Another Mother: Diotima and the Symbolic Order of Italian Feminism

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Introducing Anglophone readers to a potent strain of Italian feminism, Another Mother focuses on Diotima, a community of women philosophers deeply involved in feminist politics since the 1960s. Providing a multifaceted panorama of its engagement with structuralism, psychoanalysis, linguistics, and Marxism, this volume opens an important space for reflections on the past history of feminism and on feminism's future.

Cesare Casarino is professor of cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. He is author of Modernity at Sea: Melville, Marx, Conrad in Crisis (Minnesota, 2002), coauthor of In Praise of the Common: A Conversation on Philosophy and Politics (Minnesota, 2008), and coeditor of Marxism beyond Marxism. Andrea Righi is assistant professor of Italian at Miami University. He is author of Biopolitics and Social Change in Italy: From Gramsci to Pasolini to Negri. Mark William Epstein has translated numerous books, including Lars-Henrik Olsen's Tracks and Signs of the Animals and Birds of Britain and Europe and Davide Tarizzo's Life (Minnesota, 2017).

"To those of us who teach, study, and value activist feminist thought, this collection is a gift. It makes accessible to Anglophone readers Italian feminist philosopher-activists' radical theorization and practice of sexual difference and establishes that concept not as a relic of the 'Second Wave' but as a vital resource for theorizing biopolitics, for fighting violence against 'the feminine,' and for envisioning and practicing anti-racist political projects."-Lisa Disch, University of Michigan