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FRESCURA Valeria - PUTINO Angela, Equal-unequal, 1994, n. 22-23, pp. 43-51
This section of the journal, named Themis, after the Greek goddess of communal living and assemblies (edited by Angela Putino in collaboration with Giovanna Borrello and Valeria Frescura) is devoted to a philosophical reflection on significant concepts and themes of feminist thought. Here the authors enter the renewed debate on the meaning of equality and difference, as well as on the meaning of politics.
Putino remembers how, as soon as, in a women's group, the sphere of intimity lost its centrality, and the questions focused on the modes of the relationships among-between the women in the group, "there the political event took place". The circle of the assembly is a void which depotentiates strength (bia) and creates a different strength (kratos) located in the common space (koinon).
Frescura reinterprets some foucaultian concepts to envisage, with Weil, a philosophical knowledge linked to the experience of human beings, and able to grasp and reformulate questions in an unprecedented way.
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FORCINA Marisa, Ironia e saperi femminili, Milano, Franco Angeli, 1995
rev. by Valeria Frescura, 1996, n. 29, pp. 98-100