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Victoria F. De Grazia
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Columbia University
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Biography
Victoria de Grazia specializes in the contemporary history of Western Europe, in particularly, mass and consumer cultures, gender, and the history of family politics. She received her B.A. from Smith in 1968 and her Ph.D. from Columbia in 1976. Her publications include The Culture of Consent: Mass Organization of Leisure in Fascist Italy (1981), How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922–1945 (1992), and essays related to her current research on "America and the Coming of Consumer Modernity in Twentieth Century Europe." She also edited, The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective (1996). Her newest book is the Irresistible Empire (2005). | |
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