ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on this fascist colonial propaganda campaign directed at young women and seeks to illuminate the intersecting national, colonial and transimperial circuits of representation that have been involved in shaping gendered and racialized memories in Italy since the 1930s. In the space of a few years, propaganda in Italy intensified tremendously, with imperial fantasies shaping the efforts of the regime to define appropriate gender, class and racialized roles for an ideal fascist society. In 1937, two fascist organizations became involved in the design and implementation of colonial training for women: the Fascist Colonial Institute and the Fasci Femminili, the main Fascist Party organization for women. The urban nature of fascist imperial society remained a problematic and unresolved challenge in developing a distinctive and coherent discourse on Italian modernity. The colonial training publications were intended to disseminate information about the Italian Empire and awareness of its potential for development and productivity.
