Noi donne
| Former editors |
Fidia Gambetti Maria Antonietta Macciocchi |
|---|---|
| Categories | Feminist magazine |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Founder | Valentina Palumbo |
| Year founded | 1944 |
| Country | Italy |
| Based in | Rome |
| Language | Italian |
| Website | 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]
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]
References
- ↑ 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.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "noidonne (Magazine, E-Zine)". Grassroots Feminism. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- 1 2 3 Penelope Morris (2007). "A window on the private sphere: Advice columns, marriage, and the evolving family in 1950s Italy" (PDF). The Italianist. 27: 304–332. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- ↑ 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.
- 1 2 Mark Seymour (2010). "Steel Capsules and Discursive Monopolies. «Noi donne» and Divorce in Italy, 1945-1965". Storica Mente. 6 (10). Retrieved 17 October 2016.
- ↑ ""Noi donne", da Manduria per la Puglia". La Voce (in Italian). 27 December 2015. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Stephen Gundle (November 1999). "Feminine Beauty, National Identity and Political Conflict in Postwar Italy, 1945-1954". Contemporary European History. 8 (3). JSTOR 20081717.
- 1 2 Andrea Minuz (30 October 2015). Political Fellini: Journey to the End of Italy. Berghahn Books. p. 121. ISBN 978-1-78238-820-3. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
- 1 2 3 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. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Susan H. Greenberg (23 April 2001). "The Rise of the Only Child". Newsweek. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- ↑ John Francis Lane (21 May 2007). "Obituary: Maria Macciocchi". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- ↑ "Maria Antonietta Macciocchi". MEMIM Encyclopedia. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- 1 2 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.
- ↑ Steven Heilbronner (19 June 1994). "Lawyer Works To Change Italy's Rape Law". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- ↑ Carl Ipsen (4 May 2016). Fumo: Italy's Love Affair with the Cigarette. Stanford University Press. p. 162. ISBN 978-0-8047-9839-6. Retrieved 15 October 2016.