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4.Il lato oscuro della maternità: Il femminismo di Eugenia Roccella

Veronica Frigeni Issue: Category: Themed Section

by Veronica Frigeni

Eugenia Maria Roccella was appointed Minister for Family, Natality and Equal Opportunities in the government headed by Giorgia Meloni on October 22, 2022. The article engages Roccella’s idiosyncratic post-feminism, examining its conservative, populist and maternalist stance and assessing how it positions itself in relation to existing paradigms of sexual difference and queer feminism. In particular, reading the Minister’s theoretical and literary texts alongside her parliamentary speeches and interviews, the article interrogates Roccella’s discursive construction of motherhood from a pro-life,

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6.Almost like a Virgin: Strategic Appropriation of Marian Symbolism, femminismo della differenza, and Fascist Feminism in Giorgia Meloni’s “Reverse Discourse.”

Diletta Pasetti and Nicoletta Marini-Maio Issue: Category: Themed Section

by Diletta Pasetti and Nicoletta Marini-Maio

This article undertakes a critical examination of Giorgia Meloni’s self-narrative of professional success and motherhood, situating it in dialogue with the symbolic and theological constructs associated with the Virgin Mary. By drawing on Mariological discourse, the study interrogates how Meloni’s articulation of her personal and political identity leverages iconic representations of femininity to reinforce or subvert established paradigms of gender and authority. It explores how Meloni draws on Mariology to shape her views on female agency and women’s roles in society,

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8.Interview with Teresa Ciabatti: The Least Beloved, The Most Free

Marta Cerreti Issue: Category: Invited Perspectives

by Marta Cerreti

In January 2022, I met with Italian contemporary writer Teresa Ciabatti to discuss her latest works and her experience as a woman writer in a male-dominated industry. By drawing on Ciabatti’s best-known work La più amata (2017), the title of this interview addresses a common issue for women writers: they are welcome in the literary industry provided they follow the established rules. Since 2017, Teresa Ciabatti has continuously broken conventions,

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10.Maternità, relazione, vulnerabilità: Una prospettiva filosofica

Anna Argirò Issue: Category: Invited Perspectives

by Anna Argirò

This article focuses on motherhood as a point of arrival for the biological and social spheres, as well as the public and private, the physical and psychic. Feminist philosophies of our age converge and confront each other around this topic. The article proposes that we emancipate motherhood from its biological status by elevating it into a philosophical category which allows us to reflect on the complexity of the human condition and initiate a dialogue between the varying philosophical perspectives of contemporary feminism.

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7. Cybermoms and Postfeminism in Italian Web Series

Giovanna Faleschini Lerner Issue: Category: Themed Section

Journalist Loredana Lipperini astutely observes how in Italy “motherhood is the knot” in which are entangled different feminist philosophies, as well as patriarchal views of the maternal figure as the only acceptable version of female identity. In biopolitical terms, the maternal body is “the place where power expresses itself and where power, by assuming control of it, exercises its greatest repression (Lupperini 2007). This article aims to disentangle the “knot” of feminist aspirations and contradictory discourses on motherhood in contemporary Italy as it is explored in three Italian web series: Ivan Cotroneo’s Una mamma imperfetta (2013),

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15. (Self)Representations of Motherhood in Ada Negri’s Stella mattutina

Ioana Raluca Larco Issue: Category: Open Contributions

(Self)Representations of Motherhood in Ada Negri’s Stella mattutina

by Ioana Raluca Larco

This article focuses on the figure of the mother as represented in Ada Negri’s autobiographical novel Stella mattutina (1921); such an image transgresses the patriarchal model of the passive and self-sacrificial woman-mother, so predominant in the 1800’s and the first half of the following century. Through feminist lenses (i.e., Jessica Benjamin, Luisa Muraro), I discuss how Negri restores here the mother’s subjectivity by depicting her also as an individual,

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