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Theory has cold feet, 1986, n. 1, pp. 91-98
A reflection on the relationship between real experience, emotions and theoretic thought in women's writing. The author retraces the reasons and the contents of her book L'infamia originaria, which in the 70's constituted a theoric mainstay of the Italian feminist movement, with the aim of showing how theory production for a woman is tied to the awareness of her own life experience, to the experience of her own body, in order both to bear it and to he reinforced by it.
Bearing in mind the difficulty women meet in trying to produce theoretic thought, she describes this process as a kind of re-birth, or a form of self-caring which opposes the impossible challenges of one's existence.
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MELANDRI Lea, Come nasce il sogno d'amore. Il gelo, l'estasi e la mestissima
libertà, Milano, Rizzoli, 1988
rev. by Serena Sapegno, 1988, n. 7, pp. 61-63
MELANDRI Lea, Lo strabismo della memoria, Milano, La Tartaruga, 1991
rev. by Paola Masi, 1992, n. 16, pp. 47-48
MELANDRI Lea, Migliaia di foglietti. Mineralogia del mondo interno,
Faenza, 1996
rev. by Serena Sapegno, 1996, n. 30-31, pp. 108-110
MELANDRI LEA, Le passioni del corpo, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 2001
rev. by Manuela Fraire, 2001, n. 50-51, pp. 86-92