Female Sexuality in Fascist Ideology

Abstract

I Why has the connection between fascism and female sexuality been passed over in silence? Does not this silence on the question of women and fascism amount to the historical non-existence of women? Why has fascism safeguarded the secret that women have been cheated in terms of their sexuality as well as politically and economically? Fascism has traced a path, from Mussolini to Hitler to Franco, through the political, social and economic terrain of a dictatorship which devoured Europe for fifty years. Why has its relationship to women never been analysed dialectically? Why is the historical stage, for women, like Shakespeare's theatre-but empty of the actors?