(ANSA) – ROME, NOVEMBER 24 – ELENA LOEWENTHAL, FREEDOM WATCHED – BECAUSE WOMEN ARE DIFFERENT FROM MEN (THE SHIP OF THESEUS, PP 112, EURO 10).
The words we use every day, our gestures, the comments with which we accompany our thoughts, represent us much more than we believe. Elena Loewenthal invites us to choose them carefully, starting from one of the most debated themes of our time, gender discrimination, in her new book ‘Freedom Vigilated – Why women are different from men’, published by La nave di Teseo.
“There are words too many and others that are missing, when a woman is called” says Loewenthal who since 2020 is director of the Circolo dei Lettere Foundation in Turin and from 2015 to 2017 she was cultural attaché at the Italian embassy in Israel. .
Ancient wisdom, starting from the Bible, gave language the tools to tell the nuances of reality. The distracted use we make of it today is, on the contrary, a race to simplify, of which the expenses are often women, designated with belittling or imprecise formulas, forced to struggle even on a linguistic level to obtain what men seem to be entitled to. right.
Loewenthal tells the great deception of a battle that looks to equality instead of claiming complexity and difference. A front that argues about cultural endings or stereotypes, while “the feminine” is offended everywhere: in the registry office, in the workplace, in newspapers and on the web.
Knowing the history and the power and consequences of words thus becomes a way to personally participate in making a difference. There is still a long way to go and a long way from equality for Loewenthal “especially when it sets itself the goal of achieving equality,” she says. (HANDLE).
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