in the name of the mother: Sexual Difference and the Practice of 'Entrustment'

From: Cultural Studies Review | Date: September 1, 2005| Author: Scarparo, Susanna | Copyright information

If I position myself within the mother's genealogy, if 1 measure myself in terms of a relationship with another woman, if 1 place maternal authority above established power-if I create a new symbolic-then it is another world, in the more practical and realistic sense. This is what many already practice.

Luisa Muraro1

Discussing three recent Italian films which aim to recount the past thirty-five years of the nation's political history, the journalist Ida Dominijanni points out t...

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