On the occasion of the meeting for teachers "Teaching Italian and foreign literature from a gender perspective" held in Rome last December 16 at the Municipal Library Rugantino, Laura Silvestri, President Committee for Equal Opportunities of Tor Vergata, intervened pointing out the close relationship between female gender and literary discipline.
The first to bring out this similarity, the President said, were scholars and writers such as Diderot, Balzac and Becher. The Silvestri, was "struck on the road to Damascus when he again took up the famous novel, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. It was then that he decided to devote himself to the study of literature in general. Why, then, to talk about this subject from a gender perspective? Surely, the President noted the PCO because it is the first field in which the woman says. But, he added with a hint of irony, to discredit the "great exception" advanced by Plato when he said that the polls could not be run by philosophers and writers, considered too emotional. The reason for the parallelism between the Women and the identified exclusion from Plato - says Silvestri - is that the emotions, being considered a female characteristic, means that the woman falls into this category included.
The female figure is a thinking being, like man, but his mind is characterized by being on goal, namely to be able to hold together many things at once. And his thought, espresso, and even beyond, through the discipline of literature, has marked milestones in the history of the evolution of the behavior of women. According to the Silvestri, are in fact several examples that remind us of women's empowerment. By Emilia Pardo Baza will publish, in 1800, the question of French naturalism, when Spain was still considered a scandal, Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz, extraordinary female figure, one of the greatest Mexican poets of the Baroque era and one of the greatest writers of all Hispanic-American literature. Marked by a strong temperament and intellectual gifts uncommon la Cruz was able initially to escape the strict rules imposed on the lives of women at the time, but subsequently formed a major obstacle to the realization of his greatest aspiration - a life dedicated to the study - a quality that at that time was recognized for men. Without neglecting the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, single women, mothers "crazy" grief for the death of children, which gradually turned their tragedy into a collective action to understand and change the world, to spread a culture of civil rights in opposition to the dictatorship in Argentina.
The meeting of December 16 Sui Generis is part of the Project, financed by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers - Department for Equal Opportunities, organized dall'Iis Giovanni Falcone and Iis Carlo Urbani of Rome.
On 13 January 2009 at 15.00 (Rugantino Library of Rome), Laura Smith and Cristina can speak of "The Knowledge and exclusions of both sexes"
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