Women's resistance

Women were protagonists of the Resistance: providing assistance, fighting in the first person, risking their lives. A long-silenced "half of History" to which Benedetta Tobagi gives voice and face by resorting to all her talents as a historian, civil intellectual and writer: from the "good wife" who decides to take up arms to affirm an identity that goes beyond labels, to the girl who seeks redemption from an existence of misery and violence, from those who experience a sort of unprecedented motherhood in helping combatants, to those who feel committed to a "war on war", to the students who discover the taste of freedom in this dramatic adventure. In the background is the profile of an unfinished legacy that spills over into today: what is the role of women? How do we assert our identity in a patriarchal society? What is the relationship between civil and armed resistance, between the choice, or the need, to fight and the desire for peace?