Italian Feminist Theory and Practice

Italian Feminist Theory and Practice
Author: Graziella Parati
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2002
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780838639597

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There follow essays by Carol Lazzaro-Weis, Lucia Re, Luisa Muraro, Adriana Cavarero, Lea Melandri, and Teresa de Lauretis, in which the authors explore the concept of sexual difference, female authority, relational identity, gendered roles, and homosexual desire in its relation to heterosexual normativity. The volume brings Italian feminist theory squarely into the arena of the most important contemporary feminist debates, revealing both its connections to and disjunctions from more dominant French and North American theories and practices."--Cover.

Women and the Reinvention of the Political

Women and the Reinvention of the Political
Author: Maud Anne Bracke
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2014-07-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 131767412X

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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 as transnationally connected. Emerging in a society that was both characterized by traditional gender roles, and a microcosm of radical political projects in the wake of 1968, the feminist movement was able to transform the lives of thousands of women, shape gender identities and roles, and provoke political and legislative change. More strongly mass-based and socially diverse than its counterparts in other Western countries at the time, its agenda encompassed questions of work, unpaid care-work, sexuality, health, reproductive rights, sexual violence, social justice, and self-expression. The case studies detailing feminist politics in three cities (Turin, Naples, and Rome) are framed in a wider analysis of the movement’s emergence, its transnational links and local specificities, and its practices and discourses. The book concludes on a series of hypotheses regarding the movement’s longer-term impacts and trajectories, taking it up to the Berlusconi era and the present day.

Legal Feminism

Legal Feminism
Author: Anna Simone
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2022-09-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1000684733

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The volume offers an overview of the theories and practices of Italian legal feminism, presenting both the main themes addressed and the main protagonists of Italian feminist legal theory. The book is divided into two parts. The first is dedicated to deepening crucial issues that directly concern women’s knowledge and lives from a feminist perspective, such as the interconnection between law, rights and justice; diversity, difference and equality; sex, sexuality and reproduction; citizenship and borders; deviance, criminal matters and security; and victims, victimology, and vulnerability. Each set of thematic issues is analysed by a current Italian feminist legal scholar, who engages with multiple feminist voices in order to emphasise the need for an interdisciplinary approach to law from a feminist perspective. The second part of the book is devoted to outlining the paths of study, research and practice of specific and renowned Italian legal scholars who have provided the foundation for legal feminism in Italy: Letizia Gianformaggio, Tamar Pitch, Silvia Niccolai, and Lia Cigarini. The book thereby offers, for the first time, a comprehensive account of the traditions and trajectories of Italian legal feminism, thus opening up a dialogue with other feminist approaches to law and justice. The book will appeal to scholars in legal theory, critical and sociolegal studies, sociology, gender studies, and critical criminology.

Sexual Difference

Sexual Difference
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1990
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

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A history of feminism and women's rights in Italy. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Off Screen

Off Screen
Author: Giuliana Bruno
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2013-12-17
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1317929128

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This feminist anthology from Italy offers an enriching perspective on cinema studies. Focusing on women’s engagement with political theory and film-making, the book never loses sight of the female experience of cinema. It examines how women have chosen to represent themselves and how they have been represented, and how they deal with the cinematic apparatus, as subjects of production, objects of representation, and spectators. A variety of approaches are offered, ranging from psychoanalysis and semiology to history. With an exhaustive filmography, this anthology of chapters by eminent theorists demonstrates the central importance of recent developments in Italy for the whole spectrum of film and feminist studies.

New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies: Definitions, theory, and accented practices

New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies: Definitions, theory, and accented practices
Author: Graziella Parati
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 1611475325

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New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies. Volume 1: Definitions, Theory, and Accented Practices is a collection of essays that identifies a number of different approaches in cultural studies and in Italian cultural studies in particular. It highlights that history of cultural studies and new developments in the field as well focuses on practicing cultural studies with essays devoted to Italian hip hop culture, postcolonial Italy and queer diaspora, Occidentalism in Japan, Italian racism and colonialism.

Italian Feminist Thought

Italian Feminist Thought
Author: Paola Bono
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 458
Release: 1991-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780631171164

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