration, internal encyclicals, papal Aeterni patris (1879), 53 Arcanum (1880), 26, 186 Casti connubii (1930),186 Divini Redemptoris (1937), 187 Divino afflante spiritu (1943), 54 Fermo proposito (Il) (1905), 51, 160 Fin dalla prima nostra (1903), 82 Graves de communi re (1901), 48, 50, 82 Inscrutabili Dei consilio (1878), 47 Lux veritatis (1931), 187 Maximum illud (1919), 203 Non abbiamo bisogno (1931), 169, 264n On the Condition of Workers (1931), 187 Pascendi dominici gregis (1907), 53 Pieni l’animo (1906), 227n Quadragesimo anno (1931), 169, 187 Quanta cura (1864), 14 Quod apostolici muneris (1878), 47 Rerum novarum (1891), 19–20, 47, 63, 64, 89, 114, 169, 178, 186, 209 Studiorum ducem (1923), 54 Tra le sollecitudini (1903), 67, 79, 123 Ubi nos arcano Dei (1871), 16 Engels, Friedrich, 59–60 Enlightenment, 1, 25, 53, 56, 63 Ethiopia, wars in, 11–12 Europe, 2, 3, 11, 44–5, 57, 71, 166, 181, 252n Evangelisti, Anna, 108 Eve, 54, 121 Fall, the, 54 family abolition of, 57, 60 apostolic activity for, 167, 180 Catholic concept of, 54 extended meaning of, 68, 90, 96 Fascist policy on, 182, 208, 209, 212–13 feminist threat to, 70, 104, 106, 184, 186 husband’s responsibility for, 51–2, 121–2, 187, 199 Marxist attitude to, 60 Partito popolare’s attitude to, 138 stability of, 55 woman’s role in, 3, 23, 41, 79, 105, 144, 170, 187, 200, 204–5 woman’s status in, 10, 24–5, 43, 57, 104–5, 107, 125 women’s duty to, 161, 183, 200, 204–5 and women’s rights, 92, 96, 137 see also divorce; family law; marital authorization family law, 25, 28, 35, 43, 163, 182, 186 Fanciulli, see Unione fra le donne cattoliche d’Italia fasci (Catholic), 50, 70, 73, 102, 109, 110, 236n Fasci femminili, 58, 179, 206–8, 210, 211, 213, 263 Fascio democratico-cristiano femminile milanese (Milanese Christian Democratic Women’s Group), 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 78, 82, 83, 84, 86, 87, 88–9, 90, 92–3, 109, 110, 236n, 252n Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Index Fascism, 14, 21, 22 brutality of, 12, 22, 147–8, 183, 211 gender ideology of, 204–5 Fascism, confessionalized, 210 Fascist corporations, see Confederazione delle corporazioni fasciste Fascist regime austerity measures by, 208 and Catholic women, 5, 6, 113, 117, 133–5, 181–5, 208–14, 217 and confrontation with Church, 168–9, 191, 211 family law by, 27–8 and feminism, 204, 205, 206 foreign policy of, 11–12 gender policy of, 186, 207–8 population policy of, 181, 182, 186, 204 and trade unions, 133–4, 179, 208, 209, 212 and women’s education, 32–3, 128 and women’s employment, 34–6, 38, 133, 135, 183, 198 and women’s movements, 4, 58, 59, 170 see also adultery; Church-State relations; divorce; prostitution; suffrage; welfare fashion, 71, 127, 171, 172–3, 180, 195, 197 Fati, Argene, 195 Federazione abolizionista (Abolitionist Federation), 94, 238 Federazione femminile (Milan) (Women’s Federation), 72, 93–4, 100, 111, 112, 151, 152, 153, 154 Federazione italiana laureate e diplomate d’istituti superiori (Federation of Italian Women Graduates and Diplomates of Institutes of Higher Learning), 135 Federazione lombarda delle opere di attività femminile (Lombard Federation of Women’s Activities), 94, 152, 153, 250n Federazione nazionale pro suffragio (National Federation for Suffrage), 135 273 Federazione romana (Roman Federation), 1, 58, 219n Federazione universitaria cattolica italiana (Italian Catholic University Federation), 49, 169, 191 female suffrage, see suffrage feminism, 1–8, 24, 79, 100, 103, 104–5, 106–7, 111, 150, 161, 197, 199, 204, 205, 212, 218 bourgeois, 56–7, 58, 59, 106, 136 Catholic, 6, 63, 113, 118, 123, 143, 