Ada Gobetti

With her husband Piero Gobetti she contributed to several antifascist magazines, including La Rivoluzione Liberale which was suppressed in 1925 by the fascist dictatorship. Her husband was beaten by fascist squads She was a leader in the Italian resistance movement and she co-founded the female group of partigiane, Gruppi di difesa della donna. After the end of the war, the CLN made her vice-mayor of Turin. In the 1950s she contributed to multiple left-wing and pedagogy publications, including ''L'Unità, Paese Sera and Educazione Democratica''. In 1956 she joined the Italian Communist Party. ==Death and legacy==

She died in 1968 after a life dedicated to democracy and women's rights. On 2 October 1978 she was posthumously awarded the Silver Medal of Military Valour for her role in the anti-fascist resistance movement. In the Florestano Vancini's film The Assassination of Matteotti (1973), Ada Gobetti is played by Manuela Kustermann. == Works ==

;In Italian • Alessandro Pope. Il poeta del razionalismo settecentesco, Bari, Laterza, 1943 • Dai quattro ai sedici anni. Guida ai libri per ragazzi, Torino, Edizioni del Giornale dei genitori, 1960 • Cinque bambini e tre mondi. Torino, SAIE, 1953 • ''Non lasciamoli soli. Consigli ai genitori per l'educazione dei figli'', Torino, La cittadella, 1958 • Diario partigiano. Torino, Einaudi, 1956, 1972 e 1996 • Storia del gallo Sebastiano ovverosia Il tredicesimo uovo, Torino, Einaudi, 1963 • Vivere insieme. Corso di educazione civica, Torino, Loescher, 1967 • Educare per emancipare. Scritti pedagogici 1953-1968, Manduria, Lacaita, 1982 • Piero Gobetti, Ada Gobetti. Nella tua breve esistenza. Lettere 1918-1926, Torino, Einaudi, 1991 ;In English • == References ==