Women & Religion
The Bible of women
various Authors.
Original title: The women's bible commentary
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Volume I: From Genesis to Nehemiah
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Volume II: From Esther to Malachi
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volume III: The apostolic writings - from Matthew to Revelation
This is a book written by women who have studied in depth the lives of women at the time of the Old Testament, but in old key, which also applies to historical periods. The book offers a neutral point of view and not in a feminist, but with the common denominator of the status of women throughout history. Not only that, the text is divided into three volumes to give space and time to each topic, you understand and discover a set of taboos that still dominate in our society and allow us to understand. Pleasant to read, does not require Bible studies to back, however, suggested to an audience older than 13 years (with the guidance of an adult, however, informed the teenagers), and especially to an adult audience for the various issues that are dealt with, issues that do not always or almost never are documented and treated nor educational level nor at the level of media. These three texts offer the possibility to acquire a global view of the situation and the status of women in the world, not only, but also in history, including our own era.
The Enigma of Mary Magdalene
The truth about the most controversial female figure in the history
Dan Burstein, Arne J. de Keijzer
Sperling & Kupfer Editori, 2008 - 356 pp.
Santa penitent, the matriarch of a family sacred, visionary, feminist icon, an apostle of the apostles, independent woman, the muse of artists. Over two millennia, the figure of Mary Magdalene was having diverse perspectives, and reflects the way various cultures conceive of the role of women. Since Roman times, when the 'girls' were considered to be misleading, through Pope Gregory the Great, in 591 officially confirm that the figure of Mary Magdalene as a prostitute redeemed.
In the Renaissance appeared in many paintings for his versatility, between the seductive and the ascetic, while the industrial revolution many religious houses were entitled to 'Redemption' for fallen women. In the nineteenth century poets and novelists also point to the erotic relationship with Jesus and Mary Magdalene in the twentieth century became the embodiment of sexuality and feminist with a spiritual model. In other words, all facets of the feminine in a single character. But who was really Mary Magdalene?
attempt to answer this question the two famous 'secret hunters' Dan Burstein and Arne J. de Keijzer. The result is a portrait of choral and multifaceted, with the voices of historians, theologians, archaeologists, scholars of folklore and mythology, but also cultural figures come Tori Amos. Un saggio capace di soddisfare ogni curiosità... e suscitare ulteriori, intriganti riflessioni.
 
La Donna Sacra: Dalla Grande Madre alle Madonne Nere
di Laura Rangoni
Castel Negrino Gruppo Editoriale ed. 2008 - 144 pp.
La venerazione per la figura sacra della Grande Madre ha avuto origine nella prima età della pietra, come si evince dai reperti archeologici, decine di millenni prima della nascita di Cristo, ma ha trovato riscontro nelle fonti documentarie solamente in un periodo molto più tardo, quando le civiltà hanno scoperto la scrittura e hanno quindi codificato e riportato gli antichi miti.
Un libro di grande interesse che ripercorre il culto dalle Veneri paleolitiche alle apparizioni mariane.
Non solo, questo testo offre la possibilità di conoscere il mondo femminile nei vari mondi e nelle varie religioni, presso popoli diversi e nel corso della storia, scoprendo così anche le possibili influenze tra i vari culti e tra le varie visioni di un essere che ha dato vita al mondo: la donna.
 
 
Maddalena la Compagna di Gesù?
Fernanda De Camargo-Moro
Italianova, 2008 - 271 pp.
Chi fu davvero Maria Maddalena? Fu realmente, in quell’epoca, una donna precorritrice? Era davvero il discepolo whom Jesus loved and who wrote the fourth Gospel? Took shape as his relationship with the Apostles and his love for Jesus?
With the recent archaeological discoveries in the Dead Sea and Egypt, the historical reconstruction of the life of Mary Magdalene has given new impetus fascinating and challenging for researchers and historians from around the world. These findings have generated numerous debates and writings. Reconstructing the ground path of Maddalena, the author presents the first results of archaeological research carried out by you in Galilee, the scene of the primordial history of the ministry of Jesus, revealing many details about the geography and customs of the time.
reassembles the information below reliable information on the historical Christ refuting some misinterpretations that now receive new light with the recent discoveries. Then addresses the role of women of Galilee who followed Jesus every day and who supported him in his mission to the crucifixion and who played a major role in spreading the good news. Finally
converges and concentrates its research on Mary Magdalene, her family, her homeland, the role widely discussed with Jesus, by offering the tools to understand the importance of Christianity in the formation and the early church.
Based solely on archaeological research, Fernanda de Camargo-Moro offers us the opportunity to travel for a while to side of one of the most fascinating women in world history.
but I feel compelled to warn potential readers of this book is a historical analysis of the character and not a fantastic vision in sauce Masonic anti-Catholic, so I suggest this book to those who are seriously interested to document and to accept different points of view openly, which probably also analyze other cultures as well as the Christian one.
Rosa Mystica. The tradition of the Goddess in the New Testament
Elisa Ghiggini
Venexia Editions, 2007 - 203 pp.
