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(edited by), Columbian women: present and future, 1975, Year I, n.
1, pp. 111-135
Colombian Women, as women from many other which forces them to devote their entire life to the home and family. In addition to this form of discrimination common to other cultures, Colombian women are highly discriminated against at the economic, legal and political levels. Consequently, they find it difficult to enter into productive processes within a framework characterical by an extremely unstable and insecure labour market devoid of guarantees for both men and women.
But even when the privilege of a certain type of education enables her to aspire to an employment activity, two principal problems arise: 1) psychological conflicts typical of changes in norms and 2) objective difficulties stemming from a society still lacking in social services. The study was carried out by a group of researches of CIAS (Centro de Investigacion y Accion Social) of Bogotà.
Tilde Capomazza translated the text and combined and integrated it with a series of historical, anthropological and primarily socio-political observations with the objective of rendering the notes more understandable to non-Colombian readers. In particular, the condition of women is analysed within a socio-political framework and within the political decisions of the power élite.
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Debate [Who, for whom, how. Scientific research carried out by women], 1976,
n. 1, pp. 3-22
The subject under discussion was scientific research as carried out by women. The participants were the Editorial board of "nuova dwf", Annarita Buttafuoco, Tilde Capomazza, Maria Teresa Morreale, Maria Grazia Paolini, Biancamaria Scarcia, Dora Stiefelmeier, Flo Westoby, and Luciana Di Lello, an Italian feminist engaged in research, was also present.
Leaving aside epistemological consideration, discussion concentrated on the political importance of scientific work - differences arose immediately on the definition of "scientific" - carried out by women; the fact that they are a socially oppressed group working within a set of disciplines almost exclusively elaborated by men, with all the distortions which this involves; on the consequent need to critically examine and often call into question not only the methodologies but even the basic concepts. Underlying the various disciplines. As the participants are all working in the social sciences, the special problems of women working in the "hard" sciences were not discussed.
There was special emphasis on the categorical necessity for a continuing check on sociological researches on women or on the supposed condition of women, both on the aims and on the subjects of these researches. Each speaker described her own special work problems, and spoke of her personal experiences, either in the university or in her field of research. The second part of the discussion was given over to the aims and problems of the journal, to political strategy, to the type of readership, to the appropriate forms and language.
Tilde Capomazza, communications expert, summed up, indicating the links between the journal and the feminist movement, and the journal and all those women who, aware of their oppression, are ready to unite and to struggle.
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Debate [About us and beyond…], 1982, n. 22, pp. 147-153
Different sectors of the editorial board exchange
letters in a moment of crisis of the review's project and of its editing group.
Annarita Buttafuoco and Maricla Tagliaferri underline
the need to reflect on the review's format and its meaning in the present situation
of the women's movement, on its fluctuating between being a scientific journal
and a militant magazine, on its scarcely reactive public, on the failed turnover
both of its editors and of its buyers. The project's stalemate and the growing
hardship of the organization burden are at the same time cause and effect of
a break in the relationships between editors which hinders reflection and reduces
everything to a question of personal relations. In front of all this the writers
propose to find other references for the quarterly's future.
Rosanna De Longis, Donata Lodi and Gabriella
Turnaturi declare they cannot and will not continue to be part of the editorial
board, considering the existing contradictions with the quarterly's direction
and property.
Biancamaria Amoretti Scarcia, Tilde Capomazza, Gemma Luzzi, Maria Teresa Morreale, Dora Stiefelmeier point out that "the quarterly's property" is made up of the group of women who founded the review in 1976 pouring on it ideas, work and energy; some years later they have entrusted the new board with the review's heritage, "without expecting profits, without demanding financial control, without intervening in any way on the review's political line". Involved in the editorial board's crisis which threatened the review's continuity, the quarterly's property met the editors and emphasized its will to grant the above mentioned continuity. It also began a series of encounters with women willing to express a new project, collectively reconsidering the review's political function and the production structure necessary to secure its existence.
