The article examines how the GDR’s Frauenpolitik and, more generally, the image of the East German socialist woman were received in Italy between the mid-1960s and the late 1980s. The essay explores the relationships between the women’s organisations of the UDI and the DFD, and certain magazines linked to the communist world, as well as those of a more academic nature, focusing also on the reception of the Frauenliteratur. Drawing on a variety of sources, it provides an in-depth analysis of Italy-GDR relations from this peculiar perspective, a subject that has received little attention in historical scholarship to date.