The book deals with the recovery of powerful and vital culture in the eternal archetype of the Mother of Christian origins. Starting from the apocryphal gospels, the author shows how the time of Jesus was still alive the cult of the Goddess and its autonomous powers. When exploring this context emerges in a surprising way, the veneration of the Mother (Sophia to the Gnostics, the Holy Spirit to Christians and Jews for Ruah) as the basis of the secret teachings of Jesus
Not only, therefore, a careful study of the Gospels, but also the monastic medieval religious conceptions of the Divine Comedy, symbols and myths, like the relationship between Mary Magdalene and Jesus, they imply a religious reality articulated, in which the Goddess and her mysteries were linfa per la vita spirituale dell’individuo.
Consiglio questo testo a chi è interessato ad approfondire le proprie conoscenze sulla società celtica britannica e la sua religione ai tempi della cristianizzazione e del rapporto tra l'antica religione e la figura di una dea e quindi un personaggio femminile con la figura di un dio maschile, quello cristiano.
 
Maria Maddalena e la Dea dell'Ombra.
Il sacro femminile, la spiritualità della dea e l'immaginario contemporaneo
di Mario Arturo Iannaccone
Sugarco Edizioni, 2006 - 247 pp.
È sotto gli occhi di tutti, la Maria Maddalena, santa e asceta, della Christian tradition is now threatened, especially in popular culture, another Magdalene, a new Magdalene, from time to time witch, priestess, initiated a great secrets, coupled with the Mother Goddess, the Black Madonnas, the Gnostic Sophia, the sacred feminine , and the neostregoneria matrircato. As we have been able to get such an amazing metamorphosis? What are the conditions that made it possible? Where it began and why?
This book reconstructs in great detail the formation of this new Maddalena, ambiguous and transformed. Traces his story in the history of art. It follows the trail between the alternative spirituality. Locate the environments and characters that have supported, tra ritrovamenti d'antichi papiri e moderne rivendicazioni femministe, pratiche magiche e appelli al ritorno del matriarcato sino alle recenti, clamorose affermazioni in testi come il Codice da Vinci.
 
Il Misterioso Culto delle Madonne Nere
di Ean Begg
Età dell'Acquario Edizioni, 2006 - 364 pp.
Perché oltre quattrocento immagini della Madonna in tutto il mondo sono «nere» o «scure»? E perché sono così poco conosciute? Le Madonne nere, ricomparsa delle potenti dee pagane della sessualità, degli inferi e della sapienza terrena, sono simboli di potere e maestà, l’altro aspetto della tradizionale innocenza o tenera maternità della Madonna. Incarnano il Santo Graal e l’Arca dell’Alleanza, in una ricerca della perduta sapienza della donna e dell’anima. L’incantevole libro di Ean Begg esamina le origini pagane del fenomeno, nonché la corrente nascosta dell’ereticità gnostico-cristiana che attraversò l’Occidente con il culto di Maria Maddalena e riemerse con il catarismo all’epoca delle crociate, specialmente con i templari. Inoltre l’autore fornisce un dizionario geografico che permette al lettore di individuare i luoghi di culto in cui è possibile trovare le Madonne nere, completo di informazioni sulle loro origini.
 
Maria Maddalena and the Holy Grail by Margaret Starbird
Oscar Mondadori, 2005 - 280 pp.
When Margaret Starbird, a scholar of Catholic, she came across the heresy of the Holy Grail (a theory which holds that Christ did not die on the cross but married Mary Magdalene and has descendants generated in Western Europe), is was shocked. Trying to find out more have discovered irrefutable evidence (first of all four canonical Gospels) that define a new image of the Holy Family, in which Maria does not die a virgin and Jesus has brothers and a wife the same woman who anointed him with precious balms made from alabaster, Mary Magdalene. In this provocative and disturbing book Starbird draws the conclusions of his extensive research and, using a variety of disciplines (from history all'araldica, the symbolism medieval art, mythology and psychology to the study of scriptures), interprets and makes it available to non-specialist readers a millennial tradition "heretical" that ecclesiastical power always try to silence the sound of a consolidated dogmas. A rigorous study that is also a hymn to freedom of thought and the pursuit of truth.
Women & history
The Witches' Herbs in the Middle Ages
Rosella Omiccioli Valentini
Editions Pens and Papyri, 2010 - 175 pp.
