Teresa Labriola

Teresa Labriola (17 February 1873 – 6 February 1941) was an Italian writer, jurist, and feminist. The daughter of Antonio Labriola, a renowned Marxist thinker, Labriola served as the first Italian woman lawyer.[1]

Teresa Labriola, 1921

Life

From the time she was a student, Teresa Labriola was passionately involved in the nascent Italian feminist movement. Upon graduating, she held the position of Professor of Law at the University of Rome,[2] making her the first female lawyer in Italy.

With the outbreak of World War I, Labriola embraced interventionist and nationalist positions, distancing herself from her family's Marxist convictions and becoming highly critical of socialism and communism.[3]

During the fascist period in Italy before the Second World War, Labriola was one of the regime's most perseverant propagandists, stating that a woman's primary role was to be a mother and that education was secondary.[4] However she eventually became disillusioned with the fascist regime after women became increasingly excluded from public life in Italy. She died in poverty after a long illness.[3]

References
  1. Letizia, Panizza; Sharon, Wood (29 January 2000). A History of Women's Writing in Italy. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521578134.
  2. "Italy's Only Woman Lawyer". The New York Times. 21 July 2012.
  3. Tesoro, Marina (1995). "TERESA LABRIOLA E IL SUFFRAGIO FEMMINILE. FONDAMENTI TEORICI E SOLUZIONI OPERATIVE". Il Politico. 60 (2 (173)): 189–225. ISSN 0032-325X.
  4. de Grand, Alexander (1976), "Women under Italian Fascism", The Historical Journal, 19 (4): 947–968, doi:10.1017/S0018246X76000011, S2CID 159893717


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