In the Name of the Mother: Sexual Difference and the Practice of 'Entrustment'

Scarparo, Susanna

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“…Photo 6: Libreria delle donne (Women Bookstore), Milano: past and present. http://www.libreriadelledonne.it I visited and participated to the activities of the Women Bookstore (1987,1990) in Milano (see Photo 6), a historical site of the feminist struggles in the Seventies, when women invented their own pedagogy, a mix of self-narration, critical inquiry, and entrustment (Scarparo, 2005): women of different backgrounds met regularly to share their stories, to learn from each other about their experience of exclusion and oppression (as we are doing right now), and to build their relational subjectivities in a way that transcended the single individual's story.…”

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“…A social identity builds up by interacting, by participating to webs of affiliation. In the Seventies, women became feminist through collective engagement with other women and entrustment, which raised self-consciousness (Scarparo, 2005). The relationship between political and personal was very strong and explicit in those years.…”

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Relational aesthetics: A duoethnographic research on feminism

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Luraschi

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2019

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This paper offers a frame to reflect on the role of aesthetics in the development of a critical pedagogy for social justice in adult education. Arts-based research and practice have the power to illuminate the participants' views, ideas, and feelings, as well as the systems of values that are embedded in their contexts. Critical thinking and awareness are the result of relational and political processes, triggered by experience and going beyond subjectivity. The authors aim at defining a pedagogical practical theory that celebrates complexity, opens possibilities, develops the new, and triggers deliberate action, rather than fostering specific behaviours or learning. The paper itself is a piece of that pedagogy, developed through a cooperative method of writing-as-inquiry (duoethnography), here triggered by a photographic exhibition and resulting in the dialogic exploration of feminism in the authors' lives. In this example, it is shown how individual voices can be juxtaposed to develop an open, transforming theory of feminism, identity, and education. IntroductionThis paper is the provisional result of an ongoing dialogue among us, and involving many other learners. It is not meant to present a polished theory or accomplished practice, but to foster further dialogue. Our approach is centred on relationships as the fabric of learning: as adult educators and learners ourselves, we interpret education as the creation of dialogic spaces for enhancing critical consciousness about those issues which are relevant for our lives, individually and collectively, but often silenced. Critical pedagogy seeks for the transformation of the relationships, actions, and discourses we live by. In this respect, we share a common interest towards art as a fundamental human experience and a powerful trigger of learning. We use it extensively in our work in university, with professionals, and with distressed parents and disenfranchised subjects. We also use it to explore our theories, practices, and epistemologies: art illuminates, in fact, our mind frames and relationships to knowing. Art sustains a kind of knowing which is out of reach for the purposeful, rational mind.In the last few years, we developed multiple conversations (from the Latin cum + versari, 'hanging around in the same space') around our pedagogy by sharing biographic and ethnographic narratives, artworks, poems, and readings. We visited exhibitions, read poetry and watched movies, among us and with others, as ways to develop our theories and practices of adult education. In this paper, we aim to build a provisional but satisfying theory of the relationship between aesthetic experience and adult learning.A theory is satisfying when it addresses relevant issues in people's lives, not least the researcher. Besides, it appears beautiful, true, ethical, convincing, and useful. A good enough bunch of ideas that speak to our emotions, feelings, and values.

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Relational aesthetics: A duoethnographic research on feminism

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2019

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“…In part, she was referring to the work in women’s shelters, and in part to some specific political practices. As a matter of fact, the Italian feminists I met, especially those of the older generations, shared a radical interpretation of the ‘personal is political’ adage, believing that social change depended on specific political practices, such as the practice of self-awareness ( pratica dell’ autocoscienza, see, for example, Dominijanni 2005, 26; Bono and Kemp 1991), the practice of entrustment ( affidamento, see, for example, Dominijanni 2005, 37; Bono and Kemp 1991), the practice of starting from oneself ( pratica del partire da sé ), and the practice of relationships between women (see, for example, Scarparo 2005, 40–41). Of these four practices, that of relationships between women was especially valued for its personal and political implications, as my first days with Salentine feminists clearly demonstrated.…”

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“…On Italian feminisms and on Pensiero della Differenza Sessuale , see e.g. Bono and Kemp 1991; De Lauretis 1990; Milan Women’s Bookstore Collective 1990; Dominijanni 2005; Scarparo 2005. See also Plesset 2006, 53–54; Magaraggia and Leone 2010; Parati and West 2002, Bonomi Romagnoli 2014.…”

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Femminicidioand the emergence of a ‘community of sense’ in contemporary Italy

Parmigiani

2018

Mod. Italy

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In this article, I offer a reading of the ‘creation’ offemminicidioand of its role in the emergence of a new women’s question in Italy. I concentrate on three central steps in the legitimation of the word and the worldsfemminicidio: Unione delle Donne Italiane (UDI)’s political use of the term in 2006, UDI’sStaffettain 2008/2009, and the birth of the movementSe Non Ora Quandoin 2011. By following Rancière’s understanding of politics as a ‘reconfiguration of the sensible’, I argue that the emergence offemminicidiofostered the emergence of a ‘community of sense’ of women as a new political subject. This community did not gather mainly aroundideasof who a woman is or should be, nor did it arise from a common acknowledgement of the nature of ‘violence’. Rather, it was structured around sharedfeelingsandaffects,triggered by women’s sense of being actual or potential objects of violence.

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“…This opening discussion notes a small sample of the many feminist philosophers with an interest in love from a range of geographical locations. Hardt and Negri mention Irigaray (1987) and Cavarero’s (1990) readings of Diotima (2009, p. xii; ff 387), though they do not go on to speculate why a leading collective of Italian feminists writing, often critically, alongside autonomism took the name “Diotima” for their collaborative publishing project (Dominijanni, 2005; Scarparo, 2005). In this vein, we might also recall that “The Woman in Love” is an entire chapter of de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1953).…”

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The Break-Up

Gregg

2011

Journal of Communication Inquiry

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Responding to a recent marketing campaign in Australia, this paper considers how the politics of love suggested in Hardt and Negri's Commonwealth (2009) may have pragmatic application for media studies. The publicity strategies of a major bank in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis provide a rich illustration of the ways love's genres and registers can be directly co-opted towards commercial interests -and the challenges this presents for critical thinking. Placing Hardt and Negri's 'turn to love' in the context of ongoing debates in feminist and queer theory, the paper isolates both the possibilities and limitations of autonomist thinking. The authors' distinct contribution is to note the inventiveness characteristic of both love and poverty, which in turn provides a model for the kind of ontological bearing necessary to trouble the ongoing pact between intimacy and property under capitalism.

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In the Name of the Mother: Sexual Difference and the Practice of 'Entrustment'

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.

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Relational aesthetics: A duoethnographic research on feminism

Relational aesthetics: A duoethnographic research on feminism

Femminicidioand the emergence of a ‘community of sense’ in contemporary Italy

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