WAnd Should Be All Femminist, we should all be feminists, It is a very famous essay by the writer, Nigerian activist and feminist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Maria Grazia Chiuri, former artistic director of Dior, At his first parade for the Maison, in September 2016, when the lights lowered themselves, and while The audience expected a new look, the Roman stylist He sent a new point of view to the catwalk. A slogan shirt, precisely with the citation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Chiuri touched a discovered nerve, questioning the way in which the feminism is seen as an opposition to femininity. A radical vibration. Very strong. Especially in this March 8, 2025.
What teaches us on March 8th
Why the party? Historically, it is inspired by a terrible fact of news dating back to March 25, 1911 when, in the factories of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York, a fire breaks out that kills more than one hundred workers, especially immigrants, who had been locked up to prevent a strike.
It was alone in 1977 that the formal recognition of the UN came, with the establishment of the United Nations Day for women’s rights and international peace. In the eighties in Italy, until 1996, rape was considered a crime against moral and not against the person. It was therefore sexual violence one of the most felt themes during the days of struggle. Subsequently, the social and symbolic sense of this date seemed to fade, becoming more party, sometimes with commercial implications.
In more recent years the movement Not one lessborn in Argentina, returned symbolic strength to this date: in 2017 a global strike and manifestations against gender -based violence, machismo, the inequalities that are still alive in society and in a different way all over the world was proclaimed for the first time.
Make the chills The recent decision of Argentine President Javier Milei Which, in his recent intervention at the Davos World Economic Forum, criticized how the concept of femicide “legalizes in fact that the life of a woman is worth more than that of a man”.
What are we talking about? What have we not yet understood?
4 books to read on Women’s Day
One thing is certain: only culture will save us, the awareness that no one has to rightly, nobody has to recognize us, we have to start getting up alone, being aware of what we are. It is not enough to speak until the exhaustion of “Empowerment”.
For this among the 4 books to read of the week are unmissable readings of a philosophical, sociological, psychological and journalistic nature.
Oriana Fallaci in Miniskirt process He brings us – with his severe and at all disenchanted essay – in the heart of the fashion maison to tell us about the democratic and feminist evolution of the clothes, that miniskirt of Mary Quent who made women free from the edge.
We really managed to free ourselves from the constraints set by centuries of patriarchate, it wonders Natalia De Barbaro in In my life I miss me.
All to read philosopher – ten women who have rethought the world
While Francesca Romana Recchia Luciani alone it is a force of nature. Light Philosopher – Ten women who have rethought the world He gives himself the idea of the driving force of thoughts who have developed philosophical theories with the personal and professional challenges that have been called to overcome. Simone de Beauvoir is fundamental, for example, in the evolution of feminist movement of the twentieth century.
Just look at the author’s curriculum. Francesca Romana Recchia Luciani is ordinary professor of contemporary philosophies and gender knowledge at the University of Bari Aldo Morowhere he is responsible for gender policies and coordinator of the national doctorate in Gender Studies. He wrote essays and monographs on Max Weber, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Peter Winch, Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Primo Levi, Günther Anders and Jean-Luc Nancy.
Thanks to the ten proposed exemplary stories, The book manages to combine the academic function of tools for the dissemination of a reflection on the actual importance of the contribution given by women to the history of philosophy.
It is soon said “women’s day”.
In my life I miss me (Natalia de Barbaro)
“I decided to trace Women trapped inside me. In what moments I go down to the darkness, underground? In what moments of my daily life I immerse myself in a dark green water mirror, wearing a dress in which not even on the surface and in full sun you are comfortable? And above all, how I can escape from there, Remove the corset and go out to the sun? I know that looking for the answer to these questions will not be easy, but it is a task that I don’t want to subtract. “
An exhortation for all women to be the protagonists of their lives.
Also in the western world, Despite the freedom that at least apparently regulates our lives, We women continue to self -enter harmful roles who prevent us from being ourselves. Have we really been able to free ourselves from the constraints set by centuries of patriarchate? We work until the exhaustion and we demand more and more from ourselves. We put the requests of others (family, work, society) always in front of our needs And to our dreams. We deny ourselves time for us feeling guilty when we do not satisfy the requests of others.
