Rossana Rossanda
Rossana Rossanda | |
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Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 16 May 1963 – 4 June 1968 | |
| Constituency | Milan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 April 1924 Pula, Kingdom of Italy (now Croatia) |
| Died | 20 September 2020 (aged 96) Rome, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Political party | PCI (1948–1969) PdUP (1974–1984) |
| Alma mater | University of Milan |
| Occupation | Journalist, politician |
Rossana Rossanda (23 April 1924 – 20 September 2020) was an Italian
Biography
Rossanda was born in
Italian Chamber of Deputies
in 1963.
In 1968 she published a small essay, entitled L'anno degli studenti ("The Year of the students"), in which she declared her support for the youth movement. Rossanda was part of a minority inside the PCI that was against the Soviet Union, and, together with Luigi Pintor, Valentino Parlato, and Lucio Magri founded the party and newspaper il manifesto.[3] This caused her expulsion from the Communist Party after its XII National Congress held in Bologna.
In the
L’Orsaminore.[4]
Rossanda died on 20 September 2020 at the age of 96.[5]
Selected works
- L'anno degli studenti (1968)
- Über die Dialektik von Kontinuität und Bruch (1975)
- Le altre. Conversazioni sulle parole della politica (1979)
- “A Splendid Life”. Telos 44 (Summer 1980)
- Un viaggio inutile (1981)
- Appuntamenti di fine secolo (1995)
- La vita breve (Pratiche, 1996)
- Note a margine (1996)
- La ragazza del secolo scorso (2005, finalist for the Premio Strega2006).
References
- ^ Kaplan, Gisela (2012). Contemporary Western European Feminism. Routledge. p. 270.
- ^ Berninghausen, David K. (2002). Italian Feminist Theory and Practice: Equality and Sexual Difference. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. pp. 59–60.
- ^ Vidal, Dominique (December 2014). "Buying back 'il manifesto'". Le Monde diplomatique. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
- ^ "L'Orsaminore". Biblioteca delle donne (in Italian). Retrieved 30 September 2023.
- ^ "Addio Rossana Rossanda" [Goodbye Rossana Rossanda]. Il Manifesto (in Italian). 2020.
External links
- Class and Party
- Mao's Marxism
- Revolutionary Intellectuals and the Soviet Union
- Sartre's Political Practice
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