Since the publication in 1862 of the Source of Jules Michelet and especially after the re-evaluation of this student "abnormal", which experienced a long period of black-positivist age, there has been stripped, although with difficulty and it is not at all, by stereotype of the witch saw as a disturbing and bulky figure, addicted to evil practices, tool of the devil. [...] In the rehabilitation of this figure appears in the first place the study of herbs, which are the heritage of the female, but particularly the witches, with which women were often identified, if only because of sin Apple then detained in the capital pet food and body care, by the act of conception to the last goodbye.
result was that even if often distorted and cheap, the editorial success that in recent times have had and continue to hold the works of Byzantine medichessa Metrodora of Salerno magistra Trotula de Ruggiero, the prophetess Rhine Hildegard of Bingen: all stretched out a joyful appreciation of the body, both male and female. This is a huge and strategic power that has created men and women a kind of "attraction army" among the most dramatic results of which should precisely count the witch hunt, but should not obscure the delicate gestures of everyday life no matter how strong , attenzioni, saperi, che, attraverso la preparazione di cibi, decotti, tisane, creme, aromi e profumi, consolidano il riconoscimento di una sensibilità e di un protagonismo femminile che non cessa mai di stupire i maschi: perfino i più rozzi. Su questo percorso si è cimentata l’autrice di questo libro che da un lato traccia la storia di una peculiare e plurisecolare riaffermazione delle abilità e delle seduzioni femminili in questo campo, dall’altro fornisce una ricca antologia ragionata di piante, erbe, radici attraverso la cui abile manipolazione la donna si trasforma in strega, nel senso più nobile del termine: curatrice e incantatrice al contempo.
 
Magia e Superstizione in Europa dall'Antichità ai Giorni Nostri
di Michael D. Bailey
Lindau ed. 2008 - 400 pp.
libro mostra al lettore come la magia e la superstizione siano state definite nelle varie epoche e come i loro tratti costitutivi siano mutati nel tempo, analizza i modi in cui sono stati condannati specifici tipi di magia ed è stato accusato e perseguitato chi li praticava (o si riteneva lo facesse).
L’autore dimostra infine che la magia – o, per dire meglio, ciò che nei diversi contesti si è considerata tale – è stata quasi sempre utilizzata per tracciare il confine tra le azioni socialmente accettabili e quelle illecite, e più in generale tra il noto e il comprensibile e l’ignoto e l’occulto.
Magia, stregoneria e superstizione rappresentano da sempre il lato «altro», oscuro e affascinante, della civiltà europea. Anche in un’epoca come la nostra, caratterizzata da un accentuato materialismo e da una esasperata fiducia nella ragione e nella scienza, esse costituiscono una corrente sotterranea – una sorta di fiume «carsico» – abbondante e impetuosa.
Parla quindi del passato, ma anche del presente, questo importante saggio di Michael Bailey, una delle più complete e approfondite analisi oggi disponibili sull’argomento.
Se una speciale attenzione è dedicata all’Europa medievale e agli albori dell’età moderna, l’autore non trascura l’antico Vicino Oriente, la Grecia classica e Roma, o, in tempi a noi prossimi, il diffondersi di sistemi magici – in particolare la Wicca, una forma contemporanea di stregoneria – dall’Europa agli Stati Uniti.
 
La Stregoneria in Italia. Scongiuri, amuleti e riti della tradizione
di Andrea Romanazzi
Venexia Edizioni, 2007 - 230 pp.
Sin dai tempi più arcaici gli uomini hanno cercato di contrastare le manifestazioni più estreme della Natura attraverso un’azione magica, che si è evoluta nei secoli generando credenze, riti e tabù. In Italia, in particolare, emerged as a popular religion of ancient pagan origin can protect against nature, but particularly meeting the needs of earth and materials of the devotee. The book examines the expressions of popular witchcraft and rural Italian, in a journey through the rituals and spells which provide the moments of passage of human life in a thorough picture of the ancient customs and traditions of our country.
Guide to the Witches in Italy
Andrea Romanazzi
Venexia Editions, 2009 - 254 pp.
The first travel guide to magical places of the Sabbath, accompanied by historical references, maps and tips for visiting the regions of witches.
A journey through the villages, valleys and enchanted forests that have hosted gatherings of witches. These are remembered along with the witch-hunt, which made dell'herbara evil entity linked to the devil and pagan heritage, whose symbols resisted the advent of Christianity and attempts to delete the Inquisition.
Region by region, the author tells the legends and traditions which made these areas the favorite abode of witches and sorcerers, and offers the reader, with maps, addresses, and practical advice, tools to organize real magical itineraries country lanes and hidden recesses of the Italian territory, where healers and shamans gathered medicinal herbs and the celebrations of the sacred rites in honor of their gods.
Guide to the Mother Goddess in Italy. Routes between cults and traditions
Andrea Romanazzi
Venexia Editions, 2005 - 188 pp.
The Italian peninsula has taken over the millennia many rituals, traditions and religions focusing on the Goddess, which are sometimes large and showy tracks. And it is traveling in search of them, including land, water, air and fire, which the author discovered a number of exciting itineraries in which to relive the archaic flavor of the Great Mother. The preface is Syusy Blady, presenter and director of "Tourists / Mysteries by-case basis. " Inside, the illustrations in b / w and 16 maps with suggested itineraries for visiting the sites of the Goddess in Italy.
Triora Anno Domini 1587. History of witchcraft in Western Liguria
Edmondo Ippolito
De Ferrari and Ferrario, 2005 - 261 pp.
"Triora Loudon is the Italian, European Salem. But it is fair to say that Loudon is Triora Salem Tiora of France and New England since the famous witch trials took place in Triora in 1588, and undoubtedly is its chronological priority, while nothing less than the two others as a frightful tension "(Quirino Principe).
