European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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you would have to carry what you learned as a woman at home into a new house, in a new family.
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However, all you were supposed to do was to be a good wife in your new life,
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know how to mend your husband’s pants and how to make socks for him.
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That was the current opinion at the time.
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As I finished school I started to work in the fields.
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In the winter, when it was snowing, I would go to the nuns to learn how to sew and patch.
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They wouldn’t teach us embroidering: that was something for the children of the wealthy.
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We simply learned to darn clothes, to put patches on the knees
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or on the bottom of the trousers, and so on.
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Family, social and political context
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My name is Giacomina Castagnetti.
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I always accept when I’m asked to talk about my life.
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Not because I think it's very important, or interesting, or even unique, but because I’ve lived
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through the darkest times of Italy’s history.
through the darkest times of Italy’s history.
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I was born in 1925, in Roncolo di Quattro Castella, in a large family of sharecroppers.
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I was the youngest in the family, coming after six brothers and a sister.
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I was born three months after my father died. My mother was left a widow with eight children.
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We have always been a very close-knit family.
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As a woman, the law didn’t allow my mother to be the head of the family.
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So she couldn’t hold parental authority over the children.
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