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Presents a twenty-first century vision for Italian feminist thought.
Italian feminists of postwar Europe were arguably the most influential group of thinkers and actors to transform the society of late-twentieth-century Italy. Engaging profound issues such as class, labor, and rural and urban disparity, they theorized sexual difference, mounted campaigns such as "Wages for Housework," and shared experiences of the everyday and the extraordinary in literature, film, and theater. Now, a quarter into the twenty-first century, amid a new generation of intellectuals and artists, this collection of essays and critical stories explores ongoing developments in Italian feminist thought, its current debates, and future trajectories. In this volume, some of the most celebrated writers in Italy dialogue with an international cohort of scholars to construct a community for new ideas between intellectuals, artists, and activists. The result is an inclusive multilingual and multicultural narrative about feminist theory and practice that makes the case for a just—and, therefore, feminist—society.
"Guzzetta and Parati have served up a feast of Italian feminist writing, some of it translated here for the first time. Covering the gamut from care, law, and labor to migration, ecology, and economy to theater, film, and literature, these essays sparkle with embodied intelligence and transnational imagination." — Nancy Fraser, Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor Emerita of Philosophy, New School for Social Research
"The volume presents a much-needed and extremely rich panorama of contemporary Italian feminist thought. It covers key moments, people, and issues in the recent history of Italian feminism while at the same time providing original and intelligent insights into recent interventions and voices, including important developments in Italian transfeminist and Black Italian perspectives. I believe the volume makes an extremely valuable and important contribution to the field of Italian feminist studies, to Italian studies more generally, and, thanks in particular to its transnational perspective, to gender studies as a whole. As a result, I am convinced the collection will reach a broad international readership." — Loredana Polezzi, coeditor of Transnational Italian Studies
Juliet Guzzetta is Associate Professor jointly appointed in the Department of English and the Department of Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan State University. She is the author of The Theater of Narration: From the Peripheries of History to the Main Stages of Italy. Graziella Parati is the Paul D. Paganucci Professor of Italian Literature and Language at Dartmouth College.
Acknowledgments
Spectral Thinking
Juliet Guzzetta and Graziella Parati
I. Practices of Solidarity
1. Choreographing Solidarity: Non Una di Meno's Reperformances of Un violador en tu camino
Selby Wynn Schwartz
2. A Marxist Feminist Archive in Practice: Non Una di Meno and the Wages for Housework Campaign
Tania Rispoli
3. "Body-Territory" and the Influence of Social Reproduction Movements from the Global South: Intersectional Reframings of Italian Anticapitalist Feminism
Loredana Di Martino and Amanda L. Petersen
4. Desire and Resistance in Italian Feminist Activism: Il personale politico e il politico personale
Barbara Bonomi Romagnoli and Luana Ciavola, translated by Courtney Quaintance
5. Trans, Women, and Feminists: Diverging and/or Converging Awarenesses
Porpora Marcasciano, translated by Courtney Quaintance
II. Expression and Praxis
6. The Voices of Arrawelo
Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, translated by Courtney Quaintance
7. #oggettodonna, #womanobject
Gabriella Kuruvilla, translated by Graziella Parati
8. My (Long) Feminist Journey
Anilda Ibrahimi, translated by Courtney Quaintance
9. Cultural Work, Political Work
Antonia Caruso, translated by Ashna Ali
10. Magic Child of the Future
Ésperance Ripanti Hakuzwimana, translated by Marie Orton
III. Textual Interpretations
11. Feminism and the Imaginary
Maria Rosa Cutrufelli, translated by Keala Jewel
12. Daughter of No One? Feminist Legacies and Digital Futures in Espérance Hakuzwimana's E poi basta: Manifesto di una donna nera italiana
Emily C. Antenucci
13. Women Making Movies in Italy: A Feminist Take
Bernadette Luciano
14. Oddkin Trouble: Interspecies Families in Emma Dante's Cinematography
Alice Parrinello
15. Sisterhood in Pulp: Italian Neo-Noir and Pulp Female Writers Fight for Revolutionary Genre and Gender Justice
Barbara Martelli
IV. Health and Ecologies
16. Feminism in Italy: An Incomplete Evolution
Shirin Ramzanali Fazel, translated by Marie Orton
17. Writing as Decolonial Tool: A Deconstruction of Stereotypes Around the Female Body in a Journey Through Italian Colonialism
Marilena Delli, translated by Ashna Ali
18. In the Making: The Rise of an Italian Intersectional Subjectivity
Mackda Ghebremariam Tesfau' and Marie Moïse
19. The Legacy of Elvira Banotti's Sfida femminile and the Fight for Abortion Rights
Lucia Re and Francesca Re, translated in part by Marie Orton
20. Gender Identity in Italy: A Transfeminist Analysis
Silvia Calderoni and Martina Molinari
V. Society and Structures
21. Italian Feminism, Politics, and COVID
Bianca Maria Pomeranzi, translated by Keala Jewel
22. Democratizing Care, Caring for Democracy
Giorgia Serughetti, translated by Eleanor Paynter
23. Constitutionalism and Feminist Thought: Intertwining Two Critical Approaches
Laura Ronchetti, translated by Courtney Quaintance
24. Using Language to Fight Social Bias: A Reflection on the Progress of Linguistic Equity in the Italian Language
Sara Galli and Mohammad J. Jamali
25. The Libreria delle donne di Milano and Its Role in the Change in Civilization
Clara Jourdan, translated by Courtney Quaintance
Afterword
Luisa Passerini
List of Contributors
Index