In terms of utility by Patrizia Cacioli and Paola Masi, pp. 8-11
The authors
explore the possibilities of using the concept of ‘utility’ in
a feminist perspective. The advantages and drawbacks are considered
on the basis of their political experiences. Learning from their personal
perception of art, the concept of ‘utility’ is seen as related
to ‘utensil’,
whose value is based in (dynamic) use.
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Spacial rhythms by
Paola Masi and Valentina Russi, pp. 12-19
A reflection
on the political meaning of «making space» in relation to
art, focusing on the political potentialities of reception. Going beyond
an idea of space as «public space», in an attempt to think space
as the
mobile site of invention, where e-motions find their rhythms and memory
takes form – where one learns from the body, and the energy stemming
from conflicts can be discovered and controlled.
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Criminal happiness by
Laura Fortini, pp. 20-28
The author
focuses on the meanings of «reato» (crime, criminal offence),
offering several examples of the crime of addition and change
in literature and the visual arts, and underlying the happiness involved
in committing them as part of a political project, and in recognizing
them as such.
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The beauty of language by Monica Farnetti, pp. 29-33
Anna Maria
Ortese dedicated her Il porto di Toledo to Anne Hurdle, a
young money faker in the 19th century, because she, who committed a
«crime of addition and change» never reached «expression».
Ortese
commits the crime herself in bringing to the «Kingdom of Expressivity
» all human and non human beings who have no words and no
voices. Expressivity, and literature succeeding in it, is therefore an
addition to reality, involving as a side effect – «per soprammercato»
–
an unexpected happiness.
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The force and the grace. About a femininisation of force by Federica
Giardini, pp. 34-40
Some selected
moments of the movie Kill Bill by Quentin Tarantino –
Uma Thurman’s fight in the kitchen, her recovering from paralysis,
getting
out of her grave – are the starting point to think about new expressions
of womanly force nowadays, different from power and from violence.
It is the clue for a new symbolical space and the political practices
it requires.
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Fashions of Living by Giuliana Bruno, pp. 41-57
The Italian
translation of an essay on intersections of film theory, modern
architecture and fashion through the experience of an urban
voyageuse. A window on the architecture of living, of its maps and
links with Body, House, Gender, Emotion, Travel, Movie, Texture. A
fruitful journey – a dwelling voyage – around the space between
the
Wall and the Screen.
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Alba de Céspedes – exercises in female freedom by Monica
Giovannoni introduced by Laura Fortini, pp. 58-83
Giovannoni
draws upon her research in some hither to untapped archival
sources to underline the search for freedom of this significant Italian
writer; in spite of fascist censure, Alba de Céspedes never gave
up such
a search, which also guided her in her activity after the end of World
War Two, for example in her contributions to the magazine Epoca.
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The efficacy of difference
by Laura Fortini, pp. 90-96
A book about
Etty Hillesum and Daniela Padoan’s conversations with three women survivors
from Auschwitz have prompted the author to take up again (see Dwf,
n. 60, 2003) her reflection on the opacity of gender as a critical category,
stressing instead the importance of sexual difference as a necessary, consciously
assumed, position in order to produce valuable critical narrations.
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Reviews, pp. 97-108
Donne in
rete. La ricerca di genere in Europa, a cura di Maria Serena Sapegno, Università
degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Roma 2004, pp. 398
rev. by Monica
Cristina Storini
DIOTIMA,
La magica forza del negativo, Liguori editore, Napoli 2005, pp. 201
rev. by Chiara
Turozzi
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