News of October
Margherita Hack was one of the first exceptional Lunàdigas to inaugurate the collection of testimonies of the project and one of the protagonists of the documentary “Lunàdigas, or concerning childfree women”.
Margherita Hack: “I feel more at ease with animals”
We greet the month of October with her testimony, in the hope that her words will still serve as a beacon and guide, in a historical moment of such serious obscurantism.
As always, her thought is of great intelligence, wisdom, irony and beauty: a brief but very lucid human testament in which once again, with her brilliant and exquisitely free mind, she reiterates that the path of parenthood should be pursued only if really desired, and that it is not motherhood that defines and exhausts the role of women in the world.
Sarah Diehl: “Idealised motherhood is a prison for women”
Another testimony included in the Living Archive this month, a true gem, is that of Sarah Diehl, author of the book “Die Uhr, die nicht tickt”, which exposes the theme on which her research converges: to stimulate society to free itself from the biological, sociological, cultural and political rhetoric that wants women assigned to care roles in increasingly isolated family units. Starting from a strong criticism of German society, in which she sees the persistence of a performance model based on perfection, legacy of National Socialism, the author urges us to conceive new forms of social parenting and communities based on authentic gender equality.
Elissa and Priscila: “Having children is like giving your life to someone else”
Fresh voices also for the International Fund with the testimony of Elissa and Priscilla, young Ecuadorian women, who reflect on the theme of motherhood and the constraints that derive from it: on the one hand, they express the shared choice of not wanting to become mothers on the basis of a strong sense of personal independence and, on the other, they exercise their freedom as women freed from widespread social pressures, including regarding abortion.
Susan Sontag, “On Women”: a review by Claudia Mazzilli
Also new in the Stories section: Claudia Mazzilli reads Susan Sontag (American feminist, Jew, homosexual; New York 1933 – New York 2004), an author who has written reflections capable of overcoming the years of which she was a direct observer. The essays today republished by Einaudi question us on the emancipation objectives not yet achieved and on the risks of regression.
The impossible monologue of Zelda Zonk
Tiziana Troja performs Zelda Zonk, alter-ego of the most beloved (and abused) film icon of all time, Marilyn Monroe, in an excerpt from Impossible Monologues. The exclusive revelations of 35 mythical Lunàdigas by Carlo A. Borghi
