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Donne per le donne. Il Consiglio nazionale delle donne italiane e l'emigrazione femminile nell'Italia liberale
2023
L’intreccio tra la prospettiva di genere e l’emergere della storia globale ha profondamente, e proficuamente, segnato il panorama storiografico degli ultimi anni. Tale prospettiva si è rivelata feconda anche per gli studi sulla storia dell’associazionismo femminile a cavallo tra Ottocento e Novecento, laddove ha soprattutto messo in luce la centralità della dimensione transnazionale nella circolazione di idee e progetti, nella costruzione di una “rete articolata di circoli e associazioni” tra l’Italia, l’Europa e, specialmente, nello spazio transatlantico. Analogamente, l’intersezione tra sguardo di genere e prospettiva globale ha contribuito ad allargare finalmente, anche nella storia nazi…
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…
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…