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Donne che dipingono donne. La costruzione della femminilità nell'arte di Remedios Varo
2021
In questo articolo analizzerò la visione della femminilità che emerge nei lavori dell’artista spagnola Remedios Varo (1908-1963), la cui pittura – canonicamente definita surrealista – rivela una forte sensibilità nei confronti del ruolo della donna nella società. In particolare: - Inizierò fornendo dei riferimenti biografici essenziali per comprendere l’opera dell’artista. - Analizzerò in seguito il rapporto di Varo con il movimento surrealista. - Mi concentrerò infine sull’emancipazione di Varo dal canone surrealista, dominato da un forte, seppur implicito, maschilismo. Sosterrò che tale emancipazione sia resa possibile tramite un ripensamento della nozione di femminilità. Per analizzare l…
The Ancient Pedigree of Post-Factualism
2016
Planetary activism at the end of the world: Feminist and posthumanist imaginaries beyond Man
2022
We are currently experiencing a planetary crisis that will lead, if worst comes to worst, to the end of the entire world as we know it. Several feminist scholars have suggested that if the Earth is to stay livable for humans and nonhumans alike, the ways in which many human beings – particularly in the wealthy parts of the world, infested with Eurocentrism, (neo)colonialism, neoliberalism, and capitalism – inhabit this planet requires radical, ethical, and political transformation. In this article, we propose that feminist theory, particularly feminist posthumanities, and Black feminist and decolonial thought, together with creative practices such as writing, have much to contribute to tra…
Julkisuus demokratiateoreettisena käsitteenä Nancy Fraserin ajattelussa
2007
Tässä tutkielmassa tavoitteenani on artikuloida Habermasin julkisuuden käsitteen rooli Nancy Fraserin työssä. Keskityn yhtäältä erittelemään sitä, miten Fraser käyttää Habermasin julkisuuden käsitettä ja toisaalta kriittisesti arviomaan niitä ulottuvuuksia, joita julkisuuskäsite tuo Fraserin demokratiateoreettiseen projektiin. Habermas esittelee julkisuuden käsitteensä Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit - teoksessaan vuodelta 1962. Tässä teoksessa Habermas esittelee julkisuuden käsitteen historiantulkinnallisessa kontekstissa. Analyysini mukaan Habermas kuitenkin viittaa julkisuuteen paitsi historiallisena kategoriana myös poliittisnormatiivisena käsitteenä. Analyysini mukaan avoimuuden yhde…
Recensione Femminismi futuri
2020
Book Review: Future Feminisms: Theories | Poetics | Fabulations, edited by Lidia Curti, Iacobelli Editore, 2019. Feminisms Future is a text that offers a cartography of contemporary feminist discourses projected into the future, which critically question themselves by tracing possible trajectories.
Transfeminismin mahdollisuus sukupuolirealismissa
2015
Käsittelen pro-gradussani analyyttisen filosofian sukupuoliontologioita. Tutkimukseni keskittyy erityisesti Sally Haslangerin filosofiaan. Hänen työnsä rinnalla käsittelen Charlotte Wittin, Natalie Stoljarin ja Mari Mikkolan näkemyksiä sekä kritiikkiä Haslangerin sukupuoliontologiaa kohtaan. Arvioin näitä sukupuoliontologioita transfeminististen tavoitteiden kautta. Erityishuomio annettaan kysymykselle sukupuolen itsemäärittelystä. Tämän tarkoituksena on arvioida analyyttisen feminismin hyötyjä sekä mahdollisia haittoja transfeministisille tavoitteille. Argumentoin työssäni, että sitoumukset realismiin ja naturalismiin sukupuoliontologioissa eivät ole teoreettinen este transfeministisille t…
Crítica de la política e historia política de las mujeres en Italia: un balance problemático
2006
This essay aims to contribute to the process of rethinking thirty years of Italian history. These long thirty years began with the 1968 student movement and the workers’ movement in the factories of Northern Italy in the “hot autumn” of 1969, then saw the cross-fertilization of the feminist movement and the battles for civil rights (divorce and abortion), and ended with terrorism and its repression, leading to an estrangement between politics and civil society and, in particular, to women’s drastic disaffection from politics. In considering these themes Italian historiography has recently been seeking to try to understand the “anomalies” of the Italian case and of the country’s contradictor…
A Feminist physiology: B. J. Feijoo (1676-1764) and his advice for those in love
2021
This essay analyzes how the Benedictine monk Benito Jerónimo Feijoo (1676-1764), one of the most popular Spanish natural philosophers in Europe and America, discussed amorous attraction. In an attempt to reconcile Catholic dogma with empirical knowledge, Feijoo explained the origin of love as the result of wave-like interactions between sensual stimulus, imagination, nerve fibers, and the heart. His physiological model considered men and women to be equal in their internal constituents, which had important consequences for a possible science of matching. First, a possible match could only be known by a physical encounter; second, love bonds could be controlled by training the imagination; t…
A Latin American Casanova? Sex, Gender, Enlightenment and Revolution in the Life and Writings of Francisco de Miranda (1750–1816)
2022
This paper looks from a gender perspective at the elusive figure, complex personality and myth of Francisco de Miranda, enlightened traveller and Precursor of Latin American independence. By analysing Miranda's personal archive as his own carefully crafted creation, it pursues three closely connected issues insufficiently interpreted in historical perspective: the forms of masculinity he embodied and those from which he distanced himself, his connections with women and the role that gender played in his assessments of the countries he visited and wrote about. Miranda's trajectory and self-image trace an evolution (from mondain seducer and enlightened reader and thinker, to revolutionary sym…
Terrorist Masculinities: Political Masculinity between Fiction, Facts, and Their Mediation
2018
This essay proposes that terrorism manifests itself in a relation that encompasses masculinity as well as the media. The origin of this relationship is the joint performativity of gender and acts of terror. This makes terrorism an instrument of social and political change. But in order to legitimize themselves, terrorism as well as masculinity require authorization by a phantasmagorical power. Drawing on the dominance of males among terrorists, this essay will look at an early depiction of terrorism in Conrad’s The Secret Agent, a contemporary representation in Sahota’s novel Ours Are the Streets and terrorism’s real manifestation in the Paris carnage of November 2015. It will show that in…