Abstract This article analyses from a historical perspective the relationships between art, photography, and feminism in the Italian cultural context of the 1970s, in order to shed light on a chapter of Italian historiography that has been explored only marginally. During this decade, photographic practice and feminist thought formed a close connection: many artists who were active in awareness-raising groups or embraced feminist theories chose photography as their expressive means both for its ability to grasp issues relating to subjectivity and the body, and as a tool to demystify the stereotypes linked to the gender difference widespread in Western visual culture. Photography became the privileged means adopted by these artists to criticize the symbolic order of the dominant language and its masculine inflection. In a historical moment in which women struggled to overturn the canons of patriarchal culture, photography, with its specific indexical nature and its relationship of adherence to external reality, also allowed these artists to construct a radical social criticism of the way images were used to portray femininity, to challenge the centuries-old invisibility of women’s experiences, and to deconstruct the mechanisms of fetishization and eroticization characterizing the representations of the female body.

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另一个衡量标准：意大利的摄影和女权主义艺术

摘要 本文从历史的角度分析了 1970 年代意大利文化语境中艺术、摄影和女权主义之间的关系，以阐明意大利史学中仅被边缘探讨的一章。在这十年间，摄影实践与女权主义思想形成了密切的联系：许多活跃于提高意识团体或拥护女权主义理论的艺术家选择摄影作为他们的表达方式，既是因为它能够把握与主体性和身体有关的问题，也因为一种揭开与西方视觉文化中普遍存在的性别差异相关的刻板印象的工具。摄影成为这些艺术家用来批评主导语言的象征秩序及其男性化变化的特权手段。