Le madri, la guerra, la fame. Esperienze di deprivazione estrema nell’Europa centrale (1915-1920)

Based on women’s writings –letters, diaries, memoirs– and on works by contemporary observers, the essay outlines a picture of women’s experiences of extreme deprivation in Austria and Germany, of their survival strategies and protest. It dwells also on the writings of those feminist pacifists who went to Vienna, Berlin and other German cities from 1915 and 1920 to bring aid and a message of peace. From the magnitude of the suffering caused by disease, infant mortality, deprivation and despair of mothers, these women drew new impetus for activism, strengthened their pacifist and feminist beliefs, elaborated a philosophy of aid as an instrument of international peace and reconciliation, and worked out a new economic vision

Living in War. Women in Italian Historiography (1980-2016)

Il saggio analizza e commenta i risultati della storiografia italiana su donne e Grande guerr

«Una donna senza una nazione». Emma Goldman e l’esperienza dell’esilio

Il saggio ricostruisce le esperienze dell'esilio e le elaborazioni teoriche di Emma Goldman a partire dal 191

Le poetesse pacifiste della Grande guerra

Women's poetry of the First World War has long been neglected by historiography and literary criticism. In 1981 the anthology edited by Catherine Reilly gave a decisive impulse to research. Suffragists, pacifists, nurses, but also ordinary women wrote poems to express their sense of loss, to keep the memory of their loved ones alive, to give voice to a personal and universal pain, to denounce the true face of a war that was cruelly striking civilians. The essay offers a few examples of female poetic creations and dwells on poems written by Margaret Sackville and Henriette Sauret

"L'ultimo rifugio dello spirito di umanità". La Grande guerra e la nascita di un nuovo pacifismo

Il saggio ricostruisce, in un contesto internazionale, il pensiero e l'azione dei pacifisti e delle pacifiste mettendone in rilievo i caratteri di originalità rispetto al pacifismo d'anteguerr

"Come i secchi nel pozzo". Scienza ed etica negli scritti contro la vivisezione delle femministe britanniche (1870-1910)

Il saggio ripercorre le riflessioni teoriche delle femministe britanniche su scienza ed etica in relazione al dibattito sulla vivisezion