{{Short description|Italian feminist magazine}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2022}} {{Infobox magazine | logo = | logo_size = | image_file = | image_size = <!-- (defaults to user thumbnail size if no size is stated) --> | image_alt = | image_caption = | editor = | editor_title = | previous_editor = {{ubl|Fidia Gambetti |Maria Antonietta Macciocchi}} | category = Feminist magazine | frequency = Monthly | circulation = | publisher = | founder = Valentina Palumbo | founded = 1944 | firstdate = July 1944 | finaldate = | company = | country = Italy | based = Rome | language = Italian | website = [http://www.noidonne.org/ ''Noi donne''] | issn = 0029-0920 | oclc = 29807409 }} '''''Noi donne''''' ({{langx|it|We Women}}) is a monthly feminist magazine published in Rome, Italy. It is one of the most significant feminist publications in the country.<ref>{{cite news|author=Gaia Pianigiani|title=Italy's 'Fertility Day' Call to Make Babies Arouses Anger, Not Ardor|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/14/world/europe/italy-births-fertility-europe.html?_r=0|accessdate=15 October 2016|work=The New York Times|date=14 September 2016}}</ref>
==History and profile== ''Noi donne'' was illegally published between 1937 and 1939 in Paris by the Italian women exiled there before its official start in 1944.<ref name="grfe">{{cite news|title=noidonne (Magazine, E-Zine)|work=Grassroots Feminism|url=http://www.grassrootsfeminism.net/cms/node/424|access-date=15 October 2016}}</ref><ref name=penm>{{cite journal|author=Penelope Morris|title=A window on the private sphere: Advice columns, marriage, and the evolving family in 1950s Italy|journal=The Italianist|year=2007|volume=27|issue=2|pages=304–332|doi=10.1179/026143407X234194 |s2cid=144706118}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Roy Palmer Domenico|title=Remaking Italy in the Twentieth Century|page=132|location=Lanham, MD |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aU57AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA132|year=2002|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-1-4616-6613-4}}</ref> Its publication was possible only after the liberation of Rome<ref name=stom>{{cite journal|author=Mark Seymour|title=Steel Capsules and Discursive Monopolies. "Noi donne" and Divorce in Italy, 1945-1965|journal=Storicamente|year=2010|volume=6|issue=10|doi=10.1473/stor77}}</ref> and the first issue appeared in Naples in July 1944.<ref name=ffra/><ref name=jlh17>{{cite journal|author=Jessica L. Harris|title="Noi Donne" and "Famiglia Cristiana": Communists, Catholics, and American Female Culture in Cold War Italy|journal=Carte Italiane|year=2017|volume=2 |issue=11|pages=97–98|doi=10.5070/C9211030384|doi-access=free}}</ref> The founders led by Valentina Palumbo<ref>{{cite news|title="Noi donne", da Manduria per la Puglia|work=La Voce|url=http://www.lavocedimanduria.it/wp/91058.html|access-date=15 October 2016|date=27 December 2015 |language=it}}</ref> and Adele Cambria were communist women.<ref>{{cite book|editor=Penelope Morris|title=Women in Italy, 1945–1960: An Interdisciplinary Study|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6ReFDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA126|year=2006|isbn=978-0-230-60143-7|page=126|location=New York|author=Penelope Morris|chapter=The Harem Exposed: Gabriella Parca's Le italiane si confessano}}</ref> In the period between 1952 and 1953 the number of the pages was 48.<ref name=mvc53>{{cite journal|author=Mitchell V. Charnley|title=The Rise of the Weekly Magazine in Italy|journal=Journalism Quarterly|date=September 1953|page=477|doi=10.1177/107769905303000405|s2cid=191530801|volume=30 |issue=4}}</ref>
The headquarters of the magazine was moved from Naples to Rome.<ref name="grfe"/> From 1945 to the 1990s it was the official magazine of the Unione Donne in Italia (UDI, ''Union of Women in Italy''; then named Unione Donne Italiane, ''Union of Italian Women'').<ref name=grfe/><ref name=jlh17/> The Union was closely connected to and financed by the Italian Communist Party (PCI).<ref>{{cite journal|author=Nina Rothenberg|title=The Catholic and the Communist Women's Press in Post-War Italy—An Analysis of Cronache and Noi Donne|journal=Modern Italy|date=November 2006|volume=11|issue=3|pages=285–304|doi=10.1080/13532940600937053 |s2cid=144034180}}</ref>
''Noi donne'' is circulated monthly, and its website was launched in 2004.<ref name="grfe"/> It was previously published on a weekly basis.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Stephen Gundle|title=Feminine Beauty, National Identity and Political Conflict in Postwar Italy, 1945-1954|pmid=20120560 |journal=Contemporary European History|jstor=20081717|date=November 1999|volume=8|issue=3|pages=359–378|doi=10.1017/S0960777399003021 |s2cid=35672081}}</ref><ref name=minuz>{{cite book|author=Andrea Minuz|title=Political Fellini: Journey to the End of Italy|publisher=Berghahn Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wnhpCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA121|year=2015|isbn=978-1-78238-820-3|page=121|location=New York; Oxford}}</ref> The magazine was funded by government funding which temporarily ended in the late 1993.<ref name=ffra>{{cite journal|author=Franca Fossati|title=A new phase of reconstruction|journal=Connexions|date=Spring 1994|issue=45|pages=16–19|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A15671975/AONE?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=5a2d1b52}}</ref>
