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Articles for DWF
The didactic, the mother and Venus, 1991, n. 15, pp. 9-16
The author probes into a query which originates from her scientific and didactic experience - she is a historian, a researcher of Modem History at the Political Science Department of the University of Catania - as well as from her own personal and political background: how to transfer knowledge and meaning, how to construct political relationship, in a situation which is asymmetric; asymmetry of knowledge and power, and in a context which is no longer the feminism of the 70's.
Baeri identifies in the consciousness of self in real motherhood - as opposed to the plain biological fact on the one hand as well as to a quick leaf into symbolic motherhood on the other hand - the event which consents to elaborate possible answers. Admission of the other, recognition of oneself, se-duction qualify the maternal body as a place of birth of the first borderline between two subjects.
The glance of Venus - the squint look which identifies at the same time the same and the different, which sexualises relationships, which prompts at responsibility towards the self and at the world, is (according to the author) what allow to be "freely and respectfully seductive".
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Ties and knots, 2000, n. 48, pp. 43-56
The author traces Annarita Buttafuoco's personality, a knowledge originating in an intense friendship, as well as in political and scientific collaboration.
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Books reviewed by DWF
BAERI EMMA, I lumi e il cerchio, Roma, Editori Riuniti, 1992
rev. by Paola Bono, 1992, n. 16, pp. 54-56
BAERI Emma - FICHERA Sara (edited by), Inventari della memoria - L'esperienza
del Coordinamento per l'Autodeterminazione della Donna a Catania (1980-1985),
Collana Letture d'archivio, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2001
rev. by Vania Chiurlotto, 2003, n. 1, pp. 100- 102