Abstract

ABSTRACT Using unpublished archival material, this article analyses the reception of Virginia Woolf in the Milanese feminist context of the late 1970s, attempting to understand the role Woolf’s work played in the theoretical development of the feminism of difference in Italy. The study focuses on two key texts: the Italian publication of Three Guineas by the feminist press La Tartaruga; and the Catalogo giallo, the second publication of the Milan-based Libreria delle donne, which played a vital role in the evolution of the feminism of difference.

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  • The study focuses on two key texts: the Italian publication of Three Guineas by the feminist press La Tartaruga; and the Catalogo giallo, the second publication of the Milanbased Libreria delle donne, which played a vital role in the evolution of the feminism of difference

  • In the 1970s, Milan played a fundamental role in Italian feminist political practice, with several feminist groups that became influential across Italy and Europe emerging in the city.[1]

  • This study analyses the reception of Virginia Woolf in these two Milan-based feminist groups of the late 1970s, aiming to understand what role her writings played in the theoretical development of the feminism of difference in Italy

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Summary

A Place for Political Praxis

A year before the Italian publication of Three Guineas, in the autumn of 1974, a group of fifteen women came together to found a cooperative and open a bookshop in Milan modelled on the Librairie des Femmes, founded by Antoinette Fouque in Paris. The notes taken during the meetings of the Gruppo romanzi are fundamental for understanding why this ‘filling a void’ was such a crucial issue This idea of the ‘need’ to fill the void emerged during one of the meetings dedicated to Gertrude Stein, when the group started discussing Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own.[87] As an attendee put it: da ragazzina non volevo diventare madre, ricordo che sognavo di avere una stanza tutta per me. In their words: ‘Virginia Woolf aveva il problema del dislivello tra una grande lucidità e il sentire: questo fa di lei una eccellente saggista e una romanziera non pienamente riuscita’.108

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17. Dal movimento femminista al femminismo diffuso
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