In the wake of the historic election of the first black president of the United States, the ex-
prime minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, in greeting the event, made an uncanny remark that …

In Islam and Gender in Colonial Northeast Africa, Silvia Bruzzi provides an account of
Islamic movements and gender dynamics in the context of colonial rule in Northeast Africa …

I discuss the complicated process of the early twentieth-century construction of the
multifaceted, certainly controversial and mostly unspoken, Italian idea of whiteness. In order …

Colonial concubinage in Ethiopia during the Italian occupation (1936–1941) has not been
deeply studied yet. This article explores the peculiarities of the so-called madamato–that …

Following a visual trajectory that begins in the mid-1930s, this article discusses advertising
for cleaning products in order to trace the peculiar formation of the idea of hygiene and its …

Die Geschichte dieses Buches ist lang, und lang ist auch die Liste der Menschen und
Institutionen, die zu seiner Realisierung beigetragen haben. Ihnen möchte ich meinen Dank …

Il 24 settembre 1938, Oretta e Fiammetta R., figlie adolescenti di un dirigente dell'Istituto
fascista per l'Africa italiana, partirono con altre duecento coetanee per il primo–nel caso di …

Il volume raccoglie una serie di contributi presentati nel convegno omonimo svoltosi presso
il Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici dell'Università Ca'Foscari nell'ottobre 2014; in essi si …

Women, Resistance and the Creation of New Gendered Frontiers in the Making of Modern
Libya, 1890-1980 examines the gendered transformation in the territory that became Libya …

This paper studies the Fascist Colonial Institute (ICF) of Bologna as a local space in which
fascist ideals of empire, gender and class collided and were reproduced. Founded shortly …