Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women’s Food Work

by Diana Garvin

Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women’s Food Work” examines how women navigated the political challenges to both food production and sexual reproduction under Italy’s fascist regime. And Garvin’s research about how they resisted these challenges offers valuable insights into the growing threats to reproductive rights in the United States.

Genres: History, Food, Nonfiction

320 pages, Hardcover

First published January 15, 2022

About the author

Diana Garvin is an Assistant Professor of Italian with a specialty in Mediterranean Studies in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon. She conducted her postdoctoral research at the American Academy in Rome as the 2017-2018 Rome Prize winner for Modern Italian Studies.