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Roma, Editrice coop. UTOPIA, 1986-
Seeing the Obstacle, 1993, n. 17
BONO Paola-CHIURLOTTO Vania
An end and a beginning, pp. 2-8
EDITORIAL, Seeing the Obstacle, pp. 9-13
BIONDI Annalisa
Being one: between authority and power, pp. 14-17
SPINELLI Simonetta
Let me give you an example, pp. 18-21
MICHETTI Maria
The many colours of female freedom, pp. 22-32
CAVARERO Adriana-AGORNI Mirella
Gulliver's women, pp. 33-39
BUTTAFUOCO Annarita
For Flo Westoby, pp. 40-41
CHIURLOTTO Vania (edited by)
Women like us, pp. 42-67
BONO Paola - CHIURLOTTO Vania, An end and a beginning, pp. 2-8
The collective who has acted as editorial board since 1986 traces the story of the last year: of the political crisis and of the discussions - on the internal dynamics of the group and on its position in the context of women's politics - which have resulted in a new series of the journal. We have taken stock of our differences and analysed our conceptions of the journal: as a consequence, not all the members of the collective are staying on.
EDITORIAL, Seeing the Obstacle, pp. 9-13
A female subject exists: she is aware of herself, she is responsible for herself. Her aim is her freedom, and she perceives as an obstacle what hinders her. But identifying the obstacle, and consequently choosing one's objectives and strategies, can produce different political practices.
The editorial analysed some limitations and weaknesses of the so-called politics of rights or of citizenship. It also examines the difficulty of explicitly informing all the relationships of everyday life with that experience of female authority whose necessity is assumed in order to give meaning and strength to a gendered interpretation of the world.
BIONDI Annalisa, Being one: between authority and power, pp. 14-17
Reflecting on her experience as an emancipated working woman, the author poses some political questions. How does a female subjectivity position itself in a historically complex situation? How can one maintain a unified point of view when one is confronted with the many challenges, the multiple languages or codes of today's metropolitan life?
The will to express the complex experience of competence and responsibility in one's work is often interpreted by men - and by some women as well - as a desire to be admitted into, and a will to belong to, the male symbolic. But other interpretations should be possible.
SPINELLI Simonetta, Let me give you an example, pp. 18-21
The author uses two (real) characters to set forth her thesis as though telling a story: the story of a teacher and of her relationship with her students - a girl, in particular.
There is, Spinelli says, a lack of female authority i.e. the authority of a collective subject which would give us back "the awareness of a link between the materiality of my life and of her (the student's) life within a same area of meaning". We have lost the capacity to give examples and the will to listen to one another. "But if listening is not a need, creating a collective authority becomes of little importance".
MICHETTI Maria, The many colours of female freedom, pp. 22-32
Is it possible, with regard to immigrant women, to overcome an attitude of sheer solidarity towards them as a sociality disadvantaged group, in order to develop an attitude which would allow us to recognise their strength as protagonists of significant moves in the process of female freedom? The author suggests the opportunity of taking this question as a starting point for a collective research, and illustrates her proposal with reference to the experiences of some immigrant women in Italy.
CAVARERO Adriana-AGORNI Mirella, Gulliver's women, pp. 33-39
In this section of the journal, a feminist scholar of some standing introduces a younger scholar: here the philosopher Adriana Cavarero presents an article on Jonathan Swift's conception of women by Mirella Agorni, a student of English literature with whom she has a reciprocally fruitful intellectual relationship.
BUTTAFUOCO Annarita, For Flo Westoby, pp. 40-41
Memories of an editor of the review's first series who recently died, with a short profile of her life, her interests and her contribution to the review.
CHIURLOTTO Vania (edited by), Women like us, pp. 42-67
En 1944, in Southern Lazio, thousands of women were raped by the Moroccan soldiers enlisted in the French army. Drawing upon a dissertation submitted at Rome university by Concetta Venditti, the documentation presented here - interviews, parliamentary proceedings, etc. - retraces the history of those months, as well as the women's post-war struggle to be officially acknowledged and indemnified as war victims.
Looking back on those events can help a collective
attempt to elaborate a political response towards the different - but in some
aspects similar - reality of mass rape in former Yugoslavia.