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This Journal 1973-1989

 

This journal privileged a theoretical approach which would transcend a mere commentary on current affairs though without forgetting the concreteness of the problems at stake

 

This journal published jokes, comic strips, and short parodic texts reflecting and commenting in an ironic and self-ironic manner on the link with the symbolic mother

 

This journal aimed to give choice to a specific reality

 

This journal promoted by communist women debated possible autonomous modes of action for women with regard to bioethics, the labor market, political representation, and the bisexualization of culture

 

This journal was undistorted by the sensationalism of the media

 

This journal’s irregularity was linked to the modes and rhythms of reflection

 

This journal made reference to Hannah Arendt’s thought, including agere (beginning, promoting an action) and gegere (bringing it to completion)

 

This journal was neither a women’s magazine nor a magazine for women, but a magazine written by women

 

This journal treated the question of women’s political presence and action from a dual perspective: the foundation of new modes of relation among women and the individuation of ways to approach, use, and change institutions

 

This journal had the capacity for synthesis which often characterizes the comic mode of expression

 

This journal was the site of a formation and expression of the complex relationship which women entertain with language

 

This journal was an irregular monthly

 

This journal was aimed at the reviewing and refounding of interpretive and expressive modes

 

This journal attempted to give voice to sexual difference as an active principle at work in the creation of reality, at the same time stressing the multiplicity of points of view present in the feminist community regarding such a process and its practical forms

 

This journal included reviews grouped around themes like “some said before me” and “beginnings of a discourse”

 

This journal manifested the richness of the female universe

 

This journal was more from an insider’s point of view

 

This journal was an analysis of economic rules in light of their sexual basis

 

This journal underlined the importance of the experiential dimension of knowledge, the need to take into account the uniqueness of the individual subject, and the weight of affective processes

 

This journal severed completely its links with “the father”

 

This journal was founded by seven intellectuals of different backgrounds, bonded by friendship and by a habit of discussing and analyzing together the life of each and its context

 

This journal was concerned with the art of arguing polemically among women

 

This journal might seem like a slightly eccentric inclusion in a panorama of journals

 

This journal was devoted to a reappraisal of the mythical figure of the Amazon

 

This journal was all politically on the left

 

This journal set out to investigate a series of concepts identified as peculiarly relevant to feminist speculation in the present context like how women’ power only arises out of plural action

 

This journal was devoted to an inquiry into the complex relationship between women and the law

 

This journal aimed at becoming a medium of information and communication for women who wanted to exchange projects, experiences, or desires but without the undue certainty in being the possessors of truth and knowledge

 

This journal would create a dialogue of positions and therefore many potential readings which would go beyond the sum of its parts

 

This journal testified to the richness and diversity of itineraries

 

This journal meant to question all extant cultural and political conceptions

 

This journal was not afraid of polemics, irony, and eroticism

 

This journal was created for recreational purposes

 

This journal was about the need for a world which allows women to live at ease