Future of the World Is Open

Elvira Roncalli is Professor of Philosophy at Carroll College. She is the coeditor (with Silvia Benso) of Contemporary Italian Women Philosophers: Stretching the Art of Thinking, also published by SUNY Press.

"This extremely engaging and timely volume marks important contributions to the history of feminist thinking, philosophical feminism in particular, and to Italian social and political thinking in the late twentieth century."— Pierre Lamarche, Utah Valley University"Although theoretically rich in its contents, particularly its use of feminist methodologies, this highly original volume is also an important work of oral intellectual history and a contribution to the memory of 1970s Italy."— Alessandra Montalbano, University of Alabama"Roncalli's intellectual and cultural connections to the subjects she interviews give this volume its greatest strength. Roncalli interweaves questions about ideas with the personal and political backgrounds of Muraro, Melandri, and Cavarero, who recount the ways in which feminist philosophy became a distinct force in Italy."— Elaine Miller, Miami University

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionLea Melandri 1. The Memory of Our Body (La memoria del corpo): In Conversation with Lea MelandriLuisa Muraro 2. "But I Am a Woman": Sexual Difference as Subjective Truth ("Ma io sono una donna": Differenza sessuale come verità soggettiva): In Conversation with Luisa MuraroAdriana Cavarero 3. An Imaginary of Hope (Un immaginario di speranza): In Conversation with Adriana CavareroRossana Rossanda 4. Selected Essays by Rossana RossandaThe Unrepentant Emancipated WomanA Worthy Challenge, an Assured Conflict: Women and the PolisCare AmicheNotesAbout the AuthorIndex