The Future of the World Is Open examines the work and thought of three prominent Italian feminist philosophers, Lea Melandri, Luisa Muraro, and Adriana Cavarero, as it delves into the significant experiences that shaped them, highlighting their converging and diverging positions. Also appearing here for the first time in English translation are three essays by renowned author, journalist, and political figure Rossana Rossanda. Rossanda’s essays offer a critical perspective on some of the contentious theoretical nodes with which Italian feminist thought has wrestled. Written in terse and engaging language, this book explores challenging philosophical and political questions, with themes including masculine domination; the body as the site of sedimented lived experience; sexual difference; the symbolic; the imaginary; feminine political authority; feminine subjectivity; and material humanism. A vivid picture of the socio-political context of Italian feminism emerges—illuminating its strong commitment to practice—and informing and enriching contemporary discussions at the intersection of different disciplinary perspectives.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Lea Melandri
1. The Memory of Our Body (
La memoria del corpo): In Conversation with Lea Melandri
Luisa Muraro
2. ‘But I Am a Woman’: Sexual Difference as Subjective Truth (‘Ma io sono una donna’:
Differenza sessuale come verità soggettiva): In Conversation with Luisa Muraro
Adriana Cavarero
3. An Imaginary of Hope (
Un immaginario di speranza): In Conversation with Adriana Cavarero
Rossana Rossanda
4. Selected Essays by Rossana Rossanda
The Unrepentant Emancipated Woman
A Worthy Challenge, an Assured Conflict: Women and the Polis
Care Amiche
Notes
About the Author
Index
About the author
Elvira Roncalli is Professor of Philosophy at Carroll College. She is the coeditor (with Silvia Benso) of
Contemporary Italian Women Philosophers: Stretching the Art of Thinking, also published by SUNY Press.
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