La Camera blu- "Policies of today",Numero monografico della Rivista Internazionale di Studi di Genere

Policies of today This monographic issue edited by Caterina Arcidiacono follows up La camera blu journal‘s on-line publishing. This number gathers together documents and contributions which help understand the challenges that contemporary society pose to women. Its purpose is to take into account how female condition is performed in a social context where relationships are far cry from the traditional patriarchal family standards. Yet, man and woman are in a context where environmental, working, and relational shapes struggle to find innovative forms of living together able to meet the needs of well-being, justice, and equality. Female condition poses new questions that cannot find the same answers as to the ones given to the frustrations of the past; this is, in fact, quite another context, where the clash between the two sexes is embedded in a freedom frame. Only if we comprehend how our social system has changed and how, albeit under new forms, it is still a bearer of ancient patriarchal dimensions, we will be able to understand outward freedoms, de-manded sacrifices, false opportunities, and the difficulty of being master of our own lives. Only if we comprehend that we will be able to understand emerging contradic-tions thereby fighting new battles.