THIS BIOGRAPHY OF WRITER, TRANSLATOR, TEACHER, AND FEMINIST ADA
GOBETTI, THE FIRST IN ENGLISH OR ITALIAN, FRAMES HER ACTIVISM IN THE
_RESISTENZA_ AS A CHAPTER IN A LIFETIME OF RESISTANCE.
By the time Turin was liberated in April 1945, writer, translator,
teacher, and women's rights activist Ada Gobetti had been fighting
fascism for almost twenty-five years. This biography frames her
wartime activism in the _Resistenza_ as a chapter in a lifetime of
resistance. Gobetti participated in the underground _Giustizia e
Libertà_ movement, and helped to found the _Partito d'Azione_, a
political party whose members asked her to represent them as vice
mayor of Turin after the war. For Gobetti, the _Resistenza_ also
brought an awareness of the specific talents, needs, and rights of
Italian women. This led her to organize other Italian women against
German occupiers and Fascist oppressors, found an underground women's
newspaper, and solidify her views regarding women as a political
force. After 1945, resistance meant espousing a set of ideals
exemplified by the best that came out of the _Resistenza_, ideals of
grassroots democracy, women's rights, and democratic education for
which Gobetti would fight for the rest of her life.
Jomarie Alano is a visiting scholar at Cornell University's Institute
for European Studies. She is the translator and editor of Ada
Gobetti's _Diario partigiano_, published by Oxford University Press in
2014 as _Partisan Diary: A Woman's Life in the Italian Resistance_.
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Ada Prospero Marchesini Gobetti (1902-1968)
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ISBN
9781782049203
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2020
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Ingram Publisher Services UK- Academic
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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