Research Output per year
Personal profile
Biography
My main research interests lie in women's/gender history and in the history of Italian Fascism. Amongst other topics, I have published on the role of women in the Fascist Party; the history of the rural world; abortion; labour and business history; imperialism; the Fascist mass mobilising organisations; the Italian Resistance; the history of the private sphere; and on representations of motherhood in Italy and its diaspora. My most recent monograph explores the history of Italian women over the course of the twentieth century.
I was Chair of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy from 2006-09 and I am currently Vice-Convenor of Women's History Scotland.
I serve on the Editorial Board of Modern Italy journal and was a founder member of the Editorial Collective of Gender and History journal.
I have held Fellowships at the Einaudi Foundation (Turin), the European University Institute (Florence), IASH (Edinburgh) and Nuffield College (Oxford)
I was the 2019 Federico Chabod Visiting Professor in Contemporary History at the University of Milan
Teaching
Undergraduate
Modern Imperialism and Decolonisation (Level Two)
Making History (Level Three)
Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Europe (Level Three)
Fascist Italy (Level Four)
Postgraduate
History Skills and Sources
Documenting Dissent
Keywords
- DG Italy
- Gender
- Fascism
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Research Output
Confusione terminologica: “femminismo” ed “emancipazionismo” nell’Italia liberale
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
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Group Portrait: the Ispettrici Nazionali of the Italian Fascist Party 1937-1943
Willson, P., Jun 2018, In : Historical Journal. 61, 2, p. 431-451 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
File
La Mamma: Interrogating a National Stereotype
Willson, P. (ed.) & Morris, P., Jun 2018, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 248 p. (Italian and Italian American Studies)Research output: Book/Report › Book
La Mamma: Italian Mothers Past and Present
Morris, P. & Willson, P., 2018, La Mamma: Interrogating a National Stereotype. Morris, P. & Willson, P. (eds.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 1-27 27 p. (Italian and Italian American Studies).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Review of Claretta: Mussolini’s Last Lover by Richard Bosworth, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2017, vii+311 pp., £18.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-300-21427-7
Willson, P., May 2018, In : Modern Italy. 23, 2, p. 227-228 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Activities
Confusione terminologica: “femminismo” ed “emancipazionismo” nell’Italia liberale
Perry Willson (Speaker)16 May 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Women's Lives, Women's Voices
Perry Willson (Organiser), Gail Low (Organiser)2 Mar 2019
Activity: Other activity types › Public engagement and outreach - public lecture/debate/seminar
University of Milan
Perry Willson (Visiting lecturer)1 May 2019 → 22 May 2019
Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution
Difficult Conversations: Thinking and Talking About Women, Genders, and Sexualities Inside and Outside the Academy
Perry Willson (Keynote/plenary speaker)3 Jun 2017
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
‘Remembering (and forgetting) ‘emancipazionismo’. Historians, collective memory and the Italian women’s movement’
Perry Willson (Speaker)23 Nov 2016 → 25 Nov 2016
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Thesis
Second-Wave Feminist Approaches to Sexuality in Britain and France, c.1970-c.1983
Author: Gurun, A., 2015Supervisor: Willson, P. (Supervisor), Johansen, A. (Supervisor), Brown, C. (Supervisor), Bracke, M. (External person) (Supervisor) & Bellavitis, A. (External person) (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy
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The Lass o' Pairts: Social mobility for women through education in Scotland, 1850-1901.
Author: McCall, A. T., 2013Supervisor: Brown, C. (Supervisor) & Willson, P. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy
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