★In this book, the author traces a path from self-awareness of women's bodies to contemporary gender studies, reviewing recent women's reconceptualization of the body, the struggle for equal rights, the dilemmas of work and family, and reflecting on whether modern technology and cyberspace have brought emancipation or new oppressions to women.
★The concept of “body” is often considered private, but it also has significance in the political sphere. Many struggles for women's rights, such as that for the right of abortion and freedom from violence, are directly related to women's bodies. Thus the body entered the public sphere and became an important factor in feminist fights.
★Currently, more and more women are beginning to revisit themselves and their bodies. In this context, it is necessary to rethink the symbols and meanings behind the body.

Today the body placed at the center of debate in contemporary society is that of women, which becomes symbolic terrain, a field on which different and opposing forces fight.
In this book, Jennifer Guerra traces a path from the self-consciousness of the female body to contemporary gender studies, to recover feminist concepts and struggles and adapt them to the new millennium: the personal that is political, self-consciousness that passes through desire and Sisterhood, through sex education and the inclusion of trans and non-binary people.
At the center of this path is the rebellious and desiring body, the Subject from which we should start again, the only thing that no one can take away from us.
“The notion of 'public' seems to be the most irrelevant thing in our bodies; we are used to thinking about 'body' in private and personal terms. But the truth is that our bodies are not just our personal ones - we always have to deal with 'authority', and in this process the body is exposed, regulated, exploited, caged, ridiculed, judged and touched. Thus the body is also a political sphere, a physical space where we can make revolutions. For years, women have been engaging in politics through their bodies, fighting for abortion rights, recognition of transgender identities, and protection from gender-based violence. They have brought the body into the public sphere in ways that have never been done before.”

Jennifer Guerra
Born in 1995 in Brescia, Italy, is a writer and journalist. Her works has appeared in Soft Revolution Zine, Forbes, and The Vision, where she has worked as an editor since 2018. For this magazine she also edited the feminist-themed podcast AntiBodies. She is a fan of Ernest Hemingway. She lives and works in Milan.