LIBRI DI DANIELA DANNA

L’ipotesi che ispira il libro è che le spiegazioni tradizionali della violenza contro le donne (il patriarcato e il genere) non illustrano in modo univoco i cambiamenti di donne e uomini italiani, i ruoli sociali che essi ed esse occupano, i loro progetti di vita, aspirazioni e differenziali di potere. In quest’ottica, il volume offre una lettura quantitativa e qualitativa del fenomeno, riflette sulle moderne nozioni di amore ed eros, pone l’attenzione ai mutamenti delle identità femminili e maschili…

This article explores the definitions of surrogacy within an international perspective. The definitions that appear in the debates and laws belong to four frameworks. The first describes the subrogation of motherhood as a medical technique: many laws and law proposals admit surrogacy only in this form. The second describes it as a gift; many countries only acknowledge "altruistic" surrogacy in their laws. The third describes it as a "job"; however, this model, advocated for also by social scientists, is not legal in any country of the world. The fourth is the most adequate: subrogation of motherhood essentially described as a judicial institution which generates a market in filiation. Within this framework, women agree to giving up their new-born children in contracts/agreements before the pregnancy; this framework, which is adopted in some countries, presents a slippery slope towards the can-cellation of any legal relationship between mother and child.

Il volume raccoglie ricerche che indagano i presupposti, la nascita e lo sviluppo delle famiglie omogenitoriali, e altri testi che possono essere d’aiuto a madri lesbiche, padri gay, aspiranti genitori, figlie e figli... Un testo essenziale per quanti sono impegnati nelle professioni legali, psicologiche, sociali ed educative, ma destinato a tutti, in una fase storica in cui il dibattito politico e sociale in Italia sembra essere concentrato sul “giudicare” una realtà spesso sconosciuta e mistificata.

"Family" has been a contested institution for the first Italian gay movement in the Seventies, sharing the feminist rebellion against patriarchy. It was Arci Gay that started using the word famiglie (in the plural) in the 90s during the political campaigns for a legal recognition of same-sex couples, while more radical groups still contested the term. In the mainstream political debate, the use of the singular family vs the plural families became a sign of closure or opening towards the GLBT movement’s requests. National polls and Eurobarometers have tested the level of social acceptance for same-sex unions and adoptions overtime, and are a good source to describe the changing social situation for families with lesbian and gay parents. In 2000s political groups formed specifically around the issue of GLBT parenting. The word omogenitorialità was coined after the french example, and used in the political debate. Notwithstanding the long debate and the diffusion in many countries all over the world of the recognition of same-sex partnerships and parenthood, in Italy no law has been approved yet, and opposition is still strong.