Elisa Majer Rizzioli (1880-1930), was an Italian politician of the National Fascist Party (PNF).

She was born in Venice to a rich Jewish merchant and a noblewoman. In 1904 she married the public notary Niccolo Rizzioli.

She served as the President of the Fascist state women's organization, the Fasci Femminili, between 1919 and 1926.

In the first years of Fascism, the position of women was ambivalent, and Mussolini promised Elisa Majer Rizzioli to introduce women's suffrage.[1] He did introduce municipal women's suffrage in 1925, but abolished free elections in 1926.

Elisa Majer Rizzioli fought for the Fascist women and Fasci Femminili to be autonomous, a demand which was defeated in 1924 and resulted in the ultimate elimination of women from true influence in the Fascist Party.[2] In 1926, Majer Rizzioli was removed from her post by Roberto Farinacci and replaced by Angiola Moretti.

Elisa Majer Rizzioli founded the magazine Rassegna femminile italiana in 1925, which was the magazine of the Fasci Femminili. She continued as the editor of the Rassegna femminile italiana also after she was deposed as leader of the Fasci Femminili.

References

  1. ↑ de Grazia, V. (1992). How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922–1945. USA: University of California Press.
  2. ↑ de Grazia, V. (1992). How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922–1945. USA: University of California Press.
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