ABSTRACT
The previous chapters have shown that the Fascist era saw significant changes in policies and attitudes relating to women and sport. To begin with, the 1920s saw battles for female emancipation and greater participation by women in sporting activities. The new social status achieved by working women during the First World War, together with the ideological embrace of ‘modernity’ by the Futurists and the early Fascists, helped some women to resist bourgeois traditionalism and Catholic misogyny, and a few of them opened up some space for themselves within the sporting world.
