Red Girls' Revolutionary Tales
Antifascist Women's Autobiographies in Italy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4850665 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Bonfiglioli (0000-0002-0764-3549, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 106 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 60-77 |
| Publication date | 2014-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/fr.2013.39 |
| OpenAlex | W2327527188 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 21 |
This essay focuses on recent autobiographies written by Italian women born in the 1920s who engaged in revolutionary politics during and after the Second World War: Luciana Castellina ( La scoperta del mondo, 2011), Bianca Guidetti Serra ( Bianca la rossa, 2009), Marisa Ombra (La bella politico, 2010), Marisa Rodano ( Del mutare dei tempi, 2008) and Rossana Rossanda (La ragazza del secolo scorso, 2005). In these autobiographies, personal narratives of passionate engagement are entangled with the urgency of antifascist resistance, and with the social and political conflicts that traversed Cold War Italy. Women's multiple forms of political engagement within the Italian Communist Party are analysed, as well as the contradictory, ambivalent connection between Western European communist activists and Eastern European socialist regimes. The intersections between antifascist, communist and women's rights politics are also explored, since some of the authors were leaders of the nation-wide left-wing Union of Italian Women. The autobiographies tell the story of an antifascist, left-wing 'middle wave' that fought pioneering battles for women's political and social rights, and narrate its complex, conflictual encounter with second-wave feminism in the 1970s. These writings, therefore, allow us to reflect on changes in gendered subjectivities and revolutionary politics across time and generations
Ambivalence · Art · Communism · Feminism · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law
La ragazza del secolo scorso
Politics and Symbols
Dreamworld and Catastrophe
Why Stories Matter
Moscow and the Italian Communist Party
Autobiographies of a generation? Carolyn Steedman, Luisa Passerini and the memory of 1968
Libere sempre
The Italian Communists, the Women’s Question, and the Challenge of Feminism
Introduction
Moscow and the Italian Communist Party
Armed with a Yellow Mimosa
Was the Personal Political? Reading the Autobiography of American Communism
Continuing Cold War Paradigms in Western Historiography of Transnational Women’s Organisations
Dreamworld and catastrophe
Feminism and leftist politics in Italy
Work Ideology and Consensus under Italian Fascism
Gender
Women in the Old and New Left
In the Mood for Thought
In the Mood for Revolution
Adventures of Feminism
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |