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Mussolini promised to bring about a fascist revolution that would produce a new and powerful Italy led by a new breed of Italian men, who would be physically fit, imbued with a martial spirit, disciplined, and always ready to fight and, if necessary, die for fascism and the fatherland. Women supported the men as wives and mothers but also participated in sports, physical training and a thoroughly fascist education. Fascism came to power as a youth movement and promised that through youth a new Italy would emerge.
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For this paragraph, see Clive Foss, “Teaching Fascism: Schoolbooks of Mussolini’s Italy,” Harvard Library Bulletin, 8:1 (Spring 1997): 5–30; quotation, 10.
Alessandro La Bella, Piccolo Albo di Cultura Fascista ( Milan: Castano Primo, 1934 ): 27.
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Painter, B.W. (2005). Sports, Education, and the New Italians. In: Mussolini’s Rome. Italian and Italian American Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403976918_3
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