Lapis (magazine)
Director | Lea Melandri |
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Categories | Feminist magazine |
Frequency | Quarterly Monthly |
Publisher | Tartaruga |
Founder | Lea Melandri |
Founded | 1987 |
First issue | November 1987 |
Final issue | December 1996 |
Country | Italy |
Based in | Milan |
Language | Italian |
Lapis was an Italian language feminist magazine based in Milan, Italy, with the subtitle percorsi della riflessione femminile (paths of female reflection in English).[1] It was in circulation between 1987 and 1997.
History and profile
Lapis was launched in 1987, and the first issue appeared in November that year.[2] The founder was a feminist theorist, Lea Melandri.[3] The magazine was started to document the women's transversal reflections.[2]
The publisher of the magazine changed over time. A company in Milan, Faenza, was the publisher from June 1989.[1] Then the magazine was published on a quarterly basis by a feminist publishing house, Tartaruga, in Milan from March 1993.[1][4] Later the frequency of the magazine was switched to monthly.[5] Lea Melandri was also the director of Lapis from its start to its closing in 1996.[6][7]
Lapis covered a wide variety of topics from women in workforce to their contributions to cultural development.[4] The last issue appeared in December 1996.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d "Lista dei periodici" (in Italian). Fondazione Gramsci Emilia-Romagna.
- ^ a b "Lapis Percorsi della riflessione femminile" (in Italian). Biblioteca delle Donne. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
- ^ Giovanni Zaccherini (5 August 2016). "Amore e violenza". Wall Street Magazine (in Italian). Retrieved 21 September 2021.
- ^ a b Maria Ines Bonatti (1997). "Feminist periodicals 1970-". In Rinaldina Russell (ed.). The Feminist Encyclopedia of Italian Literature. Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press. pp. 103–105. ISBN 978-0313294358.
- ^ "Feminist Duration Reading Group: Lea Melandri, Love and Violence". Space Studios. 6 March 2018. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
- ^ Franca Fossati (Spring 1994). "A new phase of reconstruction". Connexions (45).
- ^ Federica Perinzano (17 May 2021). "Questo corpo". Nido (in Italian). Retrieved 21 September 2021.
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