Noi 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]

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

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] The founders led by Valentina Palumbo[6] and Adele Cambria[7] were communist women.[8] The headquarters of the magazine was in Naples, then it moved 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] The Union was closely connected to and financed by the Italian Communist Party (PCI).[9] The magazine is circulated monthly, and its website was launched in 2004.[2] It was previously published on a weekly basis.[10][11]

Noi donne was not established as a magazine targeting bourgeois Italian women.[12] 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.[12] Later, the magazine again began to cover articles on politics, social change, culture, women's equality, violence against women and health.[2][13] In 2001 Newsweek described Noi donne as a popular semifeminist magazine.[14] In addition, it was less feminist than other magazines such as Effe and Differenze.[11]

The editors of Noi donne have been women.[3] Maria Antonietta Macciocchi, an Italian politician and writer, served as the editor of the magazine[12][15] from 1950 to 1956.[16][17] She replaced Fidia Gambetti in the post.[17] Bia Sarasini was the cultural editor during the 1990s.[18]

In the 1970s Noi donne enjoyed higher levels of circulation.[19] Among its collaborators have been Ada Gobetti, Camilla Ravera, Nadia Gallico Spano, Anna Maria Ortese, Marguerite Duras, Giovanna Pajetta, Umberto Eco, Gianni Rodari, Ellekappa, Franca Fossati, Pat Carra, Roberta Tatafiore, Cristina Gentile, Ida Magli, Mariella Gramaglia, Bia Sarasini, Silvia Neonato, Anna Maria Crispino, Nadia Tarantini, Patrizia Carrano, Maria Rosa Cutrufelli, Valentina Savioli, Adriano Sofri, and Rosi Braidotti.

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. "noidonne (Magazine, E-Zine)". Grassroots Feminism. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  3. 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. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  4. Roy Palmer Domenico (13 November 2002). Remaking Italy in the Twentieth Century. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 132. ISBN 978-1-4616-6613-4. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  5. Mark Seymour (2010). "Steel Capsules and Discursive Monopolies. "Noi donne" and Divorce in Italy, 1945-1965". Storica Mente. 6 (10). Retrieved 17 October 2016.
  6. ""Noi donne", da Manduria per la Puglia". La Voce (in Italian). 27 December 2015. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  7. Michael Vena (3 October 2013). Italian Playwrights from the Twentieth Century: A Companion Text. Xlibris Corporation. p. 298. ISBN 978-1-4836-3352-7. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
  8. P. Morris (30 October 2006). Women in Italy, 1945–1960: An Interdisciplinary Study. Palgrave Macmillan US. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-230-60143-7. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  9. 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). Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  10. 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.
  11. Andrea Minuz (30 October 2015). Political Fellini: Journey to the End of Italy. Berghahn Books. p. 121. ISBN 978-1-78238-820-3.
  12. 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.
  13. 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. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  14. Susan H. Greenberg (23 April 2001). "The Rise of the Only Child". Newsweek. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  15. John Francis Lane (21 May 2007). "Obituary: Maria Macciocchi". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  16. "Maria Antonietta Macciocchi". MEMIM Encyclopedia. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  17. 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. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  18. Steven Heilbronner (19 June 1994). "Lawyer Works To Change Italy's Rape Law". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  19. 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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