50 toyears of women and rights. Heredity by Chiara Saraceno is the title of the first meeting of the talks of the review The Great Age organized by Franco Parenti Theater and from Ravasi Garzanti Foundation about life and new opportunities for mature people. With Chiara Saraceno we talked about fifty years of battles for the recognition of women’s rights in Italy. Chiara Saraceno, dean of Italian sociology, scholar of women, work, welfare honorary fellow at the Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin, has recently also collaborated with the social programs of the Draghi government.
What is the Millennials and Generation Z legacy of 1970s women on equality and rights?
«Inheritance evokes the concept of continuity. But the legacy of those women was the opposite, a rupture. Something that can be condensed into: Do like me, but don’t do like me. Free yourself from a system that does not recognize you, does not value you, does not listen to you. For many women, the awareness that a change of pace was necessary, that life would be more like their desires if they had studied, worked, waited to become mothers, came when life was already abundantly started on certain tracks. The transformation was one taken away from one’s life. the concrete consequence was push the daughters on the path of emancipation. The legacy is this ability to reinvent oneself and to break out of the mold ».
Promises betrayed
In the meantime, however, the world around has changed….
“Some of the promises inherent in this breakup message they could not be realized. I think of the difficulties of women who have studied e have not found a world of work and a company, ready to support this transformation, in terms of mentality, welfare tools, approach to the couple relationship. The promises have been brokenalso because we did not expect things to go this way ».
What legacy remains for the Millennials?
«The very nice idea that achievements, promises are not passed from one generation to the next as packages, inheriting requires the involvement of the sender and the recipient. And this sharing, today that life has lengthened, it is a long journey of life togetherto dialogue and to build. It is seen in companies, it is seen in society, it is seen in families“.
There are negative inheritances
«Yes, I also wrote it in mine Heredity (Rosenberg & Seller2013) which is the starting point for this meeting. But let’s keep in mind that certain inheritances can be refused: we think of an oppressive culture, of an anaffective or criminal family, of certain political legacies or debts. There is always something plastic and of the dynamic in the concept of inheritance “.
What is the definitive teaching?
“All women, and of course all people, young or old, must never lose the awareness of their worth. Is that all have the right to make the choices that allow them to be realized in the best possible way of their possibilities, in every sphere, family, work, social, relational … “
The Great Age program
The cultural review The Great Age develops with a series of stheatrical and dance combs, meetings, exhibitions and workshops until 2023 at the Franco Parenti Theater in Milan. The May 26 there will be on stage Joel Dix and his Thursdayx – In our time (biblical). The actor offers his interpretation of the longevity of the patriarchs of the Bible. Dix then becomes a director and directs Paolo Hendel in La Giovinezza is overratedan ironic confession about the passing years. Adriana Asti is the protagonist of Love Lesson: conceived for her by Andrée Ruth Shammah, the show tells the story of the meeting of two different lives: that of an elderly piano teacher and the more fragile one of a young man considered unsuitable for society.
Jazz and piano
Great musical events for the summer: on June 28 at the Bagni Misteriosi the jazz trumpeter Enrico Ravapaired with Francesco Grillo at the piano in “Concerto in duo” on 11 and 12 July Charlotte Rampling in Shakespeare – Bach a cello suite created starting from Shakespeare’s sonnets and Bach’s music staged at Teatro degli Arcimboldi.
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