Noi e la violenza. Trent’anni per pensarci

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