What triggered the fierce witch hunts that raged in the isolated mountain village? It was a terrible famine to bring down the country or the speculation of some landowners? What ancient pagan cults still survive in Triora time? It is against this background that
Edmondo Ippolito Ferrario, who studies the folklore of Liguria, analyzes the dramatic events that saw involved the ancient Genoese Podesta in the sixteenth century.
"The author has been able to successfully rework the argument, and with particular insight by developing an original analysis of historical facts, which relies on the most important studies, amplifying the scope "(L. Lanteri, Mayor of Triora).
The Black Book of the Middle Ages
The witch-hunt, the rituals of black magic, astrology, demonic, Joan of Arc, the Shroud: the "dark side" of the age of Paolo Cortesi
half of Newton & Compton Editori, 2005 - 285 pp.
"Where a lot of light, the deeper the shadow," wrote Goethe. The light shines in the medieval poetry of Dante and Petrarch, in the sublime symbolism of Gothic cathedrals, in the absolute power of philosophy. Dark side (the part in shadow ...) was no less intense: just say the word and everyone remembers the medieval witch-hunting rites and black magic, astrology, demonic, the ruthless persecution of heretics and the fierce penitential practices ... In addition to this, the Middle Ages to the scholar who has not afraid to break the traditional mold real puzzles that are still outstanding: Who was Joan of Arc? Why are runic inscriptions in America? Where and what is the Shroud? Who inspired Christopher Columbus's epic voyage which closed the Middle Age? Arguments apparently different, but all united by the fact of being on the "dark side" of the Middle Ages.
Witch. The revolt of women in the Inquisition-truth novel by Jules Michelet
various editions and reprints
A knowledge of the history of women and discrimination directed against them and bans could not memorable regardless of Michelet's book dedicated to the Witch. The study was chronicles, legal documents and archival documents escaped the destruction wrought by the ecclesiastical power that wanted to eliminate the evidence of a long era of terror, this novel-truth resists time symbolized in the "Girlfriend of the devil" a symbol of everlasting freedom.
 
La Dea Madre e il culto Betilico: antiche conoscenze tra mito e folklore
La Dea Madre e il culto Betilico: antiche conoscenze tra mito e folklore di Andrea Romanazzi
Levante Editori, 2003 - 125 pp.
La società e la cultura moderna presentano oggi, con nuve vesti, antichi retaggi culturali e rituali pagani, spesso assorbiti dalle attuali religioni, che però si ripresentano con forza tra le pieghe del manto tessuto proprio per nasconderli e coprirli. E' così che il vento della reminiscenza fa gonfiare questi veli facendo loro assumere le forme di una antica figura pagana la Dea Madre, divinità dai tanti nomi, Isaide, Isthar, Venere, Gaia, Epona, e che oggi potremmo facilmente identificare con le numerose Virgin Black "Nigra sum sed formosa" found throughout the continent.
to know its true origins and go in search of traces that the matter was left in the folklore and culture of Italy and Europe Poppoli should penetrate between the wilderness of ancient myths and legends. The Goddess has never disappeared, it was just retreating deep in the forests and woods, with her partner, God, appearing nellle fairy tales and folk traditions, leaving as a warning to his temples: the stones. It will be the cult of the sacred rock or betili, present throughout the Italian folklore, mystical ride as Ariadne's thread between the figures of Arthur and the Paladin Orlando, of Theseus and the Minotaur between the Amazons and the gods of trees, then moved to Ulysses and Aeneas in search of the golden bough that opens the knowledge or the mystical Eden, apple tree that both recalls the apples of Avalon or the garden of the Hesperides. Even today you can hear the singing and speaking menhir human ear, sounds and vibrations are of eternity that can pierce the veil that obscures our past.
The Black Book of the Witch Hunt
The reconstruction process more emblematic of a madness that led to the stake hundreds of thousands of women
Vanna De Angelis
Piemme - and Remainders, 2004 - 303 pp.
The reconstruction of large processes una follia durata quattro secoli: la caccia alle streghe.
Basandosi sugli atti processuali e sui documenti dell'epoca, l'autrice racconta una storia di efferatissime e perverse torture, di fanatismo, di delazione, di intrighi politici, di ossessione sessuofobica e satanica e fa rivivere casi emblematici (a volte poco noti) di un olocausto misconosciuto che ha condotto sul rogo centinaia di migliaia di donne in Italia (Val di Fiemme, Val di Non, Triora), in Francia, in Germania, in Inghilterra e in Spagna.
 
 
 
Femmina Strega
di Mario Boffo
Stampa Alternativa ed, 2004 - 190 pp.
The feminine principle of the universe and its repression. The conflict that has seen centuries opposed to witches and inquisitors, Church and civil society.
History of the Death Match between a Dominican, of his strong theoretical and philosophical framework, and a woman, aware of the authority of his instincts and emotions. Until the catharsis that, changing the previously established order of events will mark a fleeting victory against the persecutors of the very soul of the world.
a historical-anthropological takes the reader into the thick tangle of passion and symbolism in the language of the witches, in the proposed approach to life which could ... be
In Bed with Kings by Eleanor Herman
and Piemme, 2006 - 380 pp.
