This is the first in-depth study of the feminist movement that swept Italy during the long 1970s (1968-1983), and one of the first to use a combination of oral history interviews and newly-released archive sources to analyze the origins, themes, practices and impacts of second-wave feminism. While detailing the local and national contexts in which the movement operated, it sees this movement as transnationally connected. Emerging in a society that was both characterized by traditional gender roles, and a microcosm of radical political projects in the wake of 1968, the feminist movement was...
This is the first in-depth study of the feminist movement that swept Italy during the long 1970s (1968-1983), and one of the first to use a combinatio...