215–16 Catholic women’s fight against, 175–6 Latin, 205 neutral, 155 practical, 59, 62 proletarian, 106, 108 Protestant, 161 scientific, 62 secular, 4, 56–63, 70, 92, 101, 103, 104, 151, 152 socialist, 57–8, 59–62, 74, 91, 96, 102, 136 theosophical, 62–3 “transigent”, 61–2 femminismo cristiano, 2–5, 7, 63, 71, 74, 80, 86, 102, 103, 113, 115, 117, 118, 122, 125, 135, 149, 153, 204, 215–17 disintegration of, 100–4, 110–12 and industrial relations, 96, 97 and modernism, 53, 102, 110 nature of, 70–1, 90, 96 origin of, 44–52, 61, 63, 70–1 and patronages, 91–2, 94, 97 platform of, 95–6 and prostitution, 89, 98–9 split in, 98 and Unione femminile nazionale, 83, 94, 96, 101–2, 103 and women’s education, 90–1, 95 and women’s employment, 78–9, 95 and women’s rights, 95 and women’s suffrage, 78, 92–3, 96 see also Convegno femminile; feminism; Murri, Romolo; Pensiero e azione; Salerno, Elisa Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 274 Index Fermo proposito (Il), see encyclicals, papal Ferrari, Andrea Carlo, 71, 73, 81, 88, 93, 100, 103, 112, 124, 142, 145, 157, 163, 188–9, 210, 233n, 238n Ferrari, Giovannina, 177 Ferrari, Signora, 155 Feruglio, Antonio, 145 Fiamma viva, 171, 185, 198–9, 203, 212, 261n Figlie della Regina degli Apostoli (Daughters of the Queen of the Apostles), 81 Figlie di Maria (Daughters of Mary), 153 filofascismo prepolitico funzionale, 208 Fin dalla prima nostra, see encyclicals, papal Fogazzaro, Antonio, 61, 94, 107, 116, 124, 145 Fortes in fide, 161, 194 Forza e grazia (Strength and Grace), 197, 211 see also Gioventù femminile Fossati, Roberta, 61 Fourier, François, 57 France, 11, 47, 65, 137, 164, 221n Franceschini, Clara, 206 Franco-Prussian War, 221n freemasonry, 44, 62, 139, 154, 174 French Revolution, 1, 25, 56, 63, 65, 137, 185, 212 Fuà Fusinato, Erminia, 24 Futurists, 21 Gaiotti de Biase, Paola, 4, 70, 77, 152, 154, 201 Gallini, Carlo, 27 Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 9, 17, 24 Gasparri, Pietro, 22, 165, 179, 222n, 228n Gazzetta, Liviana, 5, 77, 179, 182, 208, 251n Gemelli, Agostino, 187–8, 198, 200, 202, 203, 210, 247n gender, 4, 90, 92, 103, 135, 136, 149, 151, 161, 207, 213, 214, 216, 217 attributes of, 57, 120, 135, 161 and Catholic dogma, 54–6; 119–23 collusion of Catholic and Fascist policies on, 207, 212, 217 discrimination by, 30, 33, 34, 55, 65, 108, 126, 128, 138 Vatican policy on, 185–7 see also Fascist regime gender equality, 25, 107, 120, 125, 135 gender jealousy, 122 gender relations, 90, 106, 124, 135, 150 gender roles, 108, 126, 127, 163–4 gender struggle, 90, 96 Genesis, 53, 69 Gentile, Giovanni, 204, 211 Gentiloni, Vincenzo, 17, 27 Germany, 99, 164 Gherardi, Raffaella, 13 Giacomelli, Antonietta, 2, 61, 94, 108, 109–10, 139, 231n, 240n Giolitti, Giovanni, 11, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21, 36, 38, 41–2, 59, 96, 170, 174 Giornale della donna, 207 Giornale d’Italia (Il), 175 Giornata della madre (Mother’s Day), 209 Giornata della madre e del fanciullo (Day of Mother and Child), 209 Giornata missionaria (Missions Collection Day), 203 Giornata universitaria (University Collection Day), 202, 262n giovani (young), 47 Gioventù cattolica italiana, see Società della Gioventù cattolica italiana Gioventù femminile cattolica italiana (Union of Young Italian Catholic Women), 3, 6, 145, 151, 166, 214, 215, 217 angioletti of, 192 apostolic protagonism of, 5, 196 aspiranti of, 192, 195, 198, 201, 260n beniamine of, 172, 192, 198, 201, 260n congresses of, 190–1, 197 constitutions of, 167–8, 190–1 effettive of, 191, 192, 193, 260n Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Index