Annarita Buttafuoco
Born in Cagliari on March 15, 1951, she lived on the Island of Elba until 1970. After moving to Rome, in 1974 she graduated in Modern Literature with a thesis entitled “Anthropological Features of Sanfedismo.”
From autumn 1974, she began teaching at the University of Siena, Arezzo campus; in 1981 she became a researcher and in 1992 an associate professor.
In Rome in 1975 she founded, together with Tilde Capomazza, the journal DWF, which she then directed from 1978 to 1986. In 1978 she founded the Association for Studies and Research DWF Donna Woman Femme.
From 1991 to 1995 she was President of the Italian Society of Women Historians and promoter of the Summer School of Women’s History in Pontignano.
In 1993 she became President of the Unione Femminile Nazionale.
She died in Arezzo on May 26, 1999.
Among her publications:
- Le Mariuccine. Storia di un’istituzione laica. L’Asilo Mariuccia, Milan, Franco Angeli, 1985 (2nd ed. 1988; 3rd ed. 1998)
- Cronache femminili. Temi e momenti della stampa emancipazionista in Italia dall’Unità al fascismo, Arezzo-Siena, Dipartimento di studi storico-sociali e filosofici, 1988
- Sul movimento politico delle donne. Scritti di inediti di Franca Pieroni Bortolotti, edited by Annarita Buttafuoco, Rome, Utopia, 1987
- Svelamento. Sibilla Aleramo: una biografia intellettuale, edited by Annarita Buttafuoco and Marina Zancan, Milan, Feltrinelli, 1988
- Modi di essere. Studi, riflessioni, interventi sulla cultura e la politica delle donne in onore di Elvira Badaracco, raccolti da Annarita Buttafuoco, Bologna, Editoriale Mongolfiera, 1991
- Questioni di cittadinanza. Donne e diritti sociali nell’Italia liberale, Siena, Protagon Editori Toscani, 1995 (2nd ed. 1997)
- Riguardarsi. Manifesti del movimento politico delle donne in Italia, edited by Annarita Buttafuoco and Emma Baeri, Siena, Protagon, 1997