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The Language of Poetry, the Language of the Body, 1981, n. 16. Suppl., pp.
73-81
Is a language of the feminine possible, in other terms is a discourse/representation/self-representation possible outside the male discourse-representation? In her reading of Irigaray, Zamboni finds a two-faceted answer to this question. On the one hand, Irigaray rejects a representation based on male thought - a thought founded in the exclusion of women; on the other hand, she is willing to accept it in the case of women representing themselves.
Regarding the possibility of a language and a representation rooted in and taking into account the body, Zamboni also compares Irigaray's position with those of several other philosophers such as Heidegger, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty.
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The formation of subjectivity, 1989, n. 9, pp. 47-60
Some members of the group of women philosophers "Diotima" have held in 1987 a series of seminars about the formation of subjectivity, investigated in the perspective of a theory of sexual difference. The writings presented here - by Betty Zamarchi, Chiara Zamboni, Giannina Longobardi, Anna Maria Piussi, Anita Sanvitto - are a result of those seminars.
Each with a specific slant, the authors have discussed the following philosophical concepts: assuming gender as the horizon of a female self-representation on the part of women gives symbolic recognition to their being; the idea of female authority as an incarnation of the sacred; differences as they stem from individual life stories and the research of one's own subjectivity in the relation-ship with another woman (in particular, the problems arising in the psycho-analytical relationship).
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The symbolic word creates the existential wealth of birth, 1995, n. 26-27,
pp. 75-79
According to Zamboni, "maternity is not a matter of women's bodies, nor is abortion. Thinking of them as such means confining them in the literalism of biology". To illustrate this assumption, she argues that "the mother's word, woven into images, daydreams, self-reflexive thinking, creates a symbolic site for the child to be born long before birth"; that is why "abortion is a sad, painful experience when a woman has began weaving a texture of words for/about the child to come".
It is a reflection on the symbolic which Irigaray has been working on since 1975, and whose political relevance has been already proven. "Yet, maternity keeps being talked about as a question of the body, of women's bodies".
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Bad Girls Go Everywhere, 1998, n. 39-40, pp. 19-23
Reflecting on the nature and meaning of her relationships with the young women who are her students at the University (but not only on them), the author argues that these relationships "are not immediately political, they become political if we name them as such". She then suggests some hypotheses on the reasons why many women resist such a move.
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Reviews for DWF
KRISTEVA Julia, Eretica dell'amore, Torino, La Rosa, 1979
rev. by Chiara Zamboni, 1981, n. 16. Suppl., pp. 131-133
Books reviewed by DWF
ZAMBONI Chiara, La filosofia donna, Verona, Demetra, 1997
rev. by Federica Giardini, 1999, n. 41, pp. 105-109