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Italian Feminism: Some Considerations

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There can be no straightforward presentation of how sexual difference relates to the various social, economic, regional, political and cultural factors that, taken together, comprise the conditions through which women live and understand their situation. Nevertheless, if feminism is to be examined as a series of debates, as a set of historical events, and as a movement with extended support, some recognition of its national location is necessary. Otherwise, it is difficult to move beyond a generalising account that accepts feminism’s growth in the 1960s and its transformation or decline in the 1980s simply as a function of certain transnational tendencies characteristic of those years. Italian feminism shares in these tendencies; however, it is the particular way in which it developed there that is of interest here.

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  1. Lesley Caldwell
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  1. University of Reading, UK

    Zygmunt G. Barański (Head of the Department of Italian Studies) (Head of the Department of Italian Studies)

  2. Department of Italian Studies, University of Reading, UK

    Shirley W. Vinall (Lecturer) (Lecturer)

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Caldwell, L. (1991). Italian Feminism: Some Considerations. In: Barański, Z.G., Vinall, S.W. (eds) Women and Italy. University of Reading European and International Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21260-6_5

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