The discourse of anti-Fascism and food protest in underground women’s publications

Abstract

The article discusses the practice of food protest within the Resistance in both Italy and France. In both countries, women’s groups connected to left-wing political movements, in particular those within the Communist Party orbit, were behind the organization of these protests. Through a reading of the French and Italian women’s underground press, the article examines the anti-Fascist discourse around food demonstrations. It sheds light on a practice that was in Italy as frequent as in France but which, unlike the French counterpart, has fallen between the cracks of history.