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An unpublished speech by John Stuart Mill on women's right to vote
A document that marked a turning point in the strive for women's emancipation. Nadia Urbinati explains the revolutionary feature of the speech.
On women's bodies
Franca Bimbi, Italian sociologist and member of the last Parliament, focuses on the issue of women's bodies as a place of confrontation on values in periods of transition. Churches, politics, as well as science are fighting in order to determine which rules should be placed on women. Loredana Lipperini underlines how the gender gap is still very wide in the common perception. According to Chiara Saraceno the real revolution in the post-68 family was made by women. Marina Calloni frames the abortion law from the perspective of the European Union.
Active minorities, our last hope?
Carlo Carboni, Giuseppe De Rita and Renato Mannheimer discuss the role of élites in today's Italy. Francesco Orazi and Marco Socci have done a research on Beppe Grillo's people: who are they? What do they want?
The Italian writer Marco Lodoli explains why a new imagery – which is not the result of advertising – is possible and necessary for young people.
Aldo Moro's language, a country that isn't there anymore
30 years after Aldo Moro's killing, Enzo Golino analyzes his language through his speeches and letters as well as the works of experts. The result is a portrait of a country that won't come back. Antonio Padellaro describes the difficulties one journalist found in interpreting Aldo Moro's never-ending speeches.
Politics. No more reds against whites
Two colours, two Italys. Veltroni vs. Berlusconi, green vs. blue: what has changed on the left and on the right. Marco Damilano describes Walter Veltroni's journey in building up the PD (Italian Democratic Party) as well as a new post-ideological people. Roberto Biorcio writes about PDL, the new right party, and the people it is looking at and trying to represent.
Israel
Boycotting the boycott. All the limits of an instrument of protest in an article by the American philosopher Martha Nussbaum.
Charles Taylor
An interview with Charles Taylor, the Canadian philosopher. His relationship with the Catholic religion, the future of multiculturalism, Marx, Islam, and Tariq Ramadan, and Taylor's latest monumental work, A Secular Age.
Philosophy
Where has the philosophical thought gone in recent times? In the confrontation between science and religion, philosophy is missing. "Lay" became synonymous with "scientific". Contributions by Salvatore Veca, Massimo Adinolfi, Giacomo Marramao, Mario De Caro, Pietro Perconti.
Turkey
The challenge of the scarf. Is the law that allows the scarf in universities the first step toward an Islamization of Turkish society, or the natural recognition of the rights of female citizens? Answers by Seyla Benhabib, Elisabetta Galeotti and Emrah Efe Çakmak.
Published 2008-05-13
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