MI always surprise how much The history of women who contributed to the evolution of humanity With their ability of innovation, courage and creativity often remains unknown and still flows like an underground karst river that struggles to see the light.
Only for a few years, Baldanizing writers have they decided to fill this void and do justice to our collective amnesia. As Simonetta Fiori and Maria Novella De Luca Author of The passionate (Feltrinelli), a precious book that brings together 10 interviews with women who have been in their field and are still a pioneer.
The two journalists do not limit themselves to their profession of interviewers But they offer us to each chapter a real exciting story and more necessary than ever. Whether I meet the professor Gaya dustyoncologist surgery, the youngest Italian primary, founder of Women in Surgery that, in his little one, is making a great revolution for all women surgeons, or Carmen Carollo, Dj Fabo’s motherwho tells with great courage as his son accompanied, “suffering beyond the human, to die with dignity”.
Serena Dandini (photo by Gianmarco Chieregato).
The stories are all exciting and you can only start from the women of the partisan struggle like Teresa Vergalliforget or remember only as bicycle girls who, in addition to showing their legs, randomly brought messages hidden in the bra for resistance fighters.
Instead they risked life for the freedom of our country as much as men, but remained invisible in the eyes of official history.
“The fans” by Simonetta Fiori and Maria Novella De Luca (Feltrinelli).
Among the incredible and moving events unfortunately falling into oblivion there is also that of collective of housewiveswomen no longer very young who had responded to the appeal of feminists inaugurating a self -managed transmission in the space of Radio Donna on Radio Città Futurato break the bars of their “domestic and marital cells”.
Passionate about freedom
They were broadcast on January 9, 1979, when A commando of neo -fascists led by Valerio “Giusva” Fioravanti entered with Mitra and Molotov injuring them all almost to deathmercilessly. A dramatic and hateful episode, buried in the fragile memory of this country.
The testimony of one of them, the ninety -nine year old Nunni Miolli indispensablean extraordinary character who would still march for women’s rights at his tender age but is now too old, certainly not to leave a precious legacy to the young generations “… because tomorrow’s girls know and don’t forget our struggle”. A powerful book that invites us to watch and never go back.
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