Maria Grazia Rossilli

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The Feminist Movement and the Marxist-Leninist Groups in Italy, 1980, n. 14, pp. 87-102

On the basis of the experience of Marxist-Leninist feminists, Rossilli analyzes the mistakes made by New Left groups (as well as by the "revisionist" Italian Communist Party) in accepting ideas which are a betrayal of true Leninism. A new theoretical-political conception of the revolutionary process is needed, one which sees it as the convergence of liberation movements in a coherent aim towards revolution; it is necessary to overcome the partiality of seeing the contradiction of sex as separated from the contradiction of class.

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Made in Germany, 1997, n. 36, pp. 50-51

The two papers translated and introduced here by Maria Grazia Rossilli - one by a feminist from former DDR (Eva Schäfer), the other by two feminist political scientists from West Germany (Birgit Sauer and Sabine Lang) - were presented at the lOth Berkshire Women's History Conference in 1996: one argues in favour and the other against feminist post-modern theories.

They are especially interesting insofar as they contextualize the issues under discussion within a political assessment of German feminism. The defeats of East German feminists would seem to confirm Sauer and Lang's hypothesis that post-modern theories mirror the fragmentation of feminist political action.

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HIRSCH M. - KELLER Fox (edited by), Conflicts in feminism, New York & London, Routledge, 1990
rev. by Maria Grazia Rossilli, 1992, n. 16, pp. 56-60


DEL RE A. - HEINEN J. (edited by), Quale cittadinanza per le donne? La crisi dello stato sociale e della rappresentanza politica in Europa
, Milano, Franco Angeli, 1996
rev. by Maria Grazia Rossilli, 1996, n. 32, pp. 101-104

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ROWBOTHAM Sheila, The Women's Movement and the Construction of Socialism
sel. and tran. by A. Buttafuoco, D. Lodi e M.G. Rossilli, 1980, n. 14, pp. 6-74

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FINEMAN ALBERTSON Martha, A feminist theory of law: what difference does it make
tran. by Maria Grazia Rossilli, 1994, n. 22-23, pp. 96-124

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SCHÄFER Eva, "We/Us": what does it mean? The act of deconstruction on feminism: meanings produced by postmodernism and deconstruction in the feminist context of East Germany
tran. by Maria Grazia Rossilli, 1997, n. 36, pp. 51-67

SAUER Birgit - LANG Sabine, Postmodern feminism and political action
tran. by Maria Grazia Rossilli, 1997, n. 36, pp. 67-86

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