entrenchment of conservatism by, 198–200 and Fascism, 183, 210–13 Forza e grazia of, 197, 211 geographic breakdown of, 193–4 indoctrination by, 198 and industrial matters, 179 membership of, 191, 207, 263n and missions, 203 occupational breakdown of, 192–3 organization of, 190–4 origin of, 6, 187–90 piccolissime of, 192, 263n and pope, 190 propaganda machinery of, 195–8 propagandists of, 195–6, 200, 214 publications by, 171, 196–7 and sport, 192 support of Catholic initiatives by, 202–3 training programmes of, 196, 200–1 value system of, 194–5 Giustiniani Bandini, (Maria) Cristina, 2, 94, 132, 142–3, 152–60, 162–3, 164, 165, 166, 175–6, 177–8, 188, 207, 213, 238n, 251n, 252n Gonzaga, Princess, 76 Gouges, Olympe de, 56, 57 Gozzi, Gaspare, 111 Gran consiglio, 199 Grasso, Enrica, 108 Graves de communi re, see encyclicals, papal Great Depression, 38, 181 Grosoli, Giovanni, 81–2 Grugni, Carlo, 5, 72, 73–5, 76, 78, 83, 84, 88, 91–2, 99, 102, 103, 110, 111, 112, 155, 215–16, 234n, 238n Guido, Ignazio, 148 Harmel, Léon, 48 Holy See, 16, 84, 86, 125, 143, 163, 176 Humanité (L’), 108 illiteracy, 9, 30 Imelda, Blessed, 198, 261n 275 Immaculate Conception, doctrine of, 123 In alto!, 171, 172, 174, 183 In cammino, 61, 108 Incisa di S. Stefano, Marianna, 177 industrialization, 2, 12, 56, 62, 70, 90, 114 Ineffabilis Deus, see Immaculate Conception, doctrine of Inscrutabili Dei consilio, see encyclicals, papal International Alliance for Women’s Suffrage, 9th Congress of, 184 International Council of Women, 58, 175 International Women’ Suffrage Alliance, 59 intransigence, 14, 15, 16–17, 44, 45, 47, 49, 58, 61, 64, 77, 91, 95, 97, 102, 114, 124, 145, 152, 187 see also elections, national; non expedit; suffrage Iolanda, 108 Istituto cattolico di attività sociali (Catholic Institute of Social Activities), 169 Istituto nazionale di san Michele (National Institute of San Michele), 135 Italian Socialist Party, see Partito socialista italiano Italy, Kingdom of, see Fascist regime; Liberal State Jeffrey Howard, Judith, 24 Joan of Arc, St, 159, 161, 190, 195 John XXIII (1958–63), 69 see also Roncalli, Angelo Käppeli, Anne-Marie, 57 Key, Ellen, 61 Kuliscioff, Anna, 2, 27, 34, 59–61, 230n, 237n, 263n Labriola, Antonio, 49, 205 Labriola, Teresa, 34, 205 Laetitia, Princess, 256n Lamentabili sane, 53 larghi (broad-minded), 47 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 276 Index Lateran Pacts, 22–3, 168, 174, 185, 209, 211 Lateran Palaces, 16, 197 Law of Guarantees, 16, 22 Lazzari, Costantino, 174 League of Nations, 12, 30, 208 Lega cattolica femminile per la rigenerazione del lavoro (Catholic Women’s League for the Regeneration of Labour), 77 Lega democratica nazionale (National Democratic League), 20, 50, 94, 102, 108, 109–12 women in, 108–11 see also Murri, Romolo Lega femminile del lavoro, 74–5 Lega lombarda, 107 Lega nazionale delle cooperative italiane (National League of Italian Cooperatives), 238n Lega per la tutela degli interessi femminili (League for the Safeguard of Women’s Interests), 94, 97, 176, 229n Lega promotrice degli interessi femminili, see Lega per la tutela degli interessi femminili leghe (leagues), 74–5, 102, 109 see also Catholic trade unions leghe dei genitori, 145, 162 Leo XIII (1878–1903), 15, 16–17, 19, 20, 26, 47, 48, 50, 53, 56, 63, 64, 66, 67, 68, 81, 82, 149, 163, 186–7, 233n Liberal State, 2, 6, 8–14, 173–4, 181 foreign policy of, 11–12 and laws on women, 24–30 and women’s education, 30–2 and women’s employment, 33–41 see also adultery; Church-State relations; divorce; prostitution; suffrage; welfare liberalism, 10–11, 12–14, 18, 20, 43, 54, 56, 77 Liberatore, Matteo, 