‘Lontane da Voghera’. Italian Housewives as Consumers and Spectators between Public and Private Spheres, 1954–1964

Missero, Dalila and Garofalo, Damiano (2018) ‘Lontane da Voghera’. Italian Housewives as Consumers and Spectators between Public and Private Spheres, 1954–1964. The Italianist, 38 (2). p. 174. ISSN 0261-4340

Abstract

This article analyses the relationship between women and media consumption in post-war Italy. By means of both qualitative and quantitative sources, the article analyses and overturn the traditional dicothomy between the public and private spheres in order to reframe Italian women's agency in the post-war years.