Introduzione
Anna Bravo e Giovanna Fiume
Noi e la violenza. Trent’anni per pensarci
Anna Bravo
Rethinking the 1970s. Violence thirty years later
This article points out that one of the reasons for the dwarf of historical
work on neo-feminism is the lack of analysis on the relation between feminism
and violence in the Seventies. I have investigated these issues in two areas: on
the one hand the campaign for the de-penalization of abortion, on the other the
political demonstrations and the assaults on factory supervisors and neo-
Fascists from leftists radical groups. Concerning abortion the feminist movement
often simplified the complex experience of women, while it was totally
ignored the issue of the physical suffering of the fetus that recent studies in
physiology and pre-natal and neo-natal psychobiology claim starting from the
17th week. On the second issue, although many women were part of both political
demonstrations and violent assaults, feminists have simply underscored the
dogma of women’s opposition to violence. In the past thirty years the debate on
women’s responsibility for the political climate and behaviors of that time has
been almost non-existent. The author urges more scholarly research on this peculiar
problem both within the framework of that period and in relation to other
topics and other ways to recount political violence
Cattoliche e cattolici di fronte all’aborto e il mutamento degli equilibri della Repubblica
Paola Gaiotti de Biase
Catholics women and men confront abortion: the
changing balance of the Italian Republic
The essay argues that women’s votes and their political choices were
crucial in determining political outcomes and social developments in the
history of the Italian Republic, since its foundation in 1946. More
specifically, the article studies the main social and political changes which
took place in Italy in the 1970s, namely secularisation of social life, the
spreading of the feminist movement and the political challenges on divorce
and on abortion, as well as the way they were addressed by catholic women
and men. The defeat of the democratic catholic movement which took place
over that period prompted a change in the political landscape which is yet
ongoing.
Femminismo/femminismi: appunti per una storia da scrivere
Elda Guerra
Feminism/feminisms: notes for a future history
The starting point for this article is a survey on the 1970s feminist movement
literature from which it emerges that this movement has lacked full
historiographical attention. The core of the study is the Italian case, although
with reference to the international context. This article takes into consideration
certain historiographical issues, starting from an investigation of the
meaning to ascribe to the phrase “feminism in the 1970s”. The first issue
concerns the relation and the differentiation between feminism, meant as the
political expression of women’s subjectivity, and the social movements of the
Sixties and Seventies, with a focus on the facts of 1968. The second centers
on the question of the transformation of feminism itself in the course of the
Seventies and Eighties, mapping the different phases that have taken the
history of contemporary feminism beyond the Seventies. In this framework
another issue becomes relevant: the relation between feminism and its many
offspring shows that there is not only one feminism and that this movement
has been characterized by multiple and different outcomes.
«Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo»: l’epica dei movimenti tra storia e memoria
Emmanuel Betta e Enrica Capussotti
«The good, the ugly and the bad»:
the epic of the Seventies between history and memory
This intervention addresses Italian political and social movements of
1970s from three main angles: the function of the "1970s generation" and its
testimonies in shaping the reconstruction of those movements; the official
memory of that period; the role of political violence in defining the conflicts
as well as their legitimacy as objects of historical analysis. In doing these, we
mainly use films and novels which, in 2003-2004, have imposed themselves
as the main vehicles to open a debate on Italy's 1970s history and memory.
Cinema and literature show the sensibility of cinema goers and novel readers
towards the mentioned topics and they anticipate the shared necessity to
reopen in historical terms the reflections on conflicts, ideologies and
violence.
Tina Merlin giornalista
Mario Isnenghi
Forum: Modelli di omosessualità
a cura di Alessandra Pescarolo