Noi donne

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Noi donne
Former editorsFidia Gambetti
Maria Antonietta Macciocchi
CategoriesFeminist magazine
FrequencyMonthly
FounderValentina Palumbo
Year founded1944
First issueJuly 1944
CountryItaly
Based inRome
LanguageItalian
WebsiteNoi 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[]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b c d e "noidonne (Magazine, E-Zine)". Grassroots Feminism. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Roy Palmer Domenico (13 November 2002). Remaking Italy in the Twentieth Century. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 132. ISBN 978-1-4616-6613-4.
  5. ^ a b Mark Seymour (2010). "Steel Capsules and Discursive Monopolies. "Noi donne" and Divorce in Italy, 1945-1965". Storica Mente. 6 (10).
  6. ^ a b c Franca Fossati (Spring 1994). "A new phase of reconstruction". Connexions (45).
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ ""Noi donne", da Manduria per la Puglia". La Voce (in Italian). 27 December 2015. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  9. ^ P. Morris (30 October 2006). Women in Italy, 1945–1960: An Interdisciplinary Study. Palgrave Macmillan US. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-230-60143-7.
  10. ^ 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).
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ Susan H. Greenberg (23 April 2001). "The Rise of the Only Child". Newsweek. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  16. ^ John Francis Lane (21 May 2007). "Obituary: Maria Macciocchi". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  17. ^ "Maria Antonietta Macciocchi". MEMIM Encyclopedia. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  18. ^ 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.
  19. ^ Steven Heilbronner (19 June 1994). "Lawyer Works To Change Italy's Rape Law". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  20. ^ 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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