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Elevira Roncalli (ed), The Future of the World Is Open: Encounters with Lea Melandri, Luisa Muraro, Adriana Cavarero, and Rossana Rossanda, SUNY Press, 2022, 189pp., $33.95 (pbk), ISBN 9781438489148.
Reviewed by Chiara Bottici, The New School
The book contains three interviews conducted with major figures of the Italian feminist movement of the 1970s, along with some essays by Rossana Rossanda, who belongs to an older generation. Lea Melandri’s thought embodies a form of feminism nourished by activism within first the anti-authoritarian movement of 1960s and then within the women’s movement of the 1970s. Luisa Muraro’s thought situates itself within the tradition of sexual difference feminism (femminismo della differenza), which has been very influential in Italy, and which Melandri criticizes in her interview, thus setting up a nice dialogue between the two voices. Finally, Adriana Cavarero, despite her experience in the same Diotima’s group as Muraro, embodies an original feminist thought that enriches the feminist critique of the universal subject of western…
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