Lidia Menapace

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Lidia Menapace (2006)

Lidia Menapace (born April 3, 1924 in Novara as Lidia Brisca ; † December 7, 2020 in Bolzano ) was a politician and publicist who was considered the "grande dame" of Italian feminism.

biography

Menapace, who joined the Resistancea towards the end of World War II , graduated from the Università Cattolica in Milan with a degree in literature , which she graduated in 1945. After her marriage to the doctor Nene Menapace, she moved to Bolzano in 1951. There she represented the Democrazia Cristiana in the local council from 1956 to 1960 . In 1964 she ran successfully on the same party list for the regional council of Trentino-South Tyrol and was the first woman next to Waltraud Gebert-Deeg to join the South Tyrolean state parliamentmove in. From 1965 to 1969 she was regional councilor for social welfare and health in the Magnago II cabinet and a member of the South Tyrolean regional government . Her turn to Marxism and participation in the founding of the left-wing daily Il Manifesto cost Menapace her career as a lecturer at the Università Cattolica and led to a break with the Democrazia Cristiana. At the same time she began her involvement in the student movement and her active publication activity. In 1972 she published the highly acclaimed book Per un movimento politico della liberazione della donna , with which she played a leading role in Italian feminismtook. The partisan activity of the devout Christian shifted to the left spectrum , u. a. she belonged to the Democrazia Proletaria . In the 1980s Menapace was a member of the City Council of Rome . From 2006 to 2008 she represented the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista in the Italian Parliament as senator . In 2019 she named the Society Politika South Tyrol's “Political Personality of the Year” (for 2018).

She died on December 7, 2020 in Bolzano as a result of a SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Publications (selection)

  • Per un movimento politico della liberazione della donna . Verona 1973
  • Economia politica della differenza sessuale . Rome 1987
  • Nonviolenza. Le ragioni del pacifismo . Rome 2004, ISBN 978-8881125883 (Lidia Menapace, together with Fausto Bertinotti and Marco Revelli, describes the necessary departure of communism / socialism from the idea of ​​a violent revolution and the turn to pacifism)

literature

  • Siglinde Clementi: Poiché donna - benché donna. Lidia Menapace on her time in the South Tyrolean Parliament 1964–1968 . In: Südtiroler Landtag (ed.), Women and Politics , Bozen 2003, pp. 47–59 ( PDF, 411 kB ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Siglinde Clementi: The gentle revolution . In: Gottfried Solderer (Ed.): The 20th Century in South Tyrol. Autonomy and departure. Volume IV: 1960–1979, Edition Raetia, Bozen 2002, ISBN 88-7283-183-0 , p. 117.
  2. ↑ Alessandra Longo: È morta Lidia Menapace, pacifista, staffetta partigiana e testimone della resistance In: repubblica.it. December 7, 2020, accessed December 7, 2020 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Menapace, Lidia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brisca, Lidia (maiden name); Brisca Menapace, Lidia
SHORT DESCRIPTION Italian politician and publicist (South Tyrol)
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Novara
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 2020
Place of death Bolzano