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[Negotiation], 1989, n. 9, pp. 23-28
Tilde Capomazza, one of the founders of Dwf, looks at the story of her personal and political relationship with Daniela Colombo - founder of the feminist magazine "Effe", and presently president of AIDoS.
She reconsiders this experience, starting from their common work on a very successful TV program on feminist culture and politics, up to the present, which sees their involvement in a programme concerned with third world women. Such reconsideration takes form in the perspective suggested by the editorial piece which opens this issue. The author talks about her relationship with a woman who has chosen, as the form of political action, "bargaining" with the institutions.
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Project-oriented reading, 1989, n. 9, pp. 61-71
It is the report with which the 'gruppo divulgazione' of the Study Centre Donnawomanfemme has opened on 20th May 1989 a Seminar hold in Rome with the participation of a lot of women operating in the school, libraries, bookshops and political women groups.
In view of the publication of a series of texts spreading the ideas of feminism - issued by Utopia ed. - the authors have been asked to redefine the concept of "publishing" to come to the proposal of "lettura progettuale" as a true form of relation of political practice. "How promoting these renewal processes which, according to a general feminist statement, are feasible only in a conscious relation among women? How doing it by means of a book?" Just to start answering, the authors face the problem of communication, language and consider kinds of series.
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Debate [Trial: let's listen: two meetings on politics], 1992, n. 16, pp.
7-23
Two encounters took place in December 1991 and February 1992 in the review's headquarters. The debate occurred in two moments, of which an account is given here synthetically but, on the whole, accurately. Elena Gentili, Ida Dominijanni, Annamaria Crispino, Maria Luisa Boccia, Annalisa Biondi, Roberta Tatafiore, Alessandra Bocchetti, Paola Masi, Vania Chiurlotto, Paola Bono, Marina Pivetta, Tilde Capomazza, Mariella Gramaglia, Rosanna Marcodoppido, Luciana Viviani, Rosetta Stella took part in the debate.
The principal issues were: the relation between social change and the creation of a female symbolic, in the connection of political practice and political action; the importance of language and of the reached, possible, necessary levels of comunication; the problem of the collective subject's possible residual quality, with the reasons which may create it and the ways of avoiding it by once more extending confrontation within the feminist community and beyond.
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Eyes to See, 1995, n. 28, pp. 71-76
The author - a documentary video-maker with a remarkable experience in this field - who took part in the U.N. Conference and in the Women's Forum in Beijing, reflects on her work in relation to this event. She has realised two documentaries, both for the AIDoS (Italian Association Women and Development): See you in Beijing, about the long preparatory phase which involved scares of women all over the world, and The days of Beijing, about the Forum and the Conference, seen in the light of her own feminist story and experiences.
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In memory of Maria Teresa Morreale, 1996, n. 29, pp. 41-49
The author, one of the review's founders, recalls Maria Teresa Morreale's life and personality, their friendship, her contribution to DWF's first years, up to her illness and death.
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(edited by), Unpublished and interrupted, 2000, n. 48, pp. 6-42
The author introduces the transcription of a 1994 interview with Annarita Buttafuoco by several women of the research center "donnawomanfemme" (Tilde Capomazza, Gigliola Cultrera, Maria Rocchi). Annarita retraces her formative years, the origin of her passion for history, the most important scientifical and political problems she encountered in her reflections over time.
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Reviews for DWF
NAZIONI UNITE, Le donne nel mondo, 1970-1990: statistiche e idee, Roma,
Poligrafico dello Stato, 1993
rev. by Tilde Capomazza, 1993, n. 18-19, pp. 89-91
Translations for DWF
GAYTAN Rosa Sylvia, Women's Work in Mexico. Socio-juridical aspects
tran. by Tilde Capomazza, 1976, Y. I, n. 2, pp. 137-160
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Books reviewed by DWF
CAPOMAZZA T. - OMBRA M., 8 marzo. Storie miti riti della Giornata internazionale
della donna, Roma, Utopia, 1987
rev. by Annalisa Marino, 1986, n. 4, pp. 95-96