Patrizia Cacioli holds
a degree in philosophy; she is a journalist, at present directing the Public
Relations Office of a public institution. She has been on DWF's editorial board
since 1986.
Articles for DWF
(edited by), An enterprise for a project, 1990, n. 12, pp. 28-30
Patrizia Cacioli interviews Maria Luisa Moretti, founder and owner since 1977 of the women's bookshop "Al Tempo Ritrovato" in Rome, in order to understand how the economic, political and personal aspects involved in such an enterprise work together. Moretti sees the enterprise - whose great difficulties she confronts realistically - as an instrument to help her realize her personal and political project, i.e. the relation with women, the belief in their and her own value.
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CACIOLI Patrizia - MASI Paola, The paradox of communication, 1994, n. 22-23,
pp. 37-42
The authors, members of DWF editorial board, look at a seemingly secondary problem, i.e. the difficulty a feminist journal often meets when asking an article to women who have achieved important positions, emancipated women who have a high awareness of their own worth and might be sympathetic towards feminism, but who are not personally active in it, not conversant with its debates.
It is a political difficulty; how can this gap be bridged, what relationship must be established in order to communicate the advantage, for such a woman, of a "gendered" reflection on and signification of her experience?
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Saint and blessed women, 1996, n. 30-31, pp. 52-57
Patrizia Cacioli, of the "DWF" editorial board, interviews Rosangela Vegetti, on the criteria and procedures of beatification and canonisation of saint and blessed women.
Drawing upon historical and present day examples, Vegetti argues that "as the social context and the attitudes towards women change, the idea of female saintliness also undergoes a modification; new criteria become possible", a different conception of a woman's 'exemplary life' opens up. "Now the focus is not on heroic motherhood or ascetical virginity, but rather on the integrity, consistency and maturity of one's way of living according to the Gospel".
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F.O.B. [MASI Paola - CACIOLI Patrizia ], The lights of the market, 1996,
n. 32, pp. 39-43
Is the globalisation of the markets "the magna causa of the end of the western model of welfare state and individual nights, or is it a great opportunity, since everybody can take part in a global market?". The article sums up the reasons given for the one and the other position, and proposes an explanation why in our contemporary times the mediation between economics and politics has become more difficult.
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Dribbling, 1997, n. 36, pp. 23-25
The author uses the idea of being "irreducible" to point to a capacity to swerve and dribble the usual political mediations. Otherwise, as it is the case in this phase of Italian politics, "a good government based on the neutrality of the citizen-client-user entails the risk that the symbolical relations between men and women will not be questioned at all".
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For Annarita Buttafuoco, 1999, n. 42-43, pp. 2-6
On the 26th of May, Annarita Buttafuoco, feminist historian and founder of "DWF", died in young age. She is remembered and mourned on behalf of the whole editorial board by those who shared the review's new project with her since 1985 and who still work in it: Annalisa Biondi, Paola Bono, Patrizia Cacioli, Vania Chiurlotto, Paola Masi.
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CACIOLI Patrizia - MASI Paola, Change of Season, 1999, n. 44, pp. 41-46
During the last summer, a debate on the lasting under-representation of women in politics and in the academy took place in some Italian newspapers. The authors analyse the main contributions to the discussion and outline the contents of the controversy. Despite the differences, it is possible to retrace at least two common elements.
First, each proposal originates from a concrete network of relations among women, not from a think-tank or a political party. Second, the likeliness of the end of women's patience in bearing a systematic disadvantage in public life is underlined.
On this last point, the authors propose to go further into the analysis of single cases of conflict and of individual strategies to salve them, instead of rushing into governmental agenda.
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CACIOLI Patrizia - GIARDINI Federica (edited by), The letter A of a still
unknown alphabet, 1999, n. 44, pp. 31-40
Cacioli and Giardini interview Fraire. The actual crisis of women's initiatives has to be related to the denial of two important issues: 1) the obstacles found in transmitting power from woman to woman, 2) the scarce capacity of dealing with conflict among women, which are two requirements for the growth of the political relationship among them.
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CACIOLI Patrizia, Introduction, 2001, n. 4, pp. 2-5
This issue reflects on what happened after September 11, 2001 from the point of view of women's politic. In dialogue with the writings, reflec-tions and practices developed after those traumatic events the proposed articles are organised in two main perspectives: the reasoning around the concept of disloyalty as a figure of the women's reactions to any state politics which turns out to be oppressive against them; the meaning and the effectiveness of women 's political practices against the war.
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This issue enquires on Asian film productions, especially India e China, in order to experience the gaze of some "natwes", some socalled "others" on themselves e on us.
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CACIOLI Patrizia - MASI Paola, In terms of utility, 2005, n. 2-3, pp. 8-11
The authors explore the possibilities of using the concept of ‘utility’ in a feminist perspective. The advantages and drawbacks are considered on the basis of their political experiences. Learning from their personal perception of art, the concept of ‘utility’ is seen as related to ‘utensil’, whose value is based in (dynamic) use.