Authors: Armida Barelli
curators: Simona Ferrantin, Paolo Trionfini
AVE Publishing: 2016 – pp. 432- €25.00
The volume contains the memories of the founder of the Female Youth of Catholic Action, which traces the history of the first thirty years. The work, originally published in 1948, was to be published in a new, corrected and enriched edition, which did not see the light of day due to the death of Armida Barelli. Now the text that the "big sister" herself would have liked to publish is being re-proposed, in a critical edition which, through a rigorous set of notes, helps to adequately understand the extraordinary story of the largest mass female organization in the history of Italy, which in 1950 reached over one million members.
Through the story of the founder, a vivid fresco emerges on the transformations of the condition of women in a season of radical changes in the universe of values, passed through the constraints of the twenty years of fascism, to re-emerge in forms of renewed protagonism to the test of post-war democracy.
