Victoria de Grazia
Professor of History, Columbia University

"Consumer Culture in Cold War Europe:
Reflections on the Exercise of Soft Power"

Thursday, April 24
4:00 p.m.
Pyle Center
(check message board in lobby for room number)

A University Lecture, cosponsored by
The Center for European Studies, and the Departments of
French and Italian, History, and German

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Victoria de Grazia is Professor of History at Columbia University. The focus of her research is mass- and consumer-culture, gender, and the history of family politics. Her research on women in fascist Italy has been very influential in Italian studies, history, sociology, and women's studies. She is the author of The Culture of Consent: Mass Organization of Leisure in Fascist Italy (Cambridge University Press, 1981), and How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy 1922-1945 (University of California Press, 1992). She has co-edited (with E. Furlough) The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective (University of California Press, 1996), and (with Sergio Luzzato) Dizionario del fascismo (Einaudi, 2002). She is currently completing a study of American market culture in twentieth century Europe.