Friday, August 5 , 2022, in Asiago, an interesting literary meeting awaits you "Women at the front - The importance of women in the Great War":
- Paolo Gaspari presents his book "Mobilitazione femminile nella Grande Guerra" (Ed. Gaspari).
- Raffaella Calgaro presents her book "Tutta un'altra storia - La Grande Guerra raccontata da donne e bambini" (Ed. Marcianum Press).
The appointment, which is part of the cultural review "Aperitif with the Author", organized by the Giunti Library of Asiago, is at 17:30 in Piazza Carli or, in case of bad weather, at the Palazzo del Turismo Millepini.
Free participation.
THE BOOK: WOMEN'S MOBILIZATION IN THE GREAT WAR (ed. Gaspari)
The mobilization of civil society during the Great War was essentially the mobilization of women. It represented the greatest test of popular participation and civil cohesion overcome by Italians in their history. In that war, in fact, the peoples who managed to be more cohesive and participate in the exploits of the soldiers at the front won.
The Italian population, the latest arrival among the European democracies, showed an operational capacity that very often made up for the organizational shortcomings of the State, for example in the protection and assistance of minors and in hot food on the line of fire. Women left homes and domestic roles and entered en masse into economic and social life. Female protagonism had an acceleration and a diffusion that pervaded all the social classes of the North as well as the South.
Not only godmothers of war and intellectuals belonging to the elites, but also women of the petty bourgeoisie and the popular classes: teachers, mothers of families for the care of the children of the recalled, women recruited for military work at the front or in the cities in the fabric recovery laboratories, in the Opera scaldarancio, wool, protection of minors, etc., and then actresses, the spies, the doctors. A history that was missing in the historiography of the war which, among other things, was experienced as the conclusion of the unification of Italy.
Paolo Gaspari
Historian, for several years he has been dealing with military history, founder of the homonymous publishing house in Udine.
THE BOOK: A WHOLE OTHER STORY - THE GREAT WAR TOLD BY WOMEN AND CHILDREN (Ed. Marcianum Press)
War is not just a military affair. Eradicate and cancel communities. It deprives entire peoples of elementary rights by involving them in an endless drama. Houses destroyed, families dismembered, sudden escapes. This is the human tragedy that crosses people when the Great War enters homes, devastating family ties and imposing a forced estrangement. Women, old people and children, catapulted to the front line, become helpless and silent protagonists of an escape from violence in search of peace. Without a goal, without food, without clothes. Refugees flee from their microcosm, travel to all regions of Italy, suffer, lose their children. The female world acquires a decision-making power never had before; the angel of the hearth disappears to make way for a woman who has the fate of the family in her hands. And children, in a time that does not understand, nor leaves room for childhood, suddenly become adults. War redefines rules and values, erases the identity of the people who live close to the conflict. The memory of this people, simple and humble, finally gives breath to a historical narrative set aside or closed in the drawer for too long.
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