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[Projects, Project Making], 1986, n. 2, pp. 18-23
The author (a philosopher, a lecturer at Verona University, and a member of the Women's Bookshop of Milan) claims that the prevailing tendency to regard women's social endeavours as a way of being together instead of fighting for more significant results is the outcome of a difficulty to adopt a female measure of judgement, of negotiating one's own freedom in the first place with the mother and other women.
On the basis of personal experience in endeavours in which she had a share, the author maintains that what is, now more than ever, needed is "not company, not affection, but female respondance, an enhancing mirror" in forms still to be envisioned. In this sense what is required is a collective subject.
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Commentary to Clarice Lispector's Passion, 1987, n. 5-6, pp. 65-78
Lispector's text is defined as "extraphilosophical", not belonging to the recognised history of philosophical reflection, its underlying thought being as ancient as its expulsion. The philosophical speculation it engenders concerns the theoretical assumptions of a confrontation of woman with a "measure" not defined in relation to male thought; a "divine measure", rooted in the infinity of desire and of the subject's need to exist. The symbology of the cross is re-read in this perspective through a critical re-examination of significant philosophical and literary moments and figures.
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MURARO Luisa - DORIA Francesca, Itineraries of Love in the Thought of Luce
Irigaray, 1995, n. 28, pp. 61-70
Luisa Muraro, philosopher and member of the philosophical community "Diotima" in Verona, introduces a short paper by a young scholar, Francesca Doria. The author retraces the development of Irigaray's thought in its dialectical relationship with both Freud and Lacan; she identifies in "women's love for the mother, a crucial love both for women and men" the crucial step for the modification of the phallocratic symbolic order.
Doria analyses critically the most recent developments of Irigaray's thought, and concludes: "As long as the mother, the origin, remains the obscure site which men confuses with the women, and women abandons for man, a discourse of love is impossible".
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MURARO Luisa - DE VITA Antonia, Margherita Porete 'beguine moult
suffisant' and the Beguine movement of the thirteenth century, 1997,
n. 33, pp. 51-78
In this section of the journal, a feminist scholar of some standing introduces a younger scholar. Here philosopher Luisa Muraro introduces an essay by her student Antonia De Vita, about Margherita Porete, author of Lo specchio delle anime semplici (The Mirror of Simple Souls).
Porete is a Beguine of Dante's time, whose book has been recently "rediscovered" and is considered a masterpiece of medieval mystical literature. It cost the author her life at the stake, where she was burned in 1310 in Paris. De Vita looks at Margherita as a figure of history, at her representation in Lo specchio, and at the "difference" represented by this representation. Thus, she analyses Porete's text, at the same time discussing today's points of view on the female difference of her text.
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A special contradiction, 1997, n. 34-35, pp. 69-73
This section of the journal, devoted to philosophical questions, is edited by Angela Putino. Here Luisa Muraro enters a dialogue with Putino herself and especially with Laura Boella, who in a previous issue had argued her impossibility to signify the fact of sexual difference.
In this paradox - discussing what one maintains cannot be discussed - Muraro sees a more general problem: "lets' try to acknowledge a failure, and not a trite one, of the passage from the fact of sexual difference to thought… To the thought of sexual difference or thought sic et simpliciter?
Only little reflection is needed to see that is not really an alternative: it is the case of both one an the other when it is the case - this is the point - of sexual difference; that is to say, the fact of difference, when one must think and think of it, is a problem".
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MURARO Luisa - SPADACCINI Debora, Politics and mystic in Carla Lonzi's writing,
1999, n. 42-43, pp. 56-75
Luisa Muraro introduces Debora Spadaccini. Spadaccini retraces and underlines the presence in the writings of Carla Lonzi of a number of references to the Bible and the Gospels, especially to the figures of Christ and John the Baptist.
They show Lonzi's interest towards early Christianity and women's religious experience, an interest which should be read in the light of her political passion and of her capacity "to see the religious symbolic as a bridge for her own need to speak out".
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Reviews for DWF
STELLA Rosetta, D'un tratto del tutto. Una femminista alle prese con Dio,
Presentazione di Romana Guarnieri, Genova, Marietti, 2002
rev. by Luisa Muraro, 2002, n. 3-4, pp. 151-154
Books reviewed by DWF
MURARO Luisa, L'ordine simbolico della madre, Roma, Editori Riuniti,
1991
rev. by Paola Bono, 1992, n. 16, pp. 60-61
MURARO Luisa, Lingua materna scienza divina. Scritti sulla filosofia
mistica di Margherita Porete, Napoli, M. D'Auria, 1995
rev. by Paola Masi, 1997, n. 36, pp. 87-91
MURARO Luisa, La folla nel cuore, Milano, Pratiche editrice, 2000
rev. by Rita Corsi, 2000, n. 47, pp. 112-115