Fascist foodways: <i>Ricettari</i> as propaganda for grain production and sexual reproduction

Garvin, Diana

doi:10.1080/07409710.2021.1901384

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“…Already from 1925, the Fascist government had implemented a series of agricultural and food policies while propagandistically promoting frugality as an innate quality of the Mediterranean race. The concepts of a healthy body, virility and fertility were the foundations of the Fascist ideas of food consumption (Garvin 2021). With the so-called 'Battle for Wheat' announced in April 1925, Mussolini launched an ambitious and structured plan towards autarky, conceived not only as an economic undertaking but as an extensive and variegated propaganda campaign aimed at galvanising the Italian population.…”

Section: Fascist Food Policies and The Fragmentation Of Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

Dynamics, experiences and political meaning of the black market in Second World War Italy

Sambuco

2023

Mod. Italy

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Rationing and illegal food trade in Second World War Italy have received very little scholarly attention in comparison to the scale and impact they had on people's daily life. This article contributes to filling this gap, first by providing an overview of the dynamics that already in the early years of the war determined the development of an illegal system of food trade. It then considers the experience of the black market through two wartime diaries, one published and the other unpublished, written by women of opposite political views, both living in Rome and its outskirts. The analysis of the diaries considers women's attitudes towards the black market. The article argues that the Fascist propaganda of duty to the homeland, so intensively practised through domestic literature during the 1920s and 1930s, was again exploited in wartime in the discourse around the black market and hid the political responsibilities of the government.

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Section: Fascist Food Policies and The Fragmentation Of Societymentioning

confidence: 99%