Noi donne
Former editors | Fidia Gambetti Maria Antonietta Macciocchi |
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Categories | Feminist magazine |
Frequency | Monthly |
Founder | Valentina Palumbo |
Year founded | 1944 |
First issue | July 1944 |
Country | Italy |
Based in | Rome |
Language | Italian |
Website | Noi donne |
Noi donne (meaning We Women in English) is an Italian language monthly feminist magazine published in Rome, Italy. It is one of the most significant feminist publications in the country.[1]
History and profile[]
Noi donne was illegally published between 1937 and 1939 in Paris by the Italian women exiled there before its official start in 1944.[2][3][4] Its publication was possible only after the liberation of Rome[5] and the first issue appeared in Naples in July 1944.[6][7] The founders led by Valentina Palumbo[8] and Adele Cambria were communist women.[9]
The headquarters of the magazine was moved Naples to Rome.[2] From 1945 to the 1990s it was the official magazine of the Unione Donne in Italia (UDI; Union of Italian Women).[2][7] The Union was closely connected to and financed by the Italian Communist Party (PCI).[10]
Noi donne is circulated monthly, and its website was launched in 2004.[2] It was previously published on a weekly basis.[11][12] The magazine was funded by government funding which temporarily ended in the late 1993.[6]
Noi donne was not established as a magazine targeting bourgeois Italian women.[13] Its target audience is women on the left.[3] Maria Casalini claimed that the magazine was instrumental in introducing Italian women to the political arena of democratic Italy.[5] However, at the beginning of the 1950s its focus was on entertainment, daily life and culture.[13] Later, the magazine again began to cover articles on politics, social change, culture, women's equality, violence against women and health.[2][14] In 2001 Newsweek described Noi donne as a popular semifeminist magazine.[15] In addition, it was less feminist than other magazines such as Effe and Differenze.[12]
The editors of Noi donne have been women.[3] Maria Antonietta Macciocchi, an Italian politician and writer, served as the editor of the magazine[13][16] from 1950 to 1956.[17][18] She replaced Fidia Gambetti in the post.[18] Bia Sarasini was the cultural editor during the 1990s.[19]
Among its collaborators have been Lea Melandri,[6] Ada Gobetti, Camilla Ravera, Nadia Gallico Spano, Anna Maria Ortese, Marguerite Duras, , Umberto Eco, Gianni Rodari, , , , , , , Mariella Gramaglia, , , , , , Maria Rosa Cutrufelli, , Adriano Sofri, and Rosi Braidotti.
In the 1970s Noi donne enjoyed higher levels of circulation.[20]
References[]
- ^ Gaia Pianigiani (14 September 2016). "Italy's 'Fertility Day' Call to Make Babies Arouses Anger, Not Ardor". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- ^ a b c d e "noidonne (Magazine, E-Zine)". Grassroots Feminism. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- ^ a b c Penelope Morris (2007). "A window on the private sphere: Advice columns, marriage, and the evolving family in 1950s Italy" (PDF). The Italianist. 27 (2): 304–332. doi:10.1179/026143407X234194.
- ^ Roy Palmer Domenico (13 November 2002). Remaking Italy in the Twentieth Century. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 132. ISBN 978-1-4616-6613-4.
- ^ a b Mark Seymour (2010). "Steel Capsules and Discursive Monopolies. "Noi donne" and Divorce in Italy, 1945-1965". Storica Mente. 6 (10).
- ^ a b c Franca Fossati (Spring 1994). "A new phase of reconstruction". Connexions (45).
- ^ a b Jessica L. Harris (2017). ""Noi Donne" and "Famiglia Cristiana": Communists, Catholics, and American Female Culture in Cold War Italy". Carte Italiane. 2 (11): 97–98. doi:10.5070/C9211030384.
- ^ ""Noi donne", da Manduria per la Puglia". La Voce (in Italian). 27 December 2015. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- ^ P. Morris (30 October 2006). Women in Italy, 1945–1960: An Interdisciplinary Study. Palgrave Macmillan US. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-230-60143-7.
- ^ Nina Rothenberg (November 2006). "The Catholic and the Communist Women's Press in Post-War Italy—An Analysis of Cronache and Noi Donne". Modern Italy. 11 (3).
- ^ Stephen Gundle (November 1999). "Feminine Beauty, National Identity and Political Conflict in Postwar Italy, 1945-1954". Contemporary European History. 8 (3): 359–378. doi:10.1017/S0960777399003021. JSTOR 20081717. PMID 20120560.
- ^ a b Andrea Minuz (30 October 2015). Political Fellini: Journey to the End of Italy. Berghahn Books. p. 121. ISBN 978-1-78238-820-3.
- ^ a b c Wendy Pojmann (2 January 2013). Italian Women and International Cold War Politics, 1944-1968. Fordham Univ Press. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-8232-4560-4.
- ^ Virginia A. Picchietti (2002). Relational Spaces: Daughterhood, Motherhood, and Sisterhood in Dacia Maraini's Writings and Films. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 143. ISBN 978-0-8386-3896-5.
- ^ Susan H. Greenberg (23 April 2001). "The Rise of the Only Child". Newsweek. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- ^ John Francis Lane (21 May 2007). "Obituary: Maria Macciocchi". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- ^ "Maria Antonietta Macciocchi". MEMIM Encyclopedia. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- ^ a b Stephen Gundle (4 December 2000). Between Hollywood and Moscow: The Italian Communists and the Challenge of Mass Culture, 1943–1991. Duke University Press. p. 95. ISBN 0-8223-2563-2.
- ^ Steven Heilbronner (19 June 1994). "Lawyer Works To Change Italy's Rape Law". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- ^ Carl Ipsen (4 May 2016). Fumo: Italy's Love Affair with the Cigarette. Stanford University Press. p. 162. ISBN 978-0-8047-9839-6.
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