1st Edition
Women and the Reinvention of the Political Feminism in Italy, 1968-1983
By Maud Anne Bracke
Copyright 2014
256 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
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Routledge
270 Pages
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Routledge
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This is the first in-depth study of the feminist movement that swept Italy during the "long 1970s" (1968-1983), and one of the first to use a combination of oral history interviews and newly-released archive sources to analyze the origins, themes, practices and impacts of "second-wave" feminism. While detailing the local and national contexts in which the movement operated, it sees this movement... Read more
Introduction 1. Contextualising Italian Feminism 2. Women, “Wounded Emancipation”, and the Crisis of Patriarchy (1945-69) 3. Feminism of Difference: A New Movement and Politics (1968-83) 4. Sexuality, Reproduction, and Self-Help Clinics in Rome 5. Work, or the Question That Never Went Away: Trade Union Feminism in Turin 6. Naples: The Unfinished Revolution 7. Feminism, the End of the First Republic, and “Berlusconism” (1980s-90s). Conclusions.
Biography
Maud Anne Bracke is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Glasgow.