Five hundred years of women's power, real lovers and prostitutes of the court. Why not just in the halls of the throne has become history.
What history teaches us, there is no place less erotic and sensual in the bedroom "official" of a king. Often forced by reasons of state to marry women who did not like, it's easy to imagine that under the sheets real little happens beyond the operations necessary for the longed-for heir to the kingdom. And elsewhere, to read the warmest and most loving arms, that the sovereign were satisfied. It was sometimes prostitutes' high board, "real master in the art of eroticism, but more often than lovers, intelligent women who could tie him for years the heart of the king. Sometimes fame in outperforming their sovereign, as Madame de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV for nineteen years, although apparently frigid. Probably, in secret alcoves have consumed more intrigue in the courtroom, as often, from their throne of silk, the favorites ran the kingdom. Wealth and power were a deserved reward for sustained effort to stay where they were. Preventing the wishes of the king, be his partner and lover, never boring or tediarlo. And obtain maybe tasty morsels among the populace, but to keep clear of other more dangerous rivali.Con the exception of George II - King rare case of love with his wife and "forced" to have a mistress to save your reputation - there ' King was almost no favorites, and no court intrigues of the bed. To confirm that there is no more cakes aphrodisiac of power. The High Priestess
Secret
Eleanor Herman and
Piemme, 2009 - 582 pp. When
Olympia came into the world at the end of the sixteenth century, it was believed that all were originally male embryos and that for some reason at some point fail and become females. His father prayed that God spared the plague, but was not granted.
From the beginning the girl shows signs of a strong character, escaping from the convent where her father was imprisoned, and superior intelligence. Quality highly admired only if exercise is a man. Once free, he promises to herself that no one can ever imprigionarla.Diventa so, long way, the lover of the man who in 1644 will be elected Pope Innocent X. "We just elected a female pope" says a cardinal leaving the conclave, and for the duration of the pontificate will actually wield power in Olympia. She will turn heads of state, Ambassadors, politicians. Without his approval, the pope will not lift a finger. She joins him in secret at night and keeps with him for hours behind closed doors. A Madame de Pompadour in the heart of the Vatican, the high ground of scandal and shame, so that the Church will do everything to hide it for posterity. Because, unlike the Pope Joan, wrapped in the smoke of the legend, Olimpia Maidalchini is a woman of flesh, bones and brain. Which held in check the state most macho of his time.
Woman and Love in the Time of Myths
The importance of initiation and erotic female
Artur Schwarz
and Garzanti, 2009 - 280 pp.
always the female figure, with his energy and his power is at the core of many myths, cults and mysteries, from the first matriarchal civilization to the present day, magavi in \u200b\u200bcrowds now that we struggle to identify. The woman, the source of all is the powerful mother, which generates and feeds, at the same time, his sexual aspect energizes and turns, giving the knowledge. Starting from the ancient Paleolithic figurines - female idols, currently characterized by narrow hips and small breasts, large breasts, and now from wide hips - Arturo Schwarz follows and relates the various Lord of love and fertility that have accompanied the history of mankind and embody the 'vital energy of nature and indicating the privileged path to knowledge. Without hiding the deep ambiguities of the feminine principle, along with benign and destructive. In his journey
Schwarz draws anthropology and psychoanalysis, art and philosophy, but also to the hidden knowledge of alchemy and Kabbalah. Illustrates the relationship between the feminine and light, Ower sexual union that leads to spiritual knowledge of self and other. Explores sexuality as transcendence and mystery, one of the deepest sources of religious experience. And of course illuminates the profound relationship between the erotic and the aesthetic emotion, including the orgasm and the vertigo of beauty.
Women Medieval & Modern
Women Just Fear
Manual of mental and physical self-defense in response to the violence and save lives
Mario Furlan
Sperling & Kupfer Editori, 2009 - 173 pp.
We are seeing a real escalation of violence against women: not just for the road - assaults, muggings, rapes - but often in households where the brutality comes from those who should protect them and love them more.
This book is a psychological defense designed for women, not a real help to find the role of victims, not to be "choices" and assaulted, violated, overwhelmed. Mario Furlan, founder of City of Angels, knows what are the mechanisms of violence perché li osserva ogni giorno nello svolgimento della propria attività di volontario al servizio dei cittadini, e perché, assistendo i carcerati, conosce a fondo la psicologia degli aggressori e il modo in cui selezionano le loro vittime.
Il suo obiettivo è mettere a disposizione delle donne di tutte le età un manuale di "prevenzione", un vero e proprio kit antipanico con una serie di suggerimenti per celare la vulnerabilità e costruire dentro di sé un valido sistema di allarme antiaggressione. Uno strumento di autodifesa che non si basa sulla forza fisica ma sull'atteggiamento mentale, e quindi può essere applicato da chiunque.