19 Libyan War, 11, 21, 164, 176 Liguori, Alphonsus, St, 55, 116, 118, 123 Loisy, Alfred, 53, 102, 139 Lombroso, Cesare, 205 Lombroso, Gina, 205 Lovison, Filippo, 65 Lucciardi, Mayor, 148 Lund, Ragnhild, 228n Lupi, Bernardino, 107 Luraschi, Signora, 97 luxury, 172–3 Lux veritatis, see encyclicals, papal Maffi, Pietro, 145 Maggioni Baldo, Maria, see Baldo, Maria magisteri, 31 Magri, Francesco, 116 Maiocchi Plattis, Maria, see Iolanda Majer Rizzioli, Elisa, 206, 263n Majno Bronzini, Ersilia, 2, 59, 94, 96, 100, 176, 238n malattia delle bacinelle, 131 male clergy, see Catholic clergy Malnati, Linda, 94, 96, 101, 238n, 251n Manzoni, Alessandro, 116 Marangoni, Guido, 174 Marchesini, Daniele, 30 Margherita, Queen, 143 Margotti, Giacomo, 16 Mariani, Francesco, 75, 76, 83–5, 236n marital authorization, 25, 27, 28, 58, 96, 121, 176 see also family law marriage attitudes to, 62, 104–6, 128, 131, 160, 192, 199, 200, 208, 237n and Catholic dogma, 55, 65, 120, 121, 122, 185–7 civil, 16, 26, 228n equality in, 6, 107, 200 and girls’ education, 32, 62, 127 hidden, 56 and prostitution, 29, 99 religious, 23, 26–7, 160, 174, 218 see also divorce; marital authorization; patria potestas marriage goods, 55 Martini, Antonio, 146 Marx, Karl, 57 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Index Marxism, 27, 49, 56, 57, 59, 60, 61, 189, 230n Mary, 123, 161, 187 mas occasionatus, 54, 119 Massaie rurali (Rural Housewives), 207, 208 Matelda, 162 materfamilias, 200 maternity fund, 13, 40, 97 Mattei Gentili, Paolo, 107 Mattei, Ida, 195 Matteotti, Giacomo, 22, 211 Mauri, of Monza, 76 Maximum illud, see encyclicals, papal Mazzini, Giuseppe, 9, 23–4, 41 Mazzinians, 24, 58, 61 Mazzola, Calimero, 132 Meda, Filippo, 20, 21, 81–2, 254n Medolago Albani, Stanislao, 51, 86, 93 Melegari, Dora, 61 Meletti, Adelina, 97, 238n Menelik II, 11 Mercier, Desiré, 119 Merry del Val, Raffaele, 51, 82, 97, 158 Messina, 72 migration, internal, 130, 180, 208 see also emigration Militello, Cettina, 102 Mill, John Stuart, 1, 57, 135, 201, 229n Minimum Feminist Programme, 90, 95, 99 Minoretti, Dalmazio, 79, 83, 84 Mirabelli, Roberto, 41 missions, 66, 196, 203 mixed unions, 19, 49, 97 see also Catholic trade unions modernism, 52–4, 61, 72, 100, 102, 123–5, 155, 159, 240n Molteni, G., 107 Montessori, Maria, 1, 41, 63, 72 Morelli, Salvatore, 1, 26, 41 Moretti, Angiola, 206 motherhood, 79, 105, 120, 122, 186, 205, 212 divine, 121 extended meaning of, 62, 69, 79, 93, 96, 217 Mozzoni, Anna Maria, 1, 24, 27, 41, 57–8, 59, 60, 223n, 229n 277 Murri, Romolo, 20, 49–50, 53, 69, 72, 73, 87, 94, 100, 102, 103, 124, 139, 155, 178, 216, 233n, 240n, 242n excommunication of, 20, 102, 228n survey on feminism by, 106–8, 241n and woman question, 104–12 see also Lega democratica nazionale Mussolini, Benito, 12, 14, 21–3, 27, 28, 30, 35, 42, 133, 135, 138, 144, 148, 149, 150, 168, 169, 179, 181, 183–5, 186, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 222n mutual aid societies, 46, 92, 114, 139, 166, 178 Napoleonic Code, 25 Nathan, Ernesto, 174 Nathan, Sara, 24 National Congress of Italian Women First, 58, 100–1, 151, 153, 196, 240n Second, 175–6 Nationalists, 21 naturalism, 14 Naudet, Paul Antoine, 102 Nedrato, Maria, 98 Negri, Ada, 59, 207, 263n Neo-Thomism, 54, 233n Newman, John Henry, 102 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 21 Nitti, Francesco, 144 Non abbiamo bisogno, see encyclicals, papal non expedit, 16–18, 20, 45, 47, 48 see also elections, national; intransigence; suffrage non licet, 16, 221n normal schools, 31, 32, 33 Nucleo fisso, 52, 76, 82, 84, 86, 87, 89, 93, 236n Nuns, see women religious