Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2023
Journal Title
California Italian Studies
Volume Number
12
Issue Number
2
First Page
1
Last Page
32
Version
Publisher PDF: the final published version of the article, with professional formatting and typesetting
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a CC BY-NC License
Disciplines
Italian Language and Literature
Abstract
This article investigates how some white Italian feminists have begun to reckon with the colorblindness and ethnocentrism of their theories and are contributing to the development of a critical white feminism. An examination of key feminist texts from the 1970s will be followed by an investigation into more recent iterations of difference feminism that have critically reengaged and redefined both Marxist theories of social reproduction and cultural practices of female intersubjectivity. In addition to addressing the existence of differently situated gender positionalities and their diverging struggles, this critical white Italian feminism is also attempting to meaningfully incorporate and center feminist perspectives that have been traditionally marginalized. The article will stress the key role that both international antiracist feminisms (intersectional and decolonial) and local transnational feminisms which had already been reimagining the feminist struggle in Italy, have had in redefining white Italian feminist imaginaries.
Digital USD Citation
Di Martino, Loredana, "Crossing the Borders and Challenging the Boundaries of White Feminism in Italy: Situated Rearticulations of Difference and the Impact of Antiracist Feminisms" (2023). Italian and Italian Studies: Faculty Scholarship. 3.
https://digital.sandiego.edu/italian-faculty/3