Donne che Amano Troppo
Robin Norwood and
Feltrinelli, 2006 - 306 pp.
The psychological difficulties of women living in families with affective disorders: alcoholics, drug addicts.
Why love becomes "too bitter", and when this happens? Why do women sometimes while recognizing their partner as inadequate or unavailable can not get rid of? While they hope or want him to change, in fact it ever more deeply involved in a mechanism of habituation. Women who love too much, a bestseller that reached a record five million copies sold, offers a case study in which they clearly identified the reasons why many women fall in love with the wrong man and they spend their energies in vain to change it. With sympathy and an absolute professional competence Robin Norwood indicates a possible route towards self-awareness and feelings toward equilibrium.
Women who abuse Men: What to do?
Developing strategies for intervention with men who use violence in intimate relationships
Judith Creazzo, Letizia Bianchi
Carocci Editore, 2009 - 238 pp.
The male violence against women in intimate relationships are the problem of gender violence more widespread globally. Disclosure of a conflict omitted - That men and women - men's violence requires the questioning of the normality of our gendered and sexual relationships. What to do? The criminal justice system can not be the answer or the only answer to this problem. In addition to homes and centers to support anti-violence women have emerged abroad programs directed to men, that will no longer use violence.
The volume presents the results of a European project developed in Bologna, Athens and Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwhich took place seriously the question of what to do in relation to the violent behavior of male and provides pathways to deal with it.
It also includes presentations by experts of a Norwegian Centre and the results of a action research and an international training course on design considerations and evaluations: a critical reflection on Intervention penalty.
Girls Bullying Girls who hate girls. Journey through the discomfort of adolescence
Luca Bernardo
and Cult., 2009 - 133 pp.
A growing phenomenon, little known and little studied, which is described and finally addressed by a leading expert in Italian adoloscentologia.
female bullying is a thin, sharp, intellectualized. Recent news reports indicate a growing concern about incidents of physical violence between girls, but female bullying can be ruthless, even without physical abuse.
The reason that psychological bullying is not sufficiently appreciated is that it is much less ornate than that of men, but for this much more subtle. The girls, unlike boys bullies, predilogono, in most cases, indirect aggression, non-physical, more subtle and often more painful. Marginalize weaker companions, calumnies, blackmail, islands, mockery, exclude them, make them feel invisible.
A psychological torture, a form of persecution which, if prolonged, can have very serious consequences: stress, nervous breakdown, eating disorders and concentration. It also forms of self-harm.
domestic violence. Testimonies, speeches, reflections of
Merete Amann Gainotti, Susanna Pallini
Magi and Oxford University, 2008 - 142 pp.
In many countries of the so-called advanced Western culture, but it remains in family violence: humiliation, economic blackmail, sexual abuse, plagiarism, beatings, even murder. The old woman on the male oppression does not disappear with the advance of progress, has become only more subtle and varied, in an evil mixture of sex, love, addiction, guilt e potere. La famiglia è luogo costante di traumi e micro-traumi, perpetrati per lo più dagli uomini.
Il volume raccoglie una serie di contributi intenti a rievocare e illustrare il percorso e i motivi culturali, sociali e politici che hanno portato alla nascita dei Centri antiviolenza attraverso le testimonianze di chi, in Italia, ha contribuito alla nascita di questi Centri e di chi vi ha lavorato o tuttora vi lavora.
Uno spazio rilevante è dedicato dagli autori alle riflessioni sul costo sociale e psicologico, non solo per le donne, ma per l’intera società, della violenza di genere. Questo fenomeno trascende i tempi storici e le condizioni socio-culturali, si esprime quotidianamente nell’ambito di tante mura domestiche, as victims and not only women but also children, with devastating consequences for everyone as it is transmitted and the violence is learned.
Considerations on gender relations conclude the volume, leaving the reader to face the question - for now - a few answers: why so many people of different age, education, social classes engaged in the exercise of violence against women?
Signs of Violence
Discover the signs that the silent shadows of violence always leave the wall bare human existence
A. Marisa Aloia
Giordano Editore, 2006 - 255 pp.
The book collects the work experience of Dr. Marisa Aloia, psychologist, psychotherapist and consultant in the courts, in cases of sexual abuse expert on real or alleged minors. All'intemo volume describes the four surveys carried out on children abused and molested two preschoolers and two school-age children and their experiences from the entire family. Also proposed is the same Dr. Aloia hearing testimony, when questioned during a trial to assess the designs of a child during the period of investigations. There are also tools and guidelines that psychologists may consult with lawyers during their activities.
out of violence you can
Monica Vodarich
Jar Editions, 2008 - 367 pp.
The intervention methodology, proven and established during these years of hard work has produced positive results and evolutionary in the lives of thousands of women, making them regain dignity, welfare, health and freedom.
