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Leopoldina Fortunati papers
This collection is composed of professional and some personal papers of Leopoldina Fortunati, an Italian scholar, feminist activist and professor of sociology of communication and sociology of cultural processes at the University of Udine. She was a member of the Marxist feminist group Lotta Femminista, and helped develop the International Wages for Housework campaign that demanded housework done by women to be paid. Her research focuses on gender, communication, new media, technology, sociology, feminist theory, capitalism and forms of repression and how it shapes modern culture. This collection shows part of Fortunati's work on feminist theory and capitalism, her research method and the discussions she has engaged with overtime. It includes articles she used for her research, draft writings that were not published, conferences she attended as a presenter, interviews given for newspapers, poems she has written in the earlier stages of her life and her feminist activism, and documents that show some exchanges she had with other women regarding their work in factories or the debates they would have during their meetings. Materials date from 1964 to 2024, but the bulk of materials are from 1980 - 1990.Format(s):
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Leopoldina Fortunati papers
Albert Edgar Lownes Manuscript Collection, 1549-1975.
Manuscript Record
Albert Edgar Lownes Manuscript Collection, 1549-1975.
Albert Edgar Lownes Manuscript Collection, 1549-1975.
Other Online Access:
RIAMCO: Guide to the Leopoldina Fortunati papers
Related Collections:
Feminist Theory Archive
Notes:
Curatorial work provided by Mary O. Murphy and processing provided by Martina Lancia on behalf of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women and the Brown University Library.