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SARACENO Chiara - PANCINO Claudia - SCHNABL Elena, Daughters Women Students
and Comrades…, from personal experience to sociological Theory, 1976, n.
1, pp. 94-125
The school of Sociology at Trento ran a course
in 1975-76 on the relationship between the family and present day capitalist
industrialist society, and at the same time a seminar on the condition of women
was organised. These two articles by Claudia Pancino and Elena Schnabl are an
account of the seminar. As the thirty young women inscribed for the course planned
an analysis of their situations as women and as students, the seminar was limited
to women. A parallel seminar for men had been started but had quickly come to
nothing.
The work fell into two phases. First the students spoke of their experiences under the headings: family background, love life, work, participation in politics, the "future". There followed theoretical discussion on these personal analyses with the aim of drawing the facts together and restoring to each student her personal experience as a part of collective knowledge. A second aim of the seminar was to draw up a questionnaire for a piece of systematic sociological research into women students in sociology.
There is an introduction to the two articles by Chiara Saraceno who holds the Chair of Sociology at Trento. She explains the reasons for this somewhat unorthodox approach and methodology, and the risks involved.
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Being part, being outside, transformations, 1986, n. 4, pp. 27-34
In an autobiographical vein, the author, a sociologist, re-traces her research choices, concerning both subject-matter and methodology, in relation to her belonging to (being part of) the "Griff", a group formed in the 70s by scholars from different parts of Italy, different backgrounds and disciplinary areas, in order to exchange and discuss, among women, their teaching and research experiences.
Of particular interest is the author's investigation of her motives in choosing, as a privileged field of enquiry, "the female story" - a key to the general understanding of social phenomena, and also an expression of a gender-related structure.
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BALBO Laura, Stato di famiglia, Milano, Etas Libri, 1976
rev. by Chiara Saraceno, 1976, n. 1, pp. 146-148