Articles for DWF
Articles for DWF
Long time, short time, ageless time. Considerations on women's political
history, 1982, n. 22. Suppl., pp. 61-66
The author tries to isolate different criteria with which to interpret women's political movements by resorting to the opposition between the timeless rhythm of everyday survival and the time of event, change, history.
"There are dimensions of women's identity, time and experience which are ignored or compressed by the political project". The history/story/time of the novel seems more suited to represent increasingly interiorized and harder to grasp oppressions, no longer resulting "out of the existence of a binding female destiny and character. Rather, its exact opposite".
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BONACCHI Gabriella - MASI Paola, A dialogue on care, 2000, n. 47, pp. 23-29
During the war, the Italian government used the "humanitarian argument" to justify its military intervention in Kosovo. The construction of consensus was based also on the official involvement of some feminist groups in helping the refugees.
Although the political work with Yugoslavian women pre-existed the Kosovo war, and despite its original intentions, the feminist emphasis on care was paradoxically helpful in shifting public attention from the war to the humanitarian help to refugees.
Through the political analysis of some weak points of the concept of care, the authors try to disentangle the feminist approach from the dominant male approach and to give elements for a broader political discussion.
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The personal is non-political: prevention and profiling, 2003, n. 4, pp.
40-49
As the title suggests, the essay claims the main role of "profiling" for present investigation in different fields. Profiling is the result and the promoting factor of a precise historical process: the present non-political substance of the personal sphere. To explain this process, the author takes a look at the role of science in the criminal justice system.
It focuses on the up-to-date technologies police rely on to apprehend criminal perpetrators and to link them through trace evidence to the crime scenes. A basic premise of the argument is the importance of physical evidence, involving a kind of soon to come (though not yet fully developed) predominance of DNA.
Finally, the author asks two main questions: does the importance of physical evidence belong to the paradigm of bio-politics? and is Bush's preventive war a part of it?
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Reviews for DWF
CLAUDIA MANCINA, Oltre il femminismo. Le donne nella società pluralista,
Bologna, Il Mulino, 2002
rev. by Gabriella Bonacchi, 2002, n. 3-4, pp. 154- 158