Series | Studi di storia
Volume 12 | Monograph | Marrying and Divorcing in Postwar Europe

Marrying and Divorcing in Postwar Europe

Ideological Struggles Across the Iron Curtain
open access | peer reviewed
  • Stefania Bernini - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email

Abstract

Taking Italy and Poland as its main case studies, this book re-examines the major political and ideological confrontations that crossed Cold War Europe from the perspective of ordinary families and of those who sought to regulate the way in which they lived. Crossing the iron curtain, and looking at two countries hardly ever brought together in historical analysis, the book shows the extent to which the battle over the regulation of family and marriage shaped the social, political and cultural landscape of postwar Europe.

Keywords PolandCold WarItalyMarriageCatholic ChurchDivorceFamilyCommunismPostwar

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-394-6 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-394-6 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-395-3 | Number of pages 170 | Dimensions 16x23cm | Published Jan. 11, 2020 | Accepted Nov. 20, 2019 | Submitted April 15, 2019 | Language en