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4. Alessandra Gissi, ‘Between Tradition and Innovation: Italian Midwives during the Fascist Period’, in Gender, Family and Sexuality, pp. 122–38.
5. Mauro Canali, Le spie del regime (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2004), p. 79.