Italian Feminisms: Transnational Praxes for Today and Tomorrow, Essays and Critical Stories
Co-edited by Juliet Guzzetta and Graziella Parati with close to thirty contributions
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 offered some of the most rigorous, creative, and influential thinking on gendered experience that resonated from the courts to private homes. 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 today dialog with an international cohort of scholars to construct a community for new ideas between intellectuals, artists, and activists. The result is a truly inclusive multilingual and multicultural narrative about feminist theory and practice that makes the case for a just—and therefore, feminist—society.