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Laura Bianchini. Dall'associazionismo cattolico all'impegno in politica
2022
Laura Bianchini (1903 - 1983) was among those women who first crossed the threshold of the "palaces" of politics. She was a member of the National Council, then of the Constituent Assembly and deputy of the Chamber during the first legislature. Teacher and publicist, he knew how to combine spirituality and political and civil commitment. Militant in the Resistance, exponent of the Catholic women's movement, representative of the left current of the Christian Democrats. His spiritual formation and his cultural setting of a personalist and community type is due not only to his militancy within the FUCI and the Graduate Movement, but also to the Catholic environment in Brescia and to the influ…
Gender Inequalities and Social Sustainability. Can Modernization Diminish the Gender Gap in Political Knowledge?
2020
The gender gap in political knowledge is a classical problem of Western democracies. In the 21st century, political knowledge is still unequally distributed between men and women, as many cross-section studies have shown. This is an indicator of women’s disempowerment and the distance which remains to be covered to achieve an inclusive and sustainable society. Could public policies and gender equality laws change the situation? Using a longitudinal database in which 600,000 survey responses are analysed from 1996 to 2017, this case study of Spain aims to shed some light on this question. It combines sociological and political approaches in line with the development theory of the gender gap …
Identidad y género : aproximación al discurso feminista en Marruecos
2013
El tema de la identidad ha estado presente con vehemencia en los dos grandes debates sobre la cuestión femenina que conoció Marruecos en el período 1992-2004 y que coincidieron con las dos reformas de la Mudauana, la de 1993 y la del Código de la Familia de 2004. Ambos debates constituyeron dos momentos históricos para el movimiento de mujeres marroquí porque marcaron su trayectoria, la evolución de sus referencias, sus acciones y su identidad. El objetivo de esta tesis es aproximarse al feminismo en Marruecos como movimiento, discurso e identidad, indagando en los mecanismos que usa para la deconstrucción de la identidad de género y la reconstrucción de una nueva identidad femenina y femin…