Contradictions and the Re-Invention of One’s Own Role: The Publishing House Scritti di Rivolta Femminile in the Life/Work of Carla Lonzi

In the essay on collaborations, art historian Carla Subrizi exam- ines activist Carla Lonzi’s creation of a women’s publishing house. Subrizi probes the fraught relationship feminists had with work in the 1970s. She contends that Lonzi struggled with ideas of autonomy and independence—including economic—feminism and self-awareness, rejecting roles historically linked to institutionalized systems of work and power. For Subrizi, motherhood, being a wife, taking care of others, creativity at the service of a universal right to work, independence and recognition remain relevant themes for rethinking intellectual labor for women.