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donnawomanfemme
Roma, Editrice coop. UTOPIA, 1986-
Notes on freedom, 1996, n. 29
EDITORIAL, Notes on freedom, pp. 2-5
TATAFIORE Roberta
Poltergeist, pp. 6-13
MARINO Annalisa
The fantasy of freedom, pp. 14-20
CHIURLOTTO Vania
Listening Beijing, pp. 21-25
GIOVANNONI Monica
Lucrezia: ancient history, an old story, pp. 26-40
CAPOMAZZA Tilde
In memory of Maria Teresa Morreale, pp. 41-49
MORREALE Maria Teresa
Malina, or the imposition on the female, pp. 49-63
CAMBONI Marina
A conversation with Amelia Rosselli, pp. 64-83
EDITORIAL, Notes on freedom, pp.
2-5
Among the questions posed by the editorial board are the contradictory links between freedom and necessity; the discontinuous and difficult relationship women experience in acting their freedom; the complex feelings which inhabit this daily exercise. A misunderstanding which must certainly be solved is the freedom should necessarily be a passport to happiness.
To live our freedom with greater ease and lightness, the epistemological fracture produced by the female/feminist subject must be further affirmed; also, we need to be able to count on "women of high learning who in different fields can and should question and overcome an idea of competence as membership of an oligarchy".
TATAFIORE Roberta, Poltergeist, pp. 6-13
Happiness happens. How and how much can we relate the degree of freedom which happens to politics? This is Tatafiore's question, which she looks at very subjectively, and yet with a full understanding of the questions all women face in our time, marked as it is by the end of the symbolic patriarchal order - which does not mean "the end of market economy, of world-wide competion, of capitalist homologation, with all the consequences in terms of unhappiness brought about by this situation".
MARINO Annalisa, The fantasy of freedom, pp. 14-20
According to the author, there is a real possibility that the age-old role assigning women the task of creating and supporting "the harmony of the world" can be reproposed, in spite of emancipatory policies and feminist practices.
Marino argues for a "horizontal" meaning of freedom as eleuteria, a relational experience which has its founding space in political exchange between women. To represent what happens to/among women, "we still lack adequate narrative criteria, so that gains and losses, advantages and disadvantages, happiness and unhappiness, could take on a new form and a new meaning, yet to be decoded".
CHIURLOTTO Vania, Listening Beijing,
pp. 21-25
The author reflects upon the Beijing Conference as a gendered event, focusing upon the political subjects who have created it and produced its sense. Beijing has taught us that all over the world there are now women who, no matter how terrible their situation, do not think of female freedom as separated from the transformation of reality. Female freedom does not come "after politics", economic, structural changes, not any more.
GIOVANNONI Monica (introduced by BONO Paola), Lucrezia: ancient history,
an old story, pp. 26-40
In this section of the journal, a feminist scholar of some standing [Paola Bono] introduces a younger scholar; this paper, by a very young scholar indeed (Giovannoni is only 23 and still an undergraduate), analyses Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece making use of both a linguistic and an historicist perspective.
The author highlights the construction of femininity through metaphors (wax, soil) assigning women a subordinate position, and she links such a construction to the social and legal organisation of the Roman world.
CAPOMAZZA Tilde, In memory of Maria Teresa Morreale, pp. 41-49
The author, one of the review's founders, recalls Maria Teresa Morreale's life and personality, their friendship, her contribution to DWF's first years, up to her illness and death.
MORREALE Maria Teresa, Malina, or the imposition on the female, pp. 49-63
An essay published in the first issue of "DWF" on October 1975 is here reproduced in honour of the scholar and contributor.
CAMBONI Marina, A conversation with Amelia Rosselli, pp. 64-83
In February 1981 the great poet Amelia Rosselli, who died a suicide only a short time ago, opened the first poetry workshop of the women's cultural centre "donnawomanfemme"; Marina Camboni was then the president of the centre.
"This text - born out of that experience - is almost an autobiographical narrative; it moves through the life and artistic itinerary of a women who holds a special place in contemporary Italian literature. […] Retrieving the words of that conversation, now that she is gone, has been like discovering and accepting an inheritance".