Femminismo/femminismi: appunti per una storia da scrivere

Autore: Elda Guerra
In: Genesis. III/1, 2004
doi:10.1400/78290
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Abstract

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.