Abstract
In this article, I discuss how by establishing a relationship between theories and practices, the Italian feminism of sexual difference poses both a radical challenge to feminism as the struggle for equality with men, and to the notion of politics understood as the struggle for power.
Highlights
If I position myself within the mother’s genealogy, if I measure myself in terms of a relationship with another woman, if I place maternal authority above established power—if I create a new symbolic— it is another world, in the more practical and realistic sense
1970s feminism was a great social revolution but it failed to make a breach in the world of politics which is still entirely a male bastion, impenetrable and to women, as is evidenced by the insignificant percentages of women in parliament and in top party or government jobs.[2]
In Anglo-‐American countries feminism has often been portrayed as a political movement which had a great influence in changing legislation and social relations but which has run its course
Summary
If I position myself within the mother’s genealogy, if I measure myself in terms of a relationship with another woman, if I place maternal authority above established power—if I create a new symbolic— it is another world, in the more practical and realistic sense.
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