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Contradictions and the Re-Invention of One’s Own Role: The Publishing House Scritti di Rivolta Femminile in the Life/Work of Carla Lonzi

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Female Cultural Production in Modern Italy

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Feminist Carla Lonzi’s diary, Taci, anzi parla. Diario di una femminista, includes topics regarding the relationship that feminist women had with the world of work in the 1970s. My chapter questions how Lonzi’s choices intertwined the search for autonomy and independence (including economic), feminism and self-awareness, and the rejection of behaviors and roles historically linked to institutionalized systems of work and power. Through critical readings of her writings and the testimony of women who struggled with choosing forms of paid work, I suggest that work for women was a horizon of autonomy and construction of subjectivity. Mothers, wives, women who take care of each other, creativity at the service of a universal right to work, independence, and recognition: Lonzi’s unprecedented ideas are still relevant today.

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    For an account of operaismo and Silvia Federici and Mariarsosa Dalla Costa, see Maurizia Boscagli’s essay in this volume. Lonzi’s anti-Hegelian, anti-Marxist and anti-psychoanalitical approach was also anti-operaismo. She saw these as obstacles to the search for female subjectivity and wished to separate from rather than oppose such patriarchal structures.

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  1. Università di Roma, “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

    Carla Subrizi

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    Sharon Hecker

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    Catherine Ramsey-Portolano

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Subrizi, C. (2023). Contradictions and the Re-Invention of One’s Own Role: The Publishing House Scritti di Rivolta Femminile in the Life/Work of Carla Lonzi. In: Hecker, S., Ramsey-Portolano, C. (eds) Female Cultural Production in Modern Italy. Italian and Italian American Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14816-3_15

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