Articles for DWF
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Articles for DWF
The woman of the screen, 1978, n. 8, pp. 77-85
Revision of the function of woman as an object of performance and as a presence of creative power in the history of cinema is the subject of this article. On one side woman in cinema deliver a reality extraneous to them, it is, the imagination of man, his symbolical world. On the other side, women, through their professional work give also something of themselves. This is true for the actress as well as for the female film director, even if it happens not always in a conscious way.
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TAGLIAFERRI Maricla - COSTANTINI Silvia - GAGLIASSO Elena, The Place of Hypotheses,
1981, n. 15, pp. 9-27
The 1970's were characterised by a profound change in the basic premises of epistemology and by the need to revise the traditional models of scientific explanation and the cognitive theories connected to them. Within this framework, has feminism produced a cognitive theory?
The article, which is a group effort involving not only the authors but the entire staff of the journal, analyses the principal theoretical conclusions reached by the feminist movement and, in particular, the theory of sexuality intended as a "model" to describe and to explain reality.
The analysis is conducted on two planes that intersect: the "internal" or theoretical one of individual and group efforts by women to achieve a new awareness of themselves; and the "external" or historical one of the political progress of the feminist movement and of individual feminist intellectuals in dealing with cultural institutions.
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Oblivion and memory. An interview to Margarethe von Trotta, 1982, n. 19-20,
pp. 190-196
The interview is linked to the launch of the German director's film inspired by the collective "suicide" in gaol of some members of the Rote Armee Fraktion - a pretext to analyse, as von Trotta says, not so much terrorism as a country, Germany, which constantly removes its past: first Nazism, now terrorism.
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Debate [About us and beyond...], 1982, n. 22, pp. 147-153
Different sectors of the editorial board exchange
letters in a moment of crisis of the review's project and of its editing group.
Annarita Buttafuoco and Maricla Tagliaferri underline
the need to reflect on the review's format and its meaning in the present situation
of the women's movement, on its fluctuating between being a scientific journal
and a militant magazine, on its scarcely reactive public, on the failed turnover
both of its editors and of its buyers. The project's stalemate and the growing
hardship of the organization burden are at the same time cause and effect of
a break in the relationships between editors which hinders reflection and reduces
everything to a question of personal relations. In front of all this the writers
propose to find other references for the quarterly's future.
Rosanna De Longis, Donata Lodi and Gabriella
Turnaturi declare they cannot and will not continue to be part of the editorial
board, considering the existing contradictions with the quarterly's direction
and property.
Biancamaria Amoretti Scarcia, Tilde Capomazza, Gemma Luzzi, Maria Teresa Morreale, Dora Stiefelmeier point out that "the quarterly's property" is made up of the group of women who founded the review in 1976 pouring on it ideas, work and energy; some years later they have entrusted the new board with the review's heritage, "without expecting profits, without demanding financial control, without intervening in any way on the review's political line". Involved in the editorial board's crisis which threatened the review's continuity, the quarterly's property met the editors and emphasized its will to grant the above mentioned continuity. It also began a series of encounters with women willing to express a new project, collectively reconsidering the review's political function and the production structure necessary to secure its existence.
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Reviews for DWF
BALBI Lucia - GAETANO Gloria, Condizioni, Bologna, Zanichelli, 1976
rev. by Maricla Tagliaferri, Y. I, 1976, n. 4, pp. 180-183
Women and Society. An Australian Study, di Sol Encel et al., London,
Malaby Press, 1975
rev. by Maricla Tagliaferri, Y. I, 1976, n. 4, pp. 185-186
Translations for DWF
SPEARRITT Peter, Women in Sidney Factories - 1920 to 1950
tran. by Maricla Tagliaferri, 1976, Y. I, n. 4, pp. 121-147