"Reading the book I realized how much the wealth of expertise of a multi-disciplinary and comprehensive anti-violence centers, as this is determined by the experience and expertise gained within the Centers themselves through the relationship between women, and that only thanks to these books can be transmitted outside. " Alessandra Rosa Line Bagnara
Association, founded in 1991 by a group of women who shared a project to combat violence, providing support and assistance to women alone or with children who have been abused or who are in moments of distress. In 1993, he opened the First Reception Centre and in 1998 founded a shelter, a secret address, for women who suffer violence or are threatened with death. Since 2005, Rose Line runs a second home, within which are housed women, with their children, who need a facility with a regulation allowing them a gradual reintegration into society.
Ginocidio. Violence against le donne nell'era globale
di Daniela Danna
Eleuthera Editrice, 2007 - 154 pp.
Questo libro affronta un tema tornato di grande attualità, in Italia e non solo, a causa dei recenti frequenti ed efferati episodi di violenza contro le donne. Una violenza che fa strage di donne in tutto il mondo. Quasi un genocidio. Anzi, un ginocidio, in quanto questa violenza viene giustificata dal giudizio sull'inferiorità sociale femminile e dal desiderio di controllo del corpo delle donne attraverso le limitazioni alla sessualità e alla vita sociale. Il testo è diviso in due parti. La prima parte è tematica: descrive e analizza stupri, maltrattamenti in famiglia, omicidi, violenza culturale, istituzionale ed economic, social phenomena and not seen as individual actions related to gender inequality and more generally the degree of inequality present in a given society. The second part uses instead a geographical approach, comparing different scenarios such as those of Italy, Scandinavia, the Americas, Eastern Europe and Muslim countries.
The Slave Girls of
Diaryatou
and Piemme, 2008 - 220 pp.
Married parents in 14 years to a man thirty years old, deported to Europe from Africa to be raped, beaten and humiliated in the home, in an endless nightmare. Mother of girl children ever born, neglect, ignorance, cruelty, and a stillborn child who has not even had the right to accompany the cemetery. Diaryatou is the story of a shocking testimony that opens our eyes to the condition of many young immigrant women, victims of the traditions of the deaf and the laws of men. Thanks to an extraordinary fortitude and the help of social services in France, Diaryatou managed to recover from such a desperate condition to hear his voice. Telling his story was finally able to remember who he is, close your eyes and return to his village in Guinea, relive those happy days with his grandmother, who has grown up as a true mother, even if he has not been able to avoid that it be imposed on the ruthless ueanza infibulation. forgotten too quickly.
telling his story is finally able to heal those wounds that were screaming all her pain, a pain because of segregation, abuse, fear, loneliness, but also of a childhood destroyed too soon and that will never return.
I think this story should be read by all women, because it is important to know that this is not a "discovery of the hot water" of our times, but a phenomenon that has always existed, although many pretend not to see, hear, and then not knowing. The child brides are not only figures of other worlds, but also of our time, not just the present but also of our past. Just because in the '60s we had a sexual revolution and the law on the family, the past of our ancestors can not be erased, nor should it be forgotten because even our ancestors, the matriarchs of our families were once also their wives girls , sold to men who have often destroyed their lives. I recommend this book because it serves to remember and to say that the emancipation and freedom, as well as the ripetto of women should not be just a concept "Western" but universal.
And God He denied the woman
Like the Laws of Our Fathers has always pursued the female population of Victoria
Haziel
Sperling & Kupfer Editori, 2008 - 456 pp.
"In words almost all abhor racism and condemn it with disdain stopped. The history of the complaint instead of the practice in fact, in good and bad faith, more or less consciously. We're not talking about a particular race, but half the human race ": in fact we are talking about women. With these words, the author reveals how the "patriarchal pact" has not stopped even today to claim victims: the veil mandatory, the circumcision, the stoning, the rapes continue in the ethnic eyes of males around the world and of every religion. Tackling these traditions intolerable is only a first step. To root out the foundations and dangerous to oppose the resulting disharmony, the author offers tools and trails to reunite the feminine and the masculine within each person.
Disfigured
The courageous witness of the Arabia TV journalist murdered by her husband
Rania Al-Baz
Sonzogno ED, 2007 - 230 pp.
On October 4, 2004 Rania al-Baz, one of the few TV journalists in Saudi Arabia, a young, beautiful and without a veil, is beaten up by her second husband. Le foto con il suo viso fratturato in 14 punti fanno il giro del mondo e lei diventa una nuova bandiera per chi combatte per i diritti delle donne nei Paesi islamici. Con questo libro Rania vuole lanciare un messaggio forte: "Uomini, fermate la violenza". Un storia drammatica, comune però a tante altre donne di fede musulmana: l'infanzia con un padre padrone, il primo matrimonio combinato a 15 anni, l'onta del divorzio, la solitudine e la fatica per ricostruirsi una nuova vita professionale e coniugale, la violenza del marito. La ribellione, in nome della libertà, ma anche la paura.