O’Brien, Albert, 168 Oeuvre, Belgian, 181 Olcott, Henry Steel, 62 Olgiati, Francesco, 200, 201, 203, 247n, 261n ONMI, 40, 181–2, 208 see also welfare Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 278 Index On the Condition of Workers, see encyclicals, papal Opera dei congressi e dei comitati cattolici in Italia (Organization of Catholic Congresses and Committees in Italy), 20, 26, 44–52, 69, 80, 81–2, 86, 87, 100, 108, 109, 110, 111, 114, 240n and women, 46, 51–2, 63, 68–70, 74–6, 82, 86, 87, 93, 94, 234n Opera dei ritiri operai (Workers’ Retreats), 169 Opera della protezione della giovane, see Patronato per la protezione della giovane operaia Opera della regalità di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo (Institution of the Sovreignty of Our Lord Jesus Christ), 188 Opera delle madrine degli orfani di guerra (Institution of Godmothers for War Orphans), 174 Opera di assistenza religiosa per i militari (Institution for Religious Assistance to Soldiers), 169 Opera nazionale Balilla, see Balilla Opera nazionale per la protezione della maternità e dell’infanzia (National Organization for the Protection of Maternity and Infancy), see ONMI opere pie (charitable works), 97 Original Sin, 121 Orlando, Vittorio Emanuele, 143, 144 Osservatore cattolico (L’), 46, 72, 107, 115, 141, 155, 248n Osservatore romano (L’), 82, 183 Pacelli, Eugenio, see Pius XII Pacendi dominici gregis, see encyclicals, papal Paino, Angelo, 22 Palumbo, of Venice, 76 pantheism, 14 papacy, 14, 15, 17, 22, 44, 45, 49, 112, 196 Papenheim, Martin, 15 Paper, Ernestina, 34 parents’ leagues, see leghe dei genitori Parola fraterna (Fraternal Word), 103 Parravicino di Revel, Sabina, 87, 94, 95, 96, 99, 153, 157–8, 163, 238n, 252n Partito dei lavoratori italiani (Italian Workers’ Party), 18 Partito democratico cristiano (Christian Democratic Party), 110 Partito popolare italiano (Italian Popular Party), 17, 18, 20–1, 50, 110, 138, 145, 169, 183, 247n Partito socialista italiano (Italian Socialist Party), 13, 14, 17, 18, 21, 22, 26, 27, 41, 49, 58, 59, 60, 61, 92–3, 132, 134, 136, 174, 226n, 230n, 238n Pasini, Maria, see Salerno, Elisa Passoni, Adolfo, 84 Pastori, Giuseppina, 199 paterfamilias, 162, 200 paternity searches, 26, 27, 28, 58, 95, 136, 138, 176 Patria, 107 patria potestas, 25, 28, 136, 182, 186, 223n see also family law Patrizi Gondi, Maddalena, 143, 166, 174, 183, 189, 190, 196, 207, 210 patronages, 6, 91, 94, 97, 132, 178–9, 217, 237n Patronato di mutuo soccorso (Patronage of Mutual Aid), 178 Patronato per la protezione della giovane operaia (Patronage for the Protection of Young Female Workers), 76, 77, 80, 83, 91, 178, 180, 208 Paul, Apostle, 122 Pecci, Vincenzo Gioacchino, see Leo XIII Pensiero e azione, 64, 86–104 description of, 89–90 and female suffrage, 92–3 and national women’s organization, 93 suppression of, 100–4 see also femminismo cristiano Pera, Isabella, 4, 68, 73, 88 Pericoli, Paolo, 189 Periculoso, 65 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Index Per la riscossa cristiana, 110 Piedmont, 9, 15, 16, 29, 44, 110, 193 Pieni l’animo, see encyclicals, papal Pieroni Bortolotti, Franca, 35–8, 225n Pio sodalizio delle missionarie della regalità di Cristo (Pious Sodality of the Missionaries of the Sovereignty of Christ), 188, 200 Pisanelli, Giuseppe, 25 Pisanelli civil code, 25–6, 27 Pius IX (1846–78), 14–15, 16, 56, 123 Pius X (1903–14), 3, 15, 17, 20, 35, 45, 50, 51, 53–4, 56, 66, 67, 68, 79, 81–2, 88, 93, 101, 110, 111, 123, 125, 153–4, 158, 161, 162, 166, 177, 215, 227n, 228n Pius XI (1922–39), 3, 15, 54, 81, 144, 167, 169, 185, 186–7, 190, 198, 201, 202, 203, 211, 264n