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Comunicazione e distribuzione, Oggetto 32

Carla Lonzi1970 - gennaio 1981

La Galleria Nazionale

La Galleria Nazionale
Roma, Italy

Schizzi a pennarello colorati del simbolo di Rivolta femminile; busta con appuntati nomi; appunto con informazioni bibliografiche su Michèle Causse; saggio: Significato dell'autocoscienza nei gruppi femministi (gennaio 1972); comunicati: "Per l'identificazione di Rivolta femminile" e "Scritti di rivolta femminile. Libretti verdi"; elenco delle pubblicazioni; primo e secondo manifesto di Rivolta femminile: tra gli altri presenti copie con correzioni manoscritte e menabò dei manifesti; materiali di comunicazione e presentazione delle pubblicazioni e per la distribuzione, catalogo 1981 di Libretti Verdi e Prototipi, con annotazione autografa di Carla Lonzi sul frontespizio.

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  • Title: Comunicazione e distribuzione, Oggetto 32
  • Creator: Lonzi Carla
  • Date Created: 1970 - gennaio 1981
  • Transcript:
    In the freedom she wants to face, woman frees her son too and her son is humanity. In all forms of cohabitation, feeding, cleaning, caring and every aspect of daily routine must be reciprocal gestures. By education and by mimicry men and women step into their roles in very early infancy. We understand the mystifying character of all ideologies, because through the reasoned forms of power (theological, moral, philosophical, political) they have constrained humanity into an inauthentic condition, suppressed and consenting. Behind every ideology we can see the hierarchy of the sexes. From now on we do not want to have any screen between ourselves and the world. Feminism had been the first political moment of historical criticism of the family and society. Let's unite the situations and episodes of historical feminist experience: through it woman has manifested herself, interrupting for the first time the monologue of patriarchal civilisation. We identify in unpaid domestic work the help that allows both private and state capitalism to survive. Shall we allow that which happens again and again at the end of every popular revolution when woman who had fought with the others finds herself and her problems pushed to one side? We detest the mechanisms of competitiveness and the blackmail exercised in the world by the egemony of efficiency. We want to put our working capacity at the disposal of a society that is immune to this. War has always been the specific activity of the male and his model for virile behaviour. Equality of retribution is one of our rights but our suppression is another matter. Shall we be content with equal pay when we already carry the burden of hours of domestic works? We must re-examine the creative contributions made by woman to society and defeat the myth of her subsidiary laboriousness. Attributing high value to "unproductive" moments is an extension of life proposed by woman. Whoever is in power states "loving an inferior being is part of eroticism". Maintaining the status quo is therefore an act of love. We welcome free sexuality in all its forms because we have stopped considering frigidity an honourable alternative. Continuing to regulate life between the sexes is a necessity for power, the only satisfactory choice is a free relationship. Curiosity and sexual games are a right of children and adolescents. We have looked for 4,000 years, now we have seen! Behind us is the apotheosis of the age-old masculine supremacy. Institutionalised religions have been its firmest pedestal. And the concept of "genius" has constituted its unattainable level. Woman has undergone the experience of seeing destroyed every day what she has been doing. We consider incomplete any history which is based on only non-perishable traces.
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