Jessa Crispin: «A t-shirt won’t make you a feminist»
In her essay «Why I am not a feminist», the American writer states that female empowerment, popular today, is not feminism. She explains to us what doesn’t work in the #metoo movement and why men don’t have the right to speak...
Feminist. To be or not to be? Read Jessa Crispin between dilemmas and desire
Ennio Flaiano , in The Solitude of the Satyr , proposes a brilliant idea to make communism ineffective in a country like ours, of parliamentary democracy. It’s Marx’s egg. It would be enough to teach communism in schools. In that case it would not be necessary...
Fashion, feminism and patriarchy are more intertwined than we think
A miniskirt is not just a miniskirt, just like the feminist slogans on Dior t-shirts: here’s how women’s struggles have changed fashion Everything that we wear today more or less without asking ourselves too many problems has a history, carries with...
Feminism
1. Introduction Feminism was born from the awareness of an asymmetry, of an inequality between the sexes at a social and political level. It expresses first of all a denunciation of the relations of power and hierarchy that are justified and constructed...
Because there are few feminist studies courses in Italian universities
In 1995, the Italian-Australian philosopher Rosi Braidotti became professor of women’s studies at the University of Utrecht, in the Netherlands, and director of the Dutch school of research in women’s studies, a position she held until 2005. At the time...