In 1968 she published a small essay, entitled L'anno degli studenti ("The Year of the students"), in which she declared her support for the youth movement. Rossanda was part of a minority inside the PCI that was against the Soviet Union, and, together with Luigi Pintor, Valentino Parlato, and Lucio Magri founded the party and newspaper il manifesto.[3] This caused her expulsion from the Communist Party after its XII National Congress held in Bologna.
In the 1972 elections, Il Manifesto obtained only 0.8% of the votes. It therefore merged with the Proletarian Unity Party, forming the Proletarian Unity Party for Communism. She later abandoned party politics but kept her role as director of il manifesto. Between 1981 and 1983 she was also a member of the editorial board of the feminist magazine L’Orsaminore.[4]
Rossanda died on 20 September 2020 at the age of 96.[5]
La ragazza del secolo scorso (2005, finalist for the Premio Strega 2006).
References
^Kaplan, Gisela (2012). Contemporary Western European Feminism. Routledge. p. 270.
^Berninghausen, David K. (2002). Italian Feminist Theory and Practice: Equality and Sexual Difference. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. pp. 59–60.