Pius XII (1939–58), 54, 144 Plato, 54 podestà, 42 Poët, Lidia, 34 Pollard, John, 12, 258n, 264n primary teaching, see women’s employment Problemi femminili, 17, 133, 134, 135, 138, 140, 144, 146, 147–8, 172 professional unions, see Catholic trade unions prostitution abolitionist approach to, 30, 123 and Catholics, 69, 80, 89, 98, 99, 138, 176, 180 in colonies, 30 in Fascist Italy, 30, 42 and international trafficking, 30, 176, 184 in Liberal Italy, 29, 99 and marriage, 99 regulatory approach to, 29, 30 Protezione della giovane, see Patronato per la protezione della giovane operaia Quadragesimo anno, see encyclicals, papal Quanta cura, see encyclicals, papal 279 Quod apostolici muneris, see encyclicals, papal Racca, Anna, 198 Radicals, 21, 58 Radini Tedeschi, Giacomo Maria, 52, 68–9, 71, 74, 76, 78–9, 81–8, 93, 100, 102, 111, 215–16 Rampolla del Tindaro, Mariano, 17, 81, 163 Rassegna nazionale, 163 Red Cross, 36, 165, 208, 209 “Red Week”, 21 Republicans, 21, 41 Rerum novarum, see encyclicals, papal Respighi, Pietro, 153 Restori, Vasco, 93 rigidi (strict), 47 Rimaldi, Maria, 167 Riscossa (La), 114, 124 Risorgimento, 8–9, 15 and women, 23–4, 41, 43, 57, 61 Rivista delle signorine, see Rivista per le signorine Rivista di filosofia neoscolastica, 188 Rivista per le signorine, 61, 98 Rodolfi, Ferdinando, 116–17, 118, 124, 127, 129, 141–3, 145–8 Roesler Franz, Maria, 101, 154, 239n Romanato, Gianpaolo, 66 Romanelli, Raffaele, 14 Roman Question, 16, 22, 49, 78, 81, 148 romanticism, 53, 62 Roncalli, Angelo, 69, 232n see also John XXIII Rosa, Enrico, 169 Rose, of Viterbo, St, 190, 195 Rösler, Agostino, 137 Rosmini, Antonio, 61 Rossi, Alessandro, 131 Rumi, Giorgio, 210, 212, 259n Russia, 164 Sabatier, Paul, 102 Sacchetti, Giuseppe, 226n Sacchi, Ettore, 27 Sacchi law, 27, 34, 35 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 280 Index Sacra congregazione dei religiosi (Sacred Congregation of the Religious), 67 Sacra congregazione dei vescovi e regolari (Sacred Congregation of Bishops and Regulars), 66 Sacra congregazione del concilio (Sacred Congregation of the Council), 172 Sacred Heart, 187, 188, 202 sacred music, 67, 79, 123, 145 Saint Léon, E. Martin, 108 Sale, Giovanni, 104 Saint-Simon, Claude Henri, 57 Saint-Simonianism, 62 Salerno, Elisa, 2, 4, 94, 113–50, 166 and Catholic dogma, 118–23 and Catholic lay movement, 139–43, 155 and Coari, 115, 140 and da Persico, 136–7, 141–2 employment survey by, 129–31 and Fascism, 133–5, 148 and Giustiniani Bandini, 142–3 and industrial organization, 132–5, 139 and modernism, 123–5 and Mussolini, 144 and Partito popolare italiano, 138 and religious authorities, 143–8 and Rodolfi, 142–3, 146–7 and secular authorities, 143–4, 148–50 and Toniolo, 115–16, 141 and Unione donne, 133, 143 and women’s education, 125–9 and women’s ordination, 122 and women’s rights, 135–8 and women’s suffrage, 136–8 San Domenico (Bologna), 198 Sanger, Margaret, 61 Santa congregazione consistoriale (Holy Consistorial Congregation), 181 Sant’ Anna di mutuo soccorso di Vicenza (St Anna Mutual Aid Society of Vicenza), 139 Santoliquado, Rocco, 29 Sarfatti, Margherita, 207, 263n Sarogni, Emilia, 24, 25 Sarto, Giuseppe Melchiorre, see Pius X Scaraffia, Lucetta, 5, 62–3, 68, 101, 194 Scardino Belzer, Allison, see Belzer, Allison Scardino Scardona, 166 Schiff, Paolina, 57, 97, 229n scholasticism, 15, 116, 118, 119, 121, 123 Scialoja, Vittorio, 27 Scotton, Andrea, 124 Scotton, Gottardo, 124 Scotton, Jacopo, 124 Sebenico, 166 Segretariato pro famiglia (Secretariat for the Benefit of the Family), 181 Segretariato pro risaiole (Secretariat for the Benefit of Rice-weeders), 