Abstract
From the first months of the writing of the Quaderni del Carcere, Gramsci wrote about the centrality of the “safeguard of the female personality” in the context of a capitalist crisis that unfolded after World War I. Departing from this idea, the present article proposes to answer two questions: (a) What are the possible sources for Gramsci’s formulation in the prison writings on the political role of the feminine question? (b) How did this formulation develop along the prison notebooks? The text reconstructs the appearance of this subject in Gramsci’s writings before the imprisonment and after, exploring its specificities. It also discusses the importance of the personal experience of Gramsci, prisoner of the fascist regime, for a theoretical development of the feminine question as subaltern condition.
Antonio Gramsci; Feminine question; Feminism; Fascism