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[Projects, Project Making], 1986, n. 2, pp. 29-30
The author, a journalist on the "Noi Donne" editorial board, declares her total lack of interest at present for the collective subject in its generality and for the reasoning the questions further on the whole. She is now interested in issues concerning commercial sex (prostitution, pornography, sexual industry in general) and, insofar as it is possible, the encounter with women who explicitly practice it.
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Debate [Trial: let's listen: two meetings on politics], 1992, n. 16, pp.
7-23
Two encounters took place in December 1991 and February 1992 in the review's headquarters. The debate occurred in two moments, of which an account is given here synthetically but, on the whole, accurately. Elena Gentili, Ida Dominijanni, Annamaria Crispino, Maria Luisa Boccia, Annalisa Biondi, Roberta Tatafiore, Alessandra Bocchetti, Paola Masi, Vania Chiurlotto, Paola Bono, Marina Pivetta, Tilde Capomazza, Mariella Gramaglia, Rosanna Marcodoppido, Luciana Viviani, Rosetta Stella took part in the debate.
The principal issues were: the relation between social change and the creation of a female symbolic, in the connection of political practice and political action; the importance of language and of the reached, possible, necessary levels of comunication; the problem of the collective subject's possible residual quality, with the reasons which may create it and the ways of avoiding it by once more extending confrontation within the feminist community and beyond.
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Poltergeist, 1996, n. 29, pp. 6-13
Happiness happens. How and how much can we relate the degree of freedom which happens to politics? This is Tatafiore's question, which she looks at very subjectively, and yet with a full understanding of the questions all women face in our time, marked as it is by the end of the symbolic patriarchal order - which does not mean "the end of market economy, of world-wide competion, of capitalist homologation, with all the consequences in terms of unhappiness brought about by this situation".
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BIONDI Annalisa - TATAFIORE Roberta, Check mate, 1999, n. 44, pp. 20-25
Biondi interviews Tatafiore. What is feminism's legacy for the third millennium? Can the culture and politics of feminism adequately face the challenge of the ongoing political and social reorganisation and the ideology which is behind it? In a context totally different from those in which the feminism of the 60's was born and its political practices then lived on, the answer given by Tatafiore is clear: feminism is over and there is no legacy to fight for or to bet upon.
Thirty years of feminism have given birth to a new female liberty, in a situation now dominated by open market and free trade ideas; they have permitted the creation of relations between/ among women in very different fields and with different modalities, both affective and utilitarian.
In a "globalised" society, there is a diffused expectation that women can say something new and of great importance in and for politics. But such an idea relies upon a supposed moral superiority, not upon a real fruitfulness of political relations between/among women.
According to Tatafiore these three elements are only apparently related to the original feminist separatism, because in fact they are not able to elaborate a critique of the socio-symbolic system, nor are they able to settle or to interpret the crisis in the relationship between the sexes due to the end of patriarchy.
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Books reviewed by DWF
TATAFIORE Roberta, Sesso al lavoro, Milano, il Saggiatore, 1994
rev. by Simonetta Spinelli, 1995, n. 26-27, pp. 108-110