26-28 giugno 2002 Roma
in corso di pubblicazione negli Atti
"Non osava esprimere il suo desiderio": Gertrude Stein anno 1903
Giornata del Pride GLBT
21 giugno 2002 CDM Milano
Bisogna difendere la famigliaLa destra al governo e le lesbiche. Perchè non ci vogliono bene?
19-22 aprile 2002 Philadelphia
Effetti italiani del World Pride
La grande dissidence et le grand effroi. Colloque européen d'études lesbiennes
13-16 aprile 2001 Toulouse
Le modéle italien: 20 ans de luttes lesbiennes organisées, in Espace lesbien. Rencontre et revue d'études lesbiennes, n. 2, 2001 (Actes du colloque européen d'études lesbiennes, Toulouse 13-16.4.01), pp.179-194
Conference Women's World 99
agosto 1999
Tromsø, Norway
Lesbian mothers in contemporary Italy
The goal of my research on the subject of lesbian motherhood (Daniela Danna, "Io ho una bella figlia..." Le madri lesbiche raccontano, Zoe, Milano 1998) was to explore the ideology and the reality of a phenomenon that in contemporary Italy is still considered as a paradox. This paper is therefore based on a double approach: 1) field research carried out in 1996 involving contact with 52 women who had had children and had relationships with other women, whether they identify themselves as lesbians or described themselves using other words and concepts; 2) a review of the public debate about lesbian mothers, fuelled in the press by reports that examined two women couples that used medically assisted insemination to become pregnant in 1988 and 1994, by the European Parliament's Resolution of 1994 asking member states to permit adoption by homosexuals and the parliamentary debate about the proposals of law regulating new reproductive technologies.