Articles for DWF
Books reviewed by DWF
Articles for DWF
An explicit conflict, 1997, n. 34-35, pp. 54-57
According to the author, today one must re-situate oneself historically (of) reality in relation to sexual difference. For this is a passage in history "having as its protagonist an unknown sex, since sexual difference is still outside the accepted interpretative categories". Sexual difference is experienced by each and every women, and yet it escapes interpretation; besides, there are difficulties in turning it unto a fully political question.
Read the abstracts of the whole issue
go up
There is no other way, 2001, n. 4, pp. 41-45
Starting form her own experience, the author discusses the political meaning of women's protests and reactions to the war and explores their effectiveness. The most original and autonomous part of the women's movement shun from simplified positions. Some women believed, and indeed believe, in 'starting from herself', from her own intimate experiences or subjectivity, as the only way to keep alive the feminine difference.
A narrow way still covered. The events of September 11, 2001 show that the revolt is not only against the exclusion from western wealth, but against the technological and mediatic power of the western symbolic capital. Hence, the calls and the declarations against the war are not able to change the rule of the game; they are useless, mainly because they send back the impression of impotence, an unbearable minoritism.
Read the abstracts of the whole issue
go up
Books reviewed by DWF
CIGARINI Lia, La politica del desiderio, Parma, Pratiche, 1995
rev. by Angela Putino, 1996, n. 29, pp. 85-88