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From relationship to relationship, 2001, n. 2-3

MASI Paola, Introduction, pp. 2-5

The issue discusses some questions raised in DWF 2001, n. 1, on the relationship among different political generations of feminists. The form and the code of the issue is the dialogue, an open bet on the possibility of discovering new practices and ideas in the hand-to-hand confrontation between the oldest and the youngest generation.

STELLA Rosetta - GIARDINI Federica, Exploring new lands, pp. 6-15

Stella and Giardini discuss the issue of a reciprocal acknowledgement between women of the others significance, authority, capacity, importance and acknowledgement that may result in consequences different from the original intention. Both underline that women are concerned about the forms and expressions of women's liberty. Giardini remarks that for a younger woman approaching new themes, daring to pose new questions, may produce confusion if she hasn't a fruitful exchange with a woman whose authority she acknowledges. Stella points to an additional problem, i.e. the difficulty of opening up a conflict with other women; anyway, what is certainly important is that a political relation with another woman should have a decisive weight in all situations.

FRAIRE Manuela - CORSI Rita, A pleasure at risk, pp. 22-30

The dialogue focuses on the issue of authority in relationships between women of different generations. According to Fraire the concept of authority is not linked to the mother-daughter model; she also remarks upon a sort of desexualisation of the woman acknowledged as her teacher by a younger woman, who at the same time enters in a relationship of obedience towards her symbolic authority. Corsi, on the contrary, argues that on the part of younger women there is imitation rather than obedience of the older women one acknowledges as one's teachers, and thus a lack of new ideas and words.

MARCOLIVIO Pia - DE VITA Tonia, Exercises of admiration, pp. 31-36

A dialogue between two political generations of feminists on the relevance of admiration among women. Debating the arguments raised by DWF 2001, n. 1 on the growing difficulty in the relationships between women who came before and the younger ones, the authors describe the admiration as a powerful engine at the beginning of feminist movement. Today, they claim, the admiration among women seems to be faded or blocked in rigid roles. Despite the difficulties in the relationships between old and new feminists, new positive signals are coming from the experiences of admiration among the women of the youngest generation.

FORTINI Laura, Young bodies in their springtime, pp. 37-45

The author compares and contrasts the ways in which desire operates in her relationship with the other women in DWF's editorial board, and in her relationship with students at the university where she teaches. She explores the differences between acknowledgement and mirroring in the experience of a teacher who looks at her women students; there is pleasure for the relationship, but also an often unconfessed need for a mirroring effect, as well as the search for a valorization of one's way of acting.

CARPISASSI Daniela, Precious mediations, pp. 46-49

The new column of our journal is devoted some considerations raised by the DWF 2001, n. 1 concerning young feminists relationships with their authorities, the women who came before. A new possibility is pointed out about the impasse in the dialogue with them. The matricide can be avoided by multiple levels of mediation related to historical and social changes. First of all the experience of new political practises between young women and the new authorities: the intermediate women.

ALESI Donatella, The disadventures of an election winner, pp. 50-54

The author analyses the role of DWF issue Politics. A difficult love story, published in 1997, in her life and political experience. After a brief narration of the involvement in the municipal council of Rome and the critical experience as a feminist in relation with women who have not a feminist story, the author replaces some questions about the meaning of politics today recalling the positive influence of DWF and the return of the political community of women.

CAPUANI Monica, Interview with Eve Ensler, pp. 55-63

Eve Ensler is the author of the Vagina Monologue, the famous pièce first staged in New York three years ago based on the interviews of more than 200 women on their own ideas and prejudices about the vagina. From the very beginning the pièce became the occasion to denounce and address the sexual abuses against women; in each city and each country where the pièce is staged, Eve suggests the organisation of a V day, a day dedicated to unveil the reality of the widespread sexual violence against women. Our interviewer, the Italian translator of the Monologue, was also the promoter of the V day in Rome last spring: at the end of the representation, Eve came on the stage, as she usually does, to break the silence on rape.