Scuole per lavoratrici, scuole per signorine: le scuole professionali femminili nell’Italia liberale (1878-1914)

The paper analyzes vocational feminine schools in Italy between 1878 and 1914 and points out a dramatic shift occurred during the ’90. Before 1890s, feminine vocational schools were aimed at training perspective manual workers. Eventually, the growing requests for skilled housekeepers modified those schools strikingly.