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Garibaldi popolare. Politiche novecentesche dell’icona risorgimentale
2019
«Hero of the People». Political uses of Garibaldi’s image in the XXth century · Garibaldi epitomizes Italian Risorgimento also on an iconographical level. With particular reference to Sicily in the XXth century, the article aims at analyzing first some aspects of an often thaumaturgic Garibaldi’s figure within subaltern culture, chiefly through handcratfs, political tattoos, painted scenes pertaining to traditional puppet theatre as well as to ornate carts. All these contexts show a dense circulation between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture. The elections for the regional parliament in 1947 are characterized by the massive use of Garibaldi in the frame of Communist propaganda; we try to shed light …
Movimento femminile e democrazia in Sicilia: la Consulta regionale femminile del 1977
2021
This chapter aims to reconstruct the history of the political mobilization of Italian women. It focuses on the movement that from the early Seventies involved women active in Sicilian women's associations, political parties, and trade unions and, with them, militants who did not belong to any organization. In particular, the essay analyses the role played by the Italian Communist Party in introducing Italian women to the political arena of democratic Italy. In Sicily, one of the results of this mass mobilization and political participation was the political institutionalization into the Sicilian Regional Women's Council, established on 7 May 1977 with regional law number 272. In this contex…
Nilde Iotti: il contributo critico e battagliero per la costruzione di un’Europa democratica
2021
The essay examines the first years of Nilde Iotti's activity in the European Parliament, to highlight her reflections, the battles waged for the construction of a European democratic power. An experience, in the European Parliament, which began in 1969 and ended in 19792, the year in which Iotti left the European seat to occupy the seat of the first female President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic. Nilde Iotti's participation in the European Parliament, a further stage in her "progression", a term she preferred to that of "career", was the result of a new strategy of the Italian Communist Party on the subject of European integration.