180 Semeria, Giovanni, 72, 102, 110 Serafini, Giulio, 153, 165 Serralunga, G.M., 107 Sertillanges, Antonin-Gilbert, 137 Settimana della madre (Mother’s Week), 209 Settimana nazionale (Catholic), 180 Settimana sociale (Social Week) Brescia, 156–7 Palermo, 156–7 Pistoia, 140, 141, 155 Settimana sociale (periodical), 141 Settimana sociale femminile, 177 Seveso, Gabriella, 59 Shen-Si (China), 203 Sicily, 9, 50, 51, 110, 158, 194 signore, 71, 83, 84–5, 91, 93, 132, 168 Sindacato fascista dei giornalisti veneti (Fascist Union of Veneto Journalists), 134 sisters, see women religious socialism, 6, 14, 18–20, 44, 48, 70, 77, 80, 103, 133, 178, 183, 194 Socialists, see Partito socialista italiano social work, 35–6, 66, 68, 97, 99, 176, 179–82, 209, 210, 212, 217 see also welfare Società cattolica femminile di mutuo soccorso S. Felicissima di Schio (Schio Catholic Women’s Mutual Aid Society), 139 Società della gioventù cattolica italiana (Society of Italian Catholic Youth), 45, 47, 167, 189, 192, 194 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Index Società di patronato e mutuo soccorso per le operaie (Patronage and Mutual Aid Society for Female Workers), 94 Sodalitium pianum, see Sodality of St Pius V Sodality of St. Pius V, 53 Soderini, Edoardo, 104 Sorel, Georges, 21 Spalletti Rasponi, Gabriella, 58, 101, 175 squadristi, 22 Squilli di risurrezione, 171, 197, 211 Squilli parrocchiali, 200 Stabilimento Orefice, 131 Starace, Achille, 204 Stelluti Scala Frascara, Itta, 206 Sticco, Maria, 185, 212 Stirati, Luigi, 104, 107 stirpe, 205 Stocchiero, Giuseppe, 127 Studiorum ducem, see encyclicals, papal Sturzo, Luigi, 18, 20–1, 50–1, 110, 138, 162, 222n Suardo, Giacomo, 135 suffrage, 10, 13–14, 17, 26, 138 female, 2, 3, 6, 8, 28, 41–3, 51, 57, 58–61, 78, 81, 92–3, 96, 102, 107, 108, 115, 136–8, 144, 152, 175, 176, 183–5, 198–9, 200, 212–13, 215, 258n see also elections, national; elections, local; intransigence; non expedit suore, see women religious Syllabus of Errors, 14–15 Tallet, Frank, 53 teaching, see women’s employment Tedeschini, F., 166 Teresa, of Avila, St, 129, 245n Terruzzi, Regina, 208 Terz’ordine francescano veneto, 139 Theimer, Camilla, 93 Theosophical Society, 62–3 Thomas, Aquinas, St, 53–5, 104, 116–17, 118–22, 142 Togliatti, Palmiro, 42 281 Toniolo, Giuseppe, 19, 48–9, 68, 88, 102–3, 115–16, 118, 139, 141, 152–9, 202, 248n, 251n, 252n Toniolo, Maria, 155, 158 Topinard, Paul, 120 Tra le sollecitudini, see encyclicals, papal trasformismo, 11 Trent, 166 Tribuna sociale, 73, 103 Trieste, 9, 166 Trinitarian processions, 120 Tripoli, 11 Turati, Augusto, 206 Turati, Filippo, 14, 18, 42, 226n, 230n Turkey, 11, 45 Tyrrell, George, 102, 139 Ubi nos arcano Dei, see encyclicals, papal Ufficio nazionale del lavoro (National Labour Office), 238n Unification, 2, 4, 8–9, 10, 15, 19, 22, 23, 24, 30, 41, 56, 70, 218 Unione cattolica delle istituzioni economiche e sociali, see Unione economico-sociale Unione cattolica per gli studi sociali (Catholic Union for Social Studies), 48 Unione delle vergini di nostra Signora della Mercede (Union of the Virgins of Our Lady of Grace), 114 Unione donne di Azione cattolica italiana, see Unione fra le donne cattoliche d’Italia Unione economico-sociale (Catholic Union of Economic and Social Institutions), 51, 160, 167, 178, 179 Unione elettorale cattolica italiana (Italian Catholic Electoral Union), 51, 167 Unione femminile cattolica italiana (Italian Catholic Women’s Union), 133, 143, 166, 167, 168, 171–2, 179, 180–1, 182, 183–4, 186, 190, 191, 194, 196, 197, 203, 209, 210, 255n Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 282 Index Unione