Editorial: Un/domesticated Feminism

Abstract

A few months ago, Italian public television’s main network, directed at a generalist audience and used to “educate” Italian families by blending political moderatism, mediocre entertainment and edifying tales, broadcast a drama series titled “From Father to Daughter”. Emphatically announced as the first ever feminist TV drama and scripted by two female screenwriters themselves no strangers to feminism, it does not escape the golden rule of Italian television series: it is the micro-story of a family that the incursions of ‘macro-history’ upset only momentarily, ending up reconfirming the immutable family rules bar a few adjustments to the changing times. In our case, the micro-story spans the late 1950s and the late 1980s: a time when, in ‘macro-history’, the economic boom, the ’68 Movement and Feminism, and the dawn of the image society followed in quick succession.

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