Luisa Muraro
Italian philosopher and feminist theorist, co-founder of the Milan Women's Bookstore Collective and the Diotima community at the University of Verona, noted for the philosophy of sexual difference and for works such as 'L'ordine simbolico della madre' (The Symbolic Order of the Mother).
Books
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1. L'ordine Simbolico Della Madre
An influential work of feminist philosophy that reimagines the foundations of subjectivity, language, and authority from the standpoint of maternal genealogy. It argues that the prevailing patriarchal symbolic order suppresses women’s experience and proposes a symbolic order grounded in the mother—the first relationship of speech, dependence, and meaning—to legitimize female authority and freedom. Introducing practices such as affidamento (entrustment) and relationships of mediation among women, it outlines how renewing language and female genealogies can transform cultural and political life by affirming sexual difference rather than dissolving it into sameness.
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2. Guglielma E Maifreda. Storia Di Un'eresia Femminista
Storia di un'eresia femminista
A historical-philosophical reconstruction of a 13th-century Milanese religious movement that revered a holy woman as the incarnation of the Spirit and empowered her female disciple to perform priestly roles, only to be crushed by the Inquisition. Through close reading of trial records and urban networks, it illuminates how women crafted liturgy, authority, and symbolic language outside sanctioned structures, and interprets this “feminist heresy” as a resource for thinking female freedom, authority, and desire in religion and politics.