Democrazia, scuola ed emancipazione femminile nel pensiero di Dina Bertoni Jovine

The contribution investigates the role played by a particularly significant figure in the history of education in post-war Italy, namely Dina Bertoni Jovine. The aim of the work is not only to highlight the great contribution made by the scholar in the construction of the “open to all” school according to the constitutional mandate, but also to emphasize a sensitivity towards women's issues in the educational field. When feminism in Italy was still grappling with issues of gender citizenship between the 1950s and 1960s, and thus with themes related to the major issues of emancipatory feminism, Bertoni Jovine, in designing the important work The Encyclopedia of Women, in two volumes, already demonstrates a sensitivity to the themes of women’s sexuality and bodies that would only be brought to light by the feminism of the 1970s.