Giuliana Nenni
Giuliana Nenni | |
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Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
In office July 1948 – 11 June 1958 | |
Constituency | Bologna |
Member of the Italian Senate | |
In office 12 June 1958 – 4 June 1968 | |
Constituency | Emilia Romagna |
Personal details | |
Born | 26 December 1911 Forlì |
Died | 19 March 2002 Rome | (aged 90)
Nationality | Italian |
Political party | Italian Socialist Party |
Parent(s) | Pietro Nenni Carmen Emiliani |
Occupation | Journalist |
Giuliana Nenni (1911–2002) was an Italian journalist and politician. She served in the Italian Parliament and Senate for the Italian Socialist Party. She was known as the sister of all Romagna’s women.[1]
Early life and education[]
Giuliana Nenni was born in Forlì on 26 December 1911.[2] She was the eldest daughter of Pietro Nenni, leader of the Italian Socialist Party, and Carmen Emiliani.[3][4] Her father was in prison when Giuliana was born.[3] She had a sister, Luciana, who was ten years younger of her.[5]
When her family was in exile in Paris from 1926 Nenni attended the courses on French civilization at the Sorbonne University.[3]
Career and activities[]
Nenni edited a socialist newspaper entitled Populaire in Paris.[3] She joined the Italian Socialist Party in 1934.[3] She and her family returned to Italy after the Fascist rule ended in 1943.[3] In 1944 she involved in the establishment of a leftist resistance movement in Rome, Unione Donne Italiane (UDI).[6] She was a member of the Italy-USSR association which was established by the Italian Socialist Party and the Italian Communist Party in 1949.[7]
In 1948 Nenni was elected to the Italian Parliament for the Italian Socialist Party from Bologna[8] and also, served at the Parliament for the next term.[2] She became a member of the Italian Senate in 1958 and served there for two successive terms.[2] In June 1958 the socialist deputy Luigi Sansone presented a proposal to introduce a divorce law to the Senate in collaboration with Giuliana Nenni which was not supported by the Senate.[9] From 1968 Nenni began to work as the private secretary of her father, Pietro Nenni.[3]
Following the death of Pietro Nenni in January 1980 his daughters, Giuliana and Luciana, established the Pietro Nenni Foundation.[5]
Personal life and death[]
Nenni was not married and had no children.[5] She died in Rome on 19 March 2002.[3]
References[]
- ^ Molly Tambor (2010). "Red Saints: Gendering the Cold War, Italy 1943–1953". Cold War History. 10 (3): 430. doi:10.1080/14682745.2010.494299.
- ^ a b c "Giuliana Nenni" (in Italian). Italian Senate. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Donne e Uomini della Resistenza: Giuliana Nenni". ANPI (in Italian). Archived from the original on 25 October 2020. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
- ^ Molly Tambor (2014). The Lost Wave: Women and Democracy in Postwar Italy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-19-937824-1.
- ^ a b c "E'Morta Giuliana Nenni (2)". Adnkronos. 19 March 2002. Archived from the original on 1 February 2022. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
- ^ Wendy Pojmann (Spring 2005). "Emancipation or Liberation?: Women's Associations and the Italian Movement". The Historian. 67 (1): 76. JSTOR 24452873.
- ^ Virgile Cirefice (2017). "Celebrating the October Revolution? A Socialist Dilemma: France, Italy, 1945-1956". Twentieth Century Communism: A Journal of International History. 13 (13): 8–9. doi:10.3898/175864317822165077.
- ^ "Nenni, Giuliana" (in Italian). Italian Parliament. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
- ^ Mark Seymour (2010). "Steel Capsules and Discursive Monopolies. «Noi donne» and Divorce in Italy, 1945-1965". Storicamente. 6: 8. doi:10.1473/stor77.
External link[]
Media related to Giuliana Nenni at Wikimedia Commons
- 20th-century Italian women politicians
- 1911 births
- 2002 deaths
- Italian Socialist Party politicians
- Deputies of Legislature I of Italy
- Deputies of Legislature II of Italy
- Senators of Legislature III of Italy
- Senators of Legislature IV of Italy
- Daughters of national leaders
- 20th-century Italian journalists
- Italian expatriates in France
- Italian newspaper editors
- Italian women journalists