THE CRUEL DESTINY OF WOMEN IN POLITICS: WANDA MONTANELLI'S LOGBOOK

15 Years of politics lived by an "insider" - 30 months to draw up, organize and catalogue facts and papers and 2 hunger strikes: The new book of Wanda Montanelli, the historical women's leader of ‘Italia dei Valori' (a centre-left political party in Italy) who, above all, asks what happened to the Idv funds for promoting women, and who has continuously fought against male chauvanism and female discrimination

Rome, 3 January 2013. -"Slapped. The cruel destiny of women in politics. My fifteen dark years in the party of Di Pietro and other stories" is the diary of Wanda Montanelli, ex-head of the IDV Equal Oportunities Department, who narrates, day after day, all the goings-on inside Antonio Di Pietro's party - from the marginalization of women to the missing funds of Law 157/99. From two hunger strikes to the court cases where Di Pietro and his legal office promote the small parallel association parallel of the IDV party. From women's commitment to all the party activities to encounters with the many different types of people who surrounded the ex-magistrate of 'Mani Pulite'.
Published by Dante Alighieri, the book tells of 15 years of party life, initiatives in piazzas, sit-ins in Montecitorio, street demonstrations involving many women from all political leanings and different associations. Told in 290 pages, with 1,500 quotes from people, famous in politics and other institutions, as well as many other unknown activists who, together with women, have built, tirelessly and with many sacrifices, Italia dei Valori, the book places in the limelight the commitment of the many party activists who worked without any renumeration, the party being without resources, striving to create a 'clean' society. Able and strongly motivated people, who believed in a political change that never came about due to the dominance of those of questionable origins and no moral standards, and of whom, now, all is coming to light.

Wanda Montanelli's logbook is a story of civil passion, lived and told from within the party secretariats, with anecdotes of daily events, irony, a sense of humour, criticisms of discriminatory choices, dreams, small victories and disappointments, and with an unwavering hope for change despite the ordeals, the harsh repercussions exacerbated over time, and still weighing heavily and dramatically in Wanda's life, but who still continues to bravely battle on.

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DESTINO CANAGLIA DELLE DONNE IN POLITICA, DIARIO DI BORDO DI WANDA MONTANELLI