In the Name of the Mother: Sexual Difference and the Practice of 'Entrustment'

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Susanna Scarparo

Abstract

In this article, I discuss how by establishing a relationship between theories and practices, the Italian feminism of sexual difference poses both a radical challenge to feminism as the struggle for equality with men, and to the notion of politics understood as the struggle for power.

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Italian Effects (Peer Reviewed)
Author Biography

Susanna Scarparo, Monash University

Susanna Scarparo is Cassamarca lecturer in Italian Studies at Monash University. She is the author of Elusive Subjects (Troubador, 2005), co-editor of Across Genres, Generations and Borders (University of Delaware Press, 2004), and has written articles on life writing, historical fiction, and Italian Australian literature. <susanna.scarparo@arts.monash.edu.au>