Description:
Presents a twenty-first century vision for Italian feminist thought.
Italian feminists of postwar Europe were arguably the most influential group of thinkers and actors to transform the society of late-twentieth-century Italy. Engaging profound issues such as class, labor, and rural and urban disparity, they theorized sexual difference, mounted campaigns such as "Wages for Housework," and shared experiences of the everyday and the extraordinary in literature, film, and theater. Now, a quarter into the twenty-first century, amid a new generation of intellectuals and artists, this collection of essays and critical stories explores ongoing developments in Italian feminist thought, its current debates, and future trajectories. In this volume, some of the most celebrated writers in Italy dialogue with an international cohort of scholars to construct a community for new ideas between intellectuals, artists, and activists. The result is an inclusive multilingual and multicultural narrative about feminist theory and practice that makes the case for a just--and, therefore, feminist--society.
Brief description: Juliet Guzzetta is Associate Professor jointly appointed in the Department of English and the Department of Romance Languages at Michigan State University. She is the author of The Theater of Narration: From the Peripheries of History to the Main Stages of Italy.
Review Quotes:
"Guzzetta and Parati have served up a feast of Italian feminist writing, some of it translated here for the first time. Covering the gamut from care, law, and labor to migration, ecology, and economy to theater, film, and literature, these essays sparkle with embodied intelligence and transnational imagination." -- Nancy Fraser, Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor Emerita of Philosophy, New School for Social Research
"The volume presents a much-needed and extremely rich panorama of contemporary Italian feminist thought. It covers key moments, people, and issues in the recent history of Italian feminism while at the same time providing original and intelligent insights into recent interventions and voices, including important developments in Italian transfeminist and Black Italian perspectives. I believe the volume makes an extremely valuable and important contribution to the field of Italian feminist studies, to Italian studies more generally, and, thanks in particular to its transnational perspective, to gender studies as a whole. As a result, I am convinced the collection will reach a broad international readership." -- Loredana Polezzi, coeditor of Transnational Italian Studies