The volume “Usciamo dal silenzio, una storia di donne” is now available for download in .pdf format

“Usciamo dal silenzio, una storia di donne” (Ledizioni, September 2022) is the ebook, freely downloadable here in pdf, created by sociologist Maria Grazia Gambardella based on the documents from the Uds archive, organized and preserved by the Badaracco Foundation.

Commissioned by the last board of Uds to preserve the memory of women’s political practices on issues that continue to shape public debate, the work reconstructs the journey of Usciamo dal silenzio first as a movement and then as an association: a 10-year history of feminism beginning with the major Milan demonstration of January 14, 2006 in defense of Law 194 and women’s freedom.

The text is accompanied by the afterword “Rereading Uds today between reason and sentiment” by four of the founders of Uds – Cristina Pecchioli, Manuela Cartosio, Maddalena Gasparini and Assunta Sarlo – and the photographic portfolio by Isabella Balena, who also created the reworked image for the book cover.