Publisher Note
This series of photographs by Paola Agosti tell of the moment in which women came out of the kitchen and began to demonstrate. It was the mid-1970s, a period in Italy of turmoil and struggles that shook Italian society to its foundations.
The divorce law of 1974 had been a first conquest, and served as a stimulus to start a chain of demands: the right to responsible motherhood, the decriminalization of abortion, the right to asylums, equal pay.
Paola Agosti, mixing with the processions, witnessed not only the strong words of the protest, but also the people, the faces, the anger, the joy, that sense of sharing and freedom never felt before.
These photos can and want to be a tool for political intervention on the reality that these women have tried to live in the movement and outside it. They are a method of communicating experience that deserves to be studied and discussed collectively, to draw new insights and open up new spaces of freedom.
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Release Place | Rome, Italy |
Edition | 1st edition |
Release Date | 1976 |
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Topics | Protests, Women Rights |
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Format | Softcover |
Dimensions | 21.4 × 29.7 cm |
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Pages | 80 |