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[Projects, Project Making], 1986, n. 2, pp. 31-34
The author (lecturer at Bologna University, expert in American studies, of the Women's Bookshop of Florence and of Estro publishers) is convinced that lesbianism "is not simply a sexual practice; it's a way of living, impossible to practice without a community".
She then goes on to tell how she has tried, through time, to build different ways of meeting for lesbian women. She dwells on what went on from this point of view within the Women's Bookshop of Florence and on the relationship between her political activity and her academic work.
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Extra-ordinary fictions. Gendre writing, 1991, n. 13-14, pp. 47-62
The author supports the revision of women' s science fiction as the necessity to reconsider this literary genre so as to include the discussion on the relationship between sexes; she sketches the phases of "sexualization" of science fiction caused by the entrance of woman writers with a critical conscience and able to express in writing the experience of a sexual subjectivity. The problem of post-gendre is laid down, that is whether it is possible to destructure the feminine from a feminist position thinking, at the same time, beyond the primary category of oppression.
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BORGHI Liana - CAPELLI Simona, Gertrude Stein's narrations of the self, 1993,
n. 18-19, pp. 48-68
Liana Borghi, literary critic and theorist, introduces Simona Capelli. The author analyses Stein's ways of questioning the established conception of autobiography, continually deferring, dislocating and eluding the promises put forth in the titles of her writings (The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Everybody's Autobiography).
In Stein's case, one ought perhaps talk of "autographs" - to use Stanton's term; they neither narrate a life nor tell a story, but focus on specific features of the subject of representation, through a mode of writing which proceeds by repetition and accumulation.
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Reviews for DWF
DANNA Daniela, Amiche, compagne, amanti. Storia dell'amore tra donne, Milano,
Mondadori, 1994
rev. by Liana Borghi, 1994, n. 24, pp. 132-133
BORGHI Liana - SVANDRLIK Rita (edited by), S/Oggetti immaginari. Letterature
comparate al femminile, Urbino, Quattroventi, 1996
rev. by Monica Giovannoni, 1996, n. 30-31, pp. 101-102