 
Ho scelto questo libro perchè anche la storia di questa donna deve essere raccontata e soprattutto aiuta a vedere tantissime cose che i media invece ci portano ad ignorare. Quando sentiamo parlare di altre religioni e di violenze che accadono alle donne di fede diversa dalla nostra, ormai siamo portati anche a pensare che queste altre religioni insegnino solo l’odio e la violenza, che gli dei diversi dal nostro Dio siano crudeli e violenti, ma la storia di Rania invece ci dimostra il contrario, ci dimostra come invece la religione cristiana e quella musulmana siano simili e come spesso l’uomo faccia delle leggi per sè stesso o le interpreti a proprio piacere dicendo che sono di Dio, quando invece l’unica legge vera di Dio è l’AMORE e che nella legge di Dio non c’è questione maschile che tenga. Rania's story is deep and is a mirror for us, all of us and all those who think that not happened in our past stories similar to hers.
What remains
Speaking of abortion by various authors starting from abortion
Vita Nuova Editrice, 2007 - 223 pp.
"What remains," declared the urgency of addressing the issue of abortion, starting with abortion. Starting from the woman.
Stories of women, children stories, real life.
are highlighted, once and for all, without double standards, the dramatic consequences of women che decidono di interrompere volontariamente la propria gravidanza.
Paura, solitudine, sofferenza, illusioni ed infine un dolore profondo che non dà tregua e non passa nemmeno a distanza di anni. Psicologi, medici, psichiatri, mettono a disposizione la loro esperienza professionale per "spiegare" questo dolore e aiutare la donna ad attraversare il lutto, perchè diventi un cammino verso la redenzione, la rinascita, il perdono. Un tema scottante, senza bandiere, senza politica e al di là del proprio credo religioso, perchè a raccontarsi sono proprio le protagoniste, le donne in quanto esseri umani, in quanto persone.
Questo libro è rivolto a tutte le donne, specialmente a quelle donne che si fanno portatrici dei messaggi di vita solo per farsi notare e che si schierano senza guardare in faccia nessuno contro l’aborto senza chiedersi come o perchè una donna possa giungere ad una così drastica decisione, che non lascia altro che dolore e distruzione. Una decisione tanto drammatica e dolorosa non può che essere partorita dal dolore e nessuno può permettersi di giudicare, anche se c’è chi lo fa e proprio a questi giudici mando l’invito alla lettura. L’aborto è la cosa più terribile che credo possa fare una donna, ma nessuno si chiede mai che storia hanno queste donne dietro di loro da dover ricorrere a decisioni tanto drastiche: famiglie che non comprendono, motivi economici, violenza sessuale e domestica, ignoranza delle conseguenze, e mille altri motivi. Se da un lato dobbiamo aiutare queste vittime a risalire dal loro abisso, dall’altro lato dovremmo prevenire la loro caduta e quindi salvarle, soprattutto smettendola con l’ignoranza e l’ipocrisia di chi fa tanto casino per un preservativo nel matrimonio o di un rapporto prematrimoniale quando non ci preoccupiamo di insegnare ai nostri figli l’educazione sessuale e la contraccezione, quando non vogliamo superare la nostra ignoranza e i nostri tabù. L’ignoranza e il dolore, la paura e la solitudine sono credo le basi di una decisione tanto dolorosa che queste donne non perdonano nemmeno a sè stesse. Non solo, le storie raccontate in questo libro altro are but an echo of our past, a trail of our Western mentality and just tell us so much that the West is the flowing gold and the good life, that there are problems, we should stop being hypocrites and start instead to be more realistic and honest with ourselves at least.
Female circumcision. The body of Carla Pasquinelli violated
Meltemi ed., 2007 - 239 pp.
Female circumcision is the most severe form of female genital mutilation (FGM), a custom in Africa, spread in a vast area populated by a mosaic of ethnic groups with different languages, cultures and religions, which is a clearly established violation of human rights of women and girls. FGM have a remote source, which dates back to the pharaohs, according to some, others ancient Rome, and remained unknown due to the long silence that has protected from indiscreet curiosity to us Westerners. Yet something is changing for some years, certainly as a result of mobilization campaigns conducted by some international organizations such as UNICEF and WHO, but also for the unpredictable dynamics of migration in Western countries, where contact with other bodies and styles Life has brought many immigrants to move away from this archaic practice. infibulation We suddenly came to the fore following the proposal made by a Somali doctor at Careggi Hospital in Florence to replace it with an alternative ritual that would give families the opportunity to still very attached to their traditions, thus avoiding the mutilation of their daughters.
A much discussed proposal, immediately transformed into a sensational case, powered by the voracious media attention, which for more than a month in Italy has divided for and against. To deepened anthropological analysis of what are the FGM is accompanied in these pages a search on the specific situation of African women in Italy, and a large press of the debate on "alternative rite", which summarizes the main nodes in the reflection of recent years.
This book that I recommend for an adult audience, touches a very sensitive issue, but in fact extremely delicate throws a series of shadows and suspicions about our past, the origins of the phenomenon and those who wonder if this trauma and fatal torture was also practiced in our past for some tribal law.
The Woman in Judaism
Giuliana Ghiandelli
LS and Publishing Group, 2006 - 149 pp.
The Woman in Judaism, was born from the return to the female figure, in the context of Judaism, its importance and its dignifying di Essere essenziale per la realizzazione dei disegni di Dio.
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