Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Inventions of Women's Making, in History and Critical Thought -- 1 Feminism and Socialism in Anna Kuliscioff's Writings -- 2 Gender Struggle and the Social Manipulation and Ideological Use of Gender Identity in the Interwar Years -- 3 Women, Futurism, and Fascism -- 4 Fascist Theories of "Woman" and the Construction of Gender -- 5 Fascist Women and the Rhetoric of Virility -- 6 The Power of Style: Fashion and Self-Fashioning in Irene Brin's Journalistic Writing -- 7 Sibilla Aleramo: Writing a Personal Myth -- 8 Antonietta Raphaël: Artist, Woman, Foreigner, Jew, Wife, Mother, Muse, and Anti-Fascist -- 9 Alba De Céspedes's There's No Turning Back: Challenging the New Woman's Future -- 10 Reading, Writing, and Rebellion: Collectivity, Specularity, and Sexuality in the Italian Schoolgirl Comedy, 1934-43 -- Appendix: Chronology of Italian Fascism and Women in History and Criticism -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.