femminile (Milan) (Women’s Union), 1 Unione femminile nazionale (National Women’s Union), 58, 59, 94, 96, 101, 102–3, 135, 176, 230n, 263n Unione fra le donne cattoliche d’Italia (Union for Italian Catholic Women), 2, 3, 94, 113, 142, 151 appeal of, 170 Boys’ group of, 168–9 constitutions of, 154, 158–9, 161, 166–8, 170 and Fascism, 181–5, 208–10 and feminism, 151, 154, 175–6 under Giustiniani Bandini, 159–63 and industrial issues, 176–9 and Liberal State, 173–4 and Libyan War, 164, 176 membership of, 164, 167, 169 organization of, 166–70 origin of, 152–9 and Partito popolare italiano, 183 under Patrizi Gondi, 165–6 patron saints of, 161 and political issues, 182–5 regulation by, of members’ lives, 171–3 social work by, 179–82 and Unione economico-sociale, 160, 167, 178 and Unione popolare, 155–60, 162–3, 165, 166–7 and Vatican’s gender policies, 185–7 and World War I, 163–5 Unione internazionale delle leghe femminili cattoliche (International Union of Catholic Women’s Leagues), 252n Unione per il bene (Union for Good), 61–2, 108 Unione popolare fra i cattolici d’Italia (Italian Catholic People’s Union), 48, 51, 116, 141, 152–3, 155–60, 162–3, 165–7, 178, 248n, 251n, 254n Unità cattolica (L’), 76, 100, 103, 240n United States of America, 3, 98, 181, 252n Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart), 5, 185, 188, 196, 200, 202–3, 210–11, 233n Universitarie cattoliche italiane (Catholic University Women of Italy), 167–8, 191 Ursuline sisters, 81, 185 Vaccari, Michela, 118 Valerio, Adriana, 56 Vatican, 5–6, 16, 21, 22, 42, 46, 80, 82, 148, 222n, 254n and women, 159, 163, 172, 185–7, 215, 217 Vatican City State, 22 Vatican I, 15 vecchi (old), 47 Veggian, Tizziano, 146 venereal disease, 29, 99, 180 Venturelli, Elisabetta, 101 Vessillo bianco (Il), 114–15, 136, 139, 140, 145 Vicentini, Elisa, 122–3 Vicenza, 2, 107, 113, 114, 116, 117, 129, 139, 140, 141, 142, 145–6, 147–8 Villa, Tommaso, 26 virginity, 55 Virgin Mary, see Mary visitatrici, 182 Vita e pensiero, 188 Vita femminile, 98 Vita nova (La), 49 Vita sociale (La), 71 Vittoria Colonna, 81 Vodoz, A., 108 wars of independence, 9, 24, 45 welfare Catholic, 54, 67, 77, 161 under Fascist regime, 5, 40–1, 179, 181–2, 208 under Liberal State, 12–13, 38, 40 see also charity; ONMI widowhood, 55 Wollstonecraft, Mary, 56–7 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330 Index womanhood Catholic ideas of, 54, 69, 104–5, 106, 123, 160 Mazzini’s idea of, 23–4 normative models of, 204–5 woman’s states of life, 55 women religious, 31, 64, 65–8, 113, 126, 128–9, 149, 203, 225n tertiaries, 64, 67, 68, 71, 72, 77, 114, 139–40, 152, 187, 195 women’s education, see education, women’s women’s employment, 8, 33–41, 60, 95, 103, 126, 165, 175, 184, 192–3, 199, 217 in agriculture, 36, 37–8, 97, 208 in armaments, 37 in domestic service, 37, 38 by economic sector, 37, 39, 192–3 in higher education, 135, 199 in industry, 36–7, 38, 51–2, 60, 70, 79, 97, 129–31 in nursing and social work, 35–6, 99, 126, 217 283 in office and retail, 36, 38 in primary teaching, 33, 43, 126, 174, 199, 217, 225n in private teaching, 34 professional, 34–5, 37, 60, 107, 108 restrictions on, 34, 27–8, 43, 108, 135, 183, 198 in secondary teaching, 33–4, 126, 183, 198, 199, 217 in State and local government, 27, 28, 36, 38 and welfare legislation, 13, 38, 40–1, 51–2, 60 women’s suffrage, see suffrage Wood, Sharon, 231n World War I, 9, 21, 147, 188, 249n and Catholic women, 43, 72–3, 132–3, 163–5, 188 World War II, 12, 42 Zanardelli, Giuseppe, 26 Zarri, Gabriella, 65 Copyrighted material – 9781137406330
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