History of women in the Italian Resistance
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The history of women in the Italian Resistance plays a key role for the partisan movement in the fight against fascism during World War II. They fought to regain their country's freedom and justice by holding functions of primary importance.
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Everywhere in Italy, partisan women fought everyday to recover the basic necessities for the sustenance of their companions and transported resources as they were considered less dangerous. There were organized groups of women who carried out anti-fascist propaganda, raised funds and organized assistance to political prisoners and were also engaged in maintaining communications as well as in military operations.
The women who participated in the Resistance were part of organizations such as the Groups of Patriotic Resistance (GAP) and the Patriotic Action Teams (SAP), and also founded Women's Defense Groups and for the Assistance of the Freedom Fighters (GDD), "open to all women from all walks of life, with any political idea or religious faith, who would like to take part in the work of liberation of their homeland and fight for their own emancipation".[1] The Women's Defense Groups and for the Assistance of the Freedom Fighters (GDD) were also intended to guarantee the rights of women, often become heads of families, while their husbands were enrolled in the army. From inside the factories (where they had taken the place of the men engaged in the war), they organized strikes and demonstrations against fascism.[2]