Le risorse economiche delle donne. Uno sguardo dall’Italia

2019

Since the early 1990’s, the Italian women’s historian Angela Groppi suggested that the issue of women’s work could be improved, asking a number of new questions. Women’s wealth, their opportunities to access welfare institutions, the circulation of goods, the central role they played in urban businesses (although marginalized by the guild system) needed to be taken into consideration in terms of overall resources that women were able to manage in early modern and modern times. When the second volume of the Storia delle donne in Italia, Il lavoro delle donne, edited by Groppi, was published, an amount of fresh research in this perspective provided new insights into female strategies in the e…

Genesis e le riviste europee di storia delle donne

2015

Introduzione e curatela di un forum in cui le più importanti riviste europee di storia delle donne riflettono e si confrontano sullo stato attuale dell'editoria scientifica in materia di storia delle donne e di genere

Donne al lavoro: mestieri, diritti, reti di relazione

2017

Riflessione storiografica sul lavoro delle donne nelle città dell'Europa moderna a partire dal volume di Anna Bellavitis

Rosalie e le anticonformiste donne del Risorgimento

2019

A review of Maria Attanasio, La ragazza di Marsiglia, an historical novel

La storia delle donne e di genere e l’Università italiana. L’esperienza della Società Italiana delle Storiche

2018

THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FREE PORT OF MESSINA BETWEEN THE XVII AND XVIII CENTURIES. AN ONGOING RESEARCH AGENDA

2020

The paper outlines an ongoing study on the free port of Messina, in the context of the historiographical reappraisal on the establishment of free ports in the Mediterranean in the Early Modern Age. Adopting a diachronic approach, it summarizes the purposes and issues that affected its outcomes, from 1695 throughout the entire 18th century: its rules and the institutional turning points, the economic debates, and some critical issues like the franchise area, the trade of local goods (wheat, silk, oil), smuggling, mercantile justice and safe-conduct.

Rematrice o filatrice? Donne in un’economia di frontiera (Isole Eolie, inizio dell’Ottocento)

2018

The article explores women’s economic agency in the “border economies” of Mediterranean ports and islands, focusing on the case of Stromboli, in the Sicilian Aeolian Archipelago, in the first half of the nineteenth century. The position of women in the public and the private sphere and the lack of relevant contemporary socio-professional categories makes it difficult to identify their activities, although they are crucial to the understanding of coastal societies. The paper stresses the importance of women’s full involvement in the typical pluriactivity of such communities, combining trade with agriculture and seafaring. In Stromboli, travelers’ reports, notarial and judicial sources show a…