Why?
A reading to reflect on our life and look for answers to the most necessary questions: what do I really want? What are my most intimate dreams? The book is an international bestseller of 700 thousand copies, published in 11 countries.
Info. In my life I miss me. Natalia De Barbaro. Giunti Editore.
Minigonna trial (Oriana Fallaci)
From Coco Chanel and Christian Dior to Yves Saint-Laurent and Mary Quent: The sharp pen of Oriana Fallaci puts the great stylists in memorable pages bare, the result of a selection of the very rich archive of articles written in the 1950s.
It all starts when the journalist is sent to the man of the man of the century: Christian Dior. She had already interviewed him in 1949 after having hunted him in the hall of a Florentine hotel. Ten years later he is in Paris ready not to give in: «When I ask him why he is still a bachelor, he replies in a decisive voice:”Mademoiselle, I dedicate four fifths of my life to women. When I enter the house, I don’t want to see them or hear about it anymore. ” In fact, I didn’t see what waiters ».
The pop culture that makes its way into the risen world from the post -war period discovers, together with the stars of cinema and international jet set, also stylists. ORRiana Fallaci, then one of the few women in Italian editors, It has no interest in such frivolous arguments and characters, but understands the political potential of the declarations also of the great names of the tailoring, some already transited on the scrapets of Parliament as Emilio Pucci. From Coco Chanel to Yves Saint-Laurent, from Roberto Capucci to Mary Quent, each of these meetings becomes an opportunity to re-read the world, to compare the point of view of the Couturier with that of the fans who debt to buy the clothes of his fashion line.
«Once the fashion did the rich and clothes indicated the degree of wealth or the social position. Today the fashion girls do it, the Duchesses dress like the typewriters ».
It is the end of an era that a very young Oriana Fallaci tells with the same talent with which he will then give voice to the great tragedies of history.
Info. Miniskirt process. Oriana Fallaci. Rizzoli.
Philosopher – Ten women who have rethought the world (Francesca Romana Recchia Luciani)
“Retaining women in an abyssal ignorance was fundamental for male domain, since the non -knowledge prevented them from taking possession of the liberation tools. This is the most important of the reasons that explain why what for centuries has claimed to be considered as the queen of sciences, the knowledge of knowledge, that is, philosophy, was also and so for a long time one of the areas of the most difficult culture towards women “.
It is from this observation that the author of this book starts, reconstructing the events of ten protagonists of philosophical thought and beyond. From Lou Salomé to Maria Zambrano, from Hannah Arendt to Simone de Beauvoir, from Simone Weil to AGnes Heller, from Carla Lonzi to Audre gross, from Silvia Federici to Judith Butler: a journey to discover their stories and their vision of the world. We will see different personalities and surprising events emerge, but all with a common denominator: the desire to get involved, to rethink the world, to live in a space in the ‘knowledge of knowledge’ with one’s ‘philosophical life’.
Info. Philosopher – Ten women who have rethought the world. Francesca Romana Recchia Luciani. Ponte alle Grazie
The dish (Annabelle Hirsch)
The dish is an object that talks about women. They are the ones who set the table, serve, fill, wash the dishes. The dish is an arena in which the battle of the sexes is fighting in a discreet but no less effective way. But the dish also speaks of art: it can also be festive, decorated and well “served”. Annabelle Hirsch leads readers through a unusual roundup of dinners and dishes that there They speak of housewives, suffragettes, feminists. And it also speaks of the appetite of women, hunger strikes, eating disorders and healthy watering Because, as Virginia Woolf wrote: “You can’t think well, love well, sleep well if you didn’t eat well”.
The dish: a daily object, an artistic creation, a powerful symbol, a way to tell the story of women. A deeply political book that reflects on food as a manifestation of the freedom and emancipation of the woman, supports Hirsch, also author of A story of women in 100 objects.
Info. The dish. Annabelle Hirsch. Corbaccio
I woman © RESERVED REPRODUCTION
