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3 Contemp. Crises 1 (1979)

handle is hein.journals/crmlsc3 and id is 1 raw text is: Contemporary Crises, 3 (1979) 1-16 1 © Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, Amsterdam. Printed in the Netherlands. NOTES FROM WITHIN THE ITALIAN WOMEN'S MOVEMENT: HOW WE TALK OF MARXISM AND FEMINISM TAMAR PITCH This will not be a history of the Italian women's movement. I shall try instead to describe it as it is today. This will entail information on how it was born, and its particular nature. I shall mainly try to indicate its present goals, the ongoing discussions, and the emerging points of view. These comments, I think, may prove to be of more general interest and contribute to the present practical and theoretical effort of all women to establish themselves as new historical and political actors in society. My presentation will not be objective in the accepted sense of the word. I belong to the Italian women's movement, having been part of a women's collective for four years. Within it I have lived and participated in many experiences and struggles. Some of those experiences are peculiar to my collective; others have been shared by most of the women involved in different groups. What I think and how I think has been shaped by the particular way in which I came into contact with the movement and by the way I lived and discussed problems and events with my collective. The Emergence of a Feminist Women's Movement in Italy What we call the women's movement has no common organization and no fixed membership. Its usual form in Italy is that of small collectives - spontaneous gatherings of women formed on the basis of previous friend- ship or acquaintance, and now, more frequently, informal gatherings growing out of similar work or school situations or common political activity. Women's collectives are emerging within political parties, trade unions, neighborhood and school councils - wherever this decade has witnessed in- creased political participation. While this is the ongoing process, it is hard to say whether this new sense of organization indicates the creation of a new University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

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