The magazine sold nearly 300,000 copies in 1952.<ref name=mvc53/> In the 1970s ''Noi donne'' enjoyed higher levels of circulation.<ref>{{cite book|author=Carl Ipsen|title=Fumo: Italy's Love Affair with the Cigarette|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MvvWCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA162|year=2016 |location=Stanford, CA|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-9839-6|page=162}}</ref>
==Content and political stance== ''Noi donne'' was not established as a magazine targeting bourgeois Italian women.<ref name=wen/> Instead, its target audience is women on the left.<ref name="penm"/> Maria Casalini claimed that the magazine was instrumental in introducing Italian women to the political arena of democratic Italy.<ref name="stom"/> However, at the beginning of the 1950s its focus was on entertainment, daily life and culture.<ref name=wen/> Later, the magazine again began to cover articles on politics, social change, culture, women's equality, violence against women and health.<ref name="grfe"/><ref>{{cite book|author=Virginia A. Picchietti|title=Relational Spaces: Daughterhood, Motherhood, and Sisterhood in Dacia Maraini's Writings and Films|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q-THdgY68QcC&pg=PA143|year=2002|publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson University Press|isbn=978-0-8386-3896-5|page=143|location=Madison}}</ref> ''Noi donne'' also features articles on cinema.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Giuliana Bruno|title=The Image (and the) Movement: An Overview of Italian Feminist Research |journal=Camera Obscura|volume=7|issue=2–3 |year=1989|doi=10.1215/02705346-7-2-3_20-21-28|page=31}}</ref> In addition, it frequently attacked mainstream women's magazines in Italy.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Dalila Missero|title=Playboys and the Cosmo Girls: Models of Femininity in Italian Men's and Women's Magazines and the Popularization of Feminist Knowledge|journal=AboutGender|year=2019|volume=8|issue=16|page=90|doi=10.15167/2279-5057/AG2019.8.16.1103}}</ref>
In 2001 ''Newsweek'' described ''Noi donne'' as a popular semifeminist magazine.<ref>{{cite magazine|author=Susan H. Greenberg|title=The Rise of the Only Child|url=http://europe.newsweek.com/rise-only-child-150329?rm=eu|access-date=15 October 2016|magazine=Newsweek|date=23 April 2001}}</ref> In addition, it was less feminist than other magazines such as ''Effe'' and ''Differenze''.<ref name="minuz"/>
==Editors and contributors== The editors of ''Noi donne'' have been women.<ref name="penm"/> Maria Antonietta Macciocchi, an Italian politician and writer, served as the editor of the magazine<ref name="wen">{{cite book|author=Wendy Pojmann|title=Italian Women and International Cold War Politics, 1944-1968|location=New York|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iGI997hVYboC&pg=PA93|year=2013|publisher=Fordham University Press|isbn=978-0-8232-4560-4|page=93}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=John Francis Lane|title=Obituary: Maria Macciocchi|work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/may/21/guardianobituaries.italy|access-date=15 October 2016|date=21 May 2007}}</ref> from 1950 to 1956.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Maria Antonietta Macciocchi|url=http://memim.com/maria-antonietta-macciocchi.html|encyclopedia=MEMIM Encyclopedia}}</ref><ref name=gun>{{cite book|author=Stephen Gundle|title=Between Hollywood and Moscow: The Italian Communists and the Challenge of Mass Culture, 1943–1991|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N4BBKj7jPrYC&pg=PA95|year=2000|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=0-8223-2563-2|page=95|location=Durham, NC; London|author-link=Stephen Gundle}}</ref> She replaced Fidia Gambetti in the post.<ref name=gun/> Bia Sarasini was the cultural editor during the 1990s.<ref>{{cite news|author=Steven Heilbronner|title=Lawyer Works To Change Italy's Rape Law |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1994/06/19/lawyer-works-to-change-italys-rape-law/|access-date=15 October 2016|work=Chicago Tribune|date=19 June 1994}}</ref>
Among its collaborators have been Lea Melandri,<ref name=ffra/> Ada Gobetti, Camilla Ravera, Nadia Gallico Spano, Anna Maria Ortese, Marguerite Duras, Giovanna Pajetta, Umberto Eco, Gianni Rodari, Ellekappa, Franca Fossati, Pat Carra, Roberta Tatafiore, Cristina Gentile, Ida Magli, Mariella Gramaglia, Bia Sarasini, Silvia Neonato, Anna Maria Crispino, Nadia Tarantini, Patrizia Carrano, Maria Rosa Cutrufelli, Valentina Savioli, Adriano Sofri, and Rosi Braidotti.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Official website|http://www.noidonne.org/}}
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