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In the wind, 2003, n. 1

BONO Paola, Editorial note, pp. 2-4

A presentation of the nine articles collected in this issue, each a reflection and/or a narration related to a single word. In fact, the issue - focussed on the multifaceted idea of "movement": energy, transformation, displacement, imagination … - took its present form throug the playful identification of these nine words, associated to that central concept by the members of the editorial board.

MATERIA

GHITA, Love, pp. 5-9

Writing under a pseudonym, the author - herself an Iranian exile - tells the story of a young woman who left the country after being cruelly punished for an innocent ride with a young man she had fallen in love with. Love as a movement of the soul carrying serious material consequences in a country where a perverse interpretation of the Islamic religion is also the law of the state; love as a cause for displacement and exile, but a cause which is not accepted by a Western state as Italy - supposedly free and "advanced" - as sufficient to be granted the state of refugee.

BONO Paola, Avant-garde, pp. 10-16

A reflection on the military origins of the term - inevitable in a period marked by war - intertwines on the one hand with considerations on the role of women journalists in reporting the recent U.S. - Iraq conflict, and on the other with references to innovative writers such as Woolf, Stein, Richardson; the meaning of the term and the criteria of its application are also questioned using the example of the British suffrage movement and of its use of advertisement and spectacular techniques.

GLASSON DESCHAUMES Ghislaine (edited by GIARDINI Federica), Caravan, pp. 17-31

Two weeks, from May 25 to June 9 2002 - a caravan of women of different nationalites travelling through the Balkans, in that composite and difficult area of bitter and often bloody conflicts that we still define 'former Jugoslavia'. Serbia - Croatia - Kosovo - Montenegro - Macedonia - Bosnia - Slovenia … meetings with other women, moments of danger and moments of joy, a voyage of political and experiential discoveries.

GIARDINI Federica, Dynamics, pp. 32-35

Through an analysis of the interrelated workings of space, movement and tension, the author investigates sexual difference as a/the dynamic element of life, an interval that generates meaning in the always renewed play of inter-subjectivity. With reference to Irigaray and to the Italian thinkers of sexual difference (from Lonzi to Muraro), Giardini's reflections on this cluster of philosophical and experiential questions open up further areas both of theoretical inquire and of political practice.

MASI Paola, Flexibility, pp. 36-40

Starting from the proposal of a "flexible citizenship" for the new Europeans, the author reflects on the ambiguities of flexibility as a concept and a "value". She tries to unveil the link between the meaning of flexibility and the rhetoric of the "female society", a new (the last?) version of the traditional male view on society for the third millennium.

CENTI Simona, Gaze, pp. 41-45

A passion for the modes of visual expressivity has led the author first to a degree in film studies and now to the practice of photography as a means towards a formalized visual expression of her Desire, surpassing the fragmented reproduction of its many aspects. Roaming the city with her 'mechanical eye', looking at people and capturing images of strangers, she is forced to confront the dynamics called into being by the assumption of a subjective female gaze.

FORTINI Laura, Style, pp. 46-50

The author retraces and interrogates her motivations in choosing to study some writers, uncovering the roots of her preferences and passions - why Ariosto rather than Tasso, why women novelists of the Twentieth rather than of the Nineteenth century, why the peripheral, non 'canonical' writing of the mystics? Investigating a series of positions and movements - physical and mental - she individuates a possible answer in some stylistic traits (where style is also a vision of the world and a way of inhabiting it) that call her resonating with both levity and strength.

GIOVANNONI Monica, Journey, pp. 53-61

Mixing personal memories and general observations and reflections, the author looks at the ways in which her geographical imaginary has changed after her mother's death. She goes on to tell her story as the story of a journey. This, of course, is a frequent metaphor in autobiography, but here the journey is also literal. In fact, leaving home is always in some measure both a literal and metaphorical exit from the constraints of parental and cultural bonds; for her, going overseas meant both the physical enactment of a need to escape and a metaphorical vehicle for internal displacements. In a way, the goal of the author's memoir is to produce a narrative that would tell the story of her coming to writing.

POLIEDRA

GHIDINELLI Emilia - PANIGHETTI Irene, Dolores Prato: the life-saving word, pp. 62-89

The authors, mother and daughter, first discover together and then decide to present the work of an Italian woman writer unjustly disregarded by 'canonical' literary history. But Dolores Prato deserves a great attention, in particular for her original relation with the language, better, with words: her books, all autobiographical, tell us of her passion for the creative power of words, that can be more real than objects and even than life itself.

SELECTA

MARINELLI Annalisa, Forum, pp. 90-95

The author presents her book, Etica della cura e progetto (Liguori, Napoli, 2002), and expresses her view on becoming and being a woman architect.