Review
This book might properly be called a study in the history of science, in the development of modernist discourse, in the relationship between public and private, in Fascist public policy, in the politics of reproduction, in the sociology of knowledge, or in any of a half-dozen other cutting-edge topics. It is, indeed, all of those, and a solid piece of scholarship to boot. -- Review
Review
This book is at once a study of the emergence of reproduction and welfare as the subjects of the new social sciences and government social engineering in interwar Italy and, at the same time, a history of the constitution of the 'social' as an object of study and intervention. A significant contribution to feminist and cultural studies. (Sylvia Yanagisako, Stanford University )
