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Roma, Editrice coop. UTOPIA, 1986-
Exploring new lands, 2002, n. 1-2
EDITORIAL, Exploring new lands, pp. 2-4
CORSI Rita
A soul on sale. Drug addiction and the search for meaning,
pp. 5-19
SOLDANO Cinzia
Sexy Sex Pistols, pp. 20-33
BUDGEON Shelly
Emergent Feminist (?) Identities. Young Women and the Practice
of Micropolitics, pp. 34-62
MANIA Patrizia
Women, art, art criticism, art history, pp. 63-68
D'IZZIA Agnès
Continuous movements. Feminity, masculinity, society: conceptions
of sexed/gendered Otherness, pp. 69-84
SEQUENZE
CERUTTI GIORGI
Monica
Food and love, pp. 84-91
RILANCI
CIMITILE Anna Maria
Female genealogies, pp. 92-96
MAJOR Melena
A discovery, pp. 97-100
SERRA Fulvia
Listening, pp. 101-104
CAPUANI Monica
Ann-Marie MacDonald, pp. 105-112
Reviews,
pp. 112-122
Abstracts,
pp. 123-125
Authors,
pp. 126
This issue aims at presenting the experiences of some young women in "exploring new lands", following the suggestions of DWF 2001, n. 2-3. The papers were not looked for but found by the editorial board as an answer to their curiosity towards the ways in which female freedom changes and moves in the researches carried out by a new feminist generation.
CORSI Rita, A soul on sale. Drug addiction and the search for meaning,
pp. 5-19
The author reflects upon and puts to work her awareness of sexual difference in a project which envisaged the organisation of a course of philosophy in a public structure aimed at helping drug- addicts (in this case alcoholics) in Tuscany.
Examining the stages
and changes undergone by the project and analysing her relation with the patients,
Corsi highlights some relevant differences between the ways in which experience
dependency, also questioning her own presuppositions and convictions.
SOLDANO Cinzia, Sexy Sex Pistols, pp. 20-33
The British Punk
Movement in Julien Temple's movie on the Sex Pistols' story: the tale of the
male desire for social and political change in Europe in the '70s. In the author's
reading, the reflections of Johnny Rotten, the vocalist of the band, meet the
thoughts of the Italian feminist Carla Lonzi, suggesting that they and their
minds could have met. They didn't - but now this film can be a new opportunity
for sharing the changing experiences of women and men.
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BUDGEON Shelly, Emergent Feminist (?) Identities. Young Women and the Practice
of Micropolitics, pp. 34-62
The article seeks to examine identities young women are producing within late modern social conditions with the aim of exploring these identities in relation to the increasingly fragmented project of second wave feminism.
In order to evaluate whether feminism has maintained intergenerational currency, the article, based upon interviews with 33 young women aged 16-20, discusses ways in which young women are engaging with choices available to them.
The active negotiation of 123identity(ies) requires an examination of the discourses available to the subjects and in this study it is apparent that, while these young women were alienated from second wave feminism, their identities were indeed informed by intrinsically feminist ideals. This contradiction begs the question of what place young women occupy within the increasingly diverse category of "feminism"?
The tension between
second wave feminism and postfeminism and their problematic relationship is
analysed as a problem deriving from difference. Analysis of interview material
is used to argue that the identities under construction allow the young women
to engage in a resistant fashion with the choices they have available at the
microlevel of everyday life.
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MANIA Patrizia,
Women, art, art criticism, art history, pp. 63-68
The author, a young
art critic, rereads the work of some women artists who have been fundamental
in her formation, shaping her way of looking. She underlines the importance
of investing the gendered/sexed body in one's art work, the surplus of meaning
that this creates; a fact whose strength shows itself without necessarily being
spelled out in terms of political awareness and choice.
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D'IZZIA Agnès, Continuous movements. Feminity, masculinity, society:
conceptions
of sexed/gendered Otherness, pp. 69-84
The article aims at analysing the continuous transformations undergone by the concepts of "femininity" and "masculinity", showing how the meaning of such transformations is related to the changes in society at large; such an analysis is then utilised in order to rethink sexual difference according to a complex model in accordance with the ipercomplexity of contemporary society.
Retracing and reconsidering some recurring themes in the reflection on the gendered/sexed body and on the Otherness of men's and women's thought in the last twenty years, the author underlines how physical appearences change in time, in a perpetual transformation.
The purpose here
is to highlight the complexity of this spectrum's form, of its social meanings,
articulated with the complexities of the 'figures of woman-being and the man-being',
and of sexual Otherness in the 90's.
CERUTTI GIORGI Monica, Food and love, pp. 84-91
Clarice Lispector's art of writing, with its appealing and misleading simplicity, creates in her short stories a philosophical dimension, giving access to the very souces of thought. It is the case of La spartizione dei pani - where the "banal" event of a meal reveals both the most sacred ritual and the most impersonal of human-animal gestures.
The text creates
for the author of this comment associations, images, new ideas, in a complex
play of co-texts and con-texts which shows the symbolical movement of different
and always possible readings.
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RILANCI
CIMITILE Anna Maria, Female genealogies, pp. 92-96
The author reflects
on "Genealogies of the present" (DWF
2001, n. 1) in order to question some issues about the relation between
feminists belonging to different generations. The centrality of the mother-real,
metaphorical, symbolic, and often all the three together - characterises the
search and redefinition of a female identity which subverts the male patriarchal
constructions of Woman.
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MAJOR Melena, A
discovery, pp. 97-100
In this letter to the editorial board, the author - a young woman with "little or no knowledge of feminism" - communicates her emotional reaction to "Without peace" (DWF 2001, n. 4), a reaction rooted in her own rebellious story as the daughter of an Italian Jewish mother and an Italo-American father fully integrated in and identified with the USA.
The importance
of the words and thoughts of other women - the women who wrote the articles
in that issue, and the women mentioned in those articles - helped her to clarify
her own thoughts regarding both the attack to the Twin Towers and the ensuing
war, and a possible way of positioning herself.
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SERRA Fulvia, Listening,
pp. 101-104
Reflecting on the
article "From the voice of
other women" by Paola Masi and Federica Giardini (DWF
2001, n. 4), the author analyses and questions her own reaction to the events
of September 11 th 2001 and of the following months. Concepts such as belonging,
exclusion and inclusion, being an outsider, sexual difference, take on changeable
meanings according to the movement of one's specific experience.
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CAPUANI Monica,
Ann-Marie MacDonald, pp. 105-112
Ann-Marie MacDonald is a Toronto-based writer and actor. Her play Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) won the Governor General's Award for Drama, the Chalmers Award for Outstanding Play and the Canadian Authors' Association Award for Drama.
She won a Gemini
Award for her role in the film Where the Spirit Lives and was nominated for
a Genie for her role in I've Heard the Mermaids Singing. Her best-seller, Fall
On Your Knees, was published in the New Face of Fiction program in 1996 and
translated in the Italian language in 1999.