Behind Enemy Lines: The Untold Stories of Italy’s Female Warriors Who Sabotaged the Nazis
I think that’s so important, even today: political education is a part of every resistance movement. Understanding why you’re doing something, understanding the philosophy that you don’t have to invent yourself – you can be a part of something that’s larger. And that was what was so powerful about what was happening in Italy – everyone of this age, in their early twenties, they only knew life under Fascism, and Fascism did what it intended to do, which was only teach an entire generation what it wanted them to know. So they didn’t have a real sense of revolution or history or women’s agency. Mussolini didn’t want them to understand. The tradwife trend now very much has its roots in Fascism. Women are only meant to be babymakers and they should not be politically engaged. And if they do anything outside the norm they’re deviant.
