‘Wandering Thoughts’; The Writing Experience of Working‐Class Housewives in 1970s Milan.
This article analyses the writing experiments conducted in Milan by a group of working-class housewives in the 1970s. These women took advantage of the opportunity won by trade unions (so-called ‘educational right’) to go back to school and engage again with education. Their course was taught by Lea...
| Publicado en: | Gender & History Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 177 - 196 |
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