Articles for DWF
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Articles for DWF
After "unhappiness": reconstructing a route, 1979, n. 10-11, pp.
174-179
The author traces the different meaning of the term "solidarity" through the years, in the different phases and practices of feminism. The landing point, after having abandoned the duties of egalitarian solidarity, implies the appreciation of differences and nuances, beyond schematisms. She briefly analyses how feminist practice recognized and refused power, unveiling it as seduction; now "a precise criticism must be made of the forms power assumes, reconstructing them as they turn out in the space offered by knowledge, politics and the body".
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CALEFATO Patrizia - ONORATI Maria Giovanna, Erotic body and utopia; figures
of change in M. Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale", 1998, n. 39-40, pp.
29-38
In this section of the journal an established feminist scholar (Patrizia Calefato) introduces a younger scholar. M. Giovanna Onorati discussed Atwood's novel as a text which "through a visionary and poetic language becomes the site where a signifying body can appear, creating the conditions for a female and utopic sense constructing process".
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Reviews for DWF
PROKOP Ulrike, Realtà e desiderio: l'ambivalenza femminile, Milano,
Feltrinelli, 1978
rev. by Patrizia Calefato, 1979, n. 10-11, pp. 224-226
ZACCARIA Paola, A lettere scarlatte. Poesia come stregoneria, Milano, Franco
Angeli, 1995
rev. by Patrizia Calefato, 1996, n. 29, pp. 95-98
WANDRUSZKA Marie Luise (edited by), Scrivere il mondo, Torino, Rosenberg
& Sellier, 1996
rev. by Patrizia Calefato, 1997, n. 33, pp. 90-93