Effe (magazine)

Effe was a monthly feminist magazine which was published between 1973 and 1982. It was similar to Ms. Magazine.^[1] Effe was headquartered in Rome.^[2]

Effe

Categories	Feminist magazine
Frequency	Monthly
Founder	Daniela Colombo Alma Sabatini
Founded	1973
Final issue	1982
Country	Italy
Based in	Rome
Language	Italian
ISSN	0390-2013
OCLC	479215417

History and profile

Effe was established in 1973.^[3][4] Its stated goal was to provide women with a way to avoid their loneliness.^[5] The magazine inspired from the views of American feminist Shulamith Firestone.^[6] Daniela Colombo was one of the founders^[7] and editors-in-chief of the magazine,^[8] which was published on a monthly basis.^[3] The other founder was Alma Sabatini.^[2] The first editor of Effe was Gabriella Parca.^[9] In the 1970s Adele Cambria was among the editors of the magazine,^[10] which extensively dealt with the topics of love and affective relationships between couples.^[6] For the contributors of the magazine love was an abstract notion as well as a fact of daily life, both heterosexual and homosexual.^[6] Effe frequently attacked mainstream women's magazines in Italy.^[11]

Effe ceased publication in 1982.^[4][6]

References

1. Elisabetta Addis (1989). "What Women should Ask of the Law: Italian Feminist Debate on the Legal System and Sexual Violence". Harvard University. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
2. Elena Basilio (2017). "Donne è bello and the Role of Translation in the Migration of "Consciousness-Raising" from the US to Italy". In Olga Castro; Emek Ergun (eds.). Feminist Translation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives. New York; London: Routledge. p. 177. ISBN 978-1-317-39474-7.
3. Robin Morgan, ed. (1984). Sisterhood is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology. New York: Feminist Press at CUNY. p. 369. ISBN 978-1-55861-160-3.
4. Carl Ipsen (2016). Fumo: Italy's Love Affair with the Cigarette. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. p. 162. ISBN 978-0-8047-9839-6.
5. Eleanor Careless (2022). "Rome Awards: Chronicles of the Italian women's movement: transnational print cultures and the feminist avant-garde". Papers of the British School at Rome. 90: 362. doi:10.1017/s0068246222000150.
6. Penelope Morris (2013). "Feminism and Emotion: Love and the Couple in the Magazine Effe (1973–1982)". Italian Studies. 68 (3): 378–398. doi:10.1179/0075163413Z.00000000049. S2CID 143983293.
7. "Daniela Colombo". Negotiation (9). 1989.
8. Daniela Colombo (2004). "Striding forward: an Italian NGO in the developing nations". In Arvonne S. Fraser; Irene Tinker (eds.). Developing Power: How Women Transformed International Development. New York: Feminist Press at CUNY. p. 78. ISBN 978-1-55861-484-0.
9. Perry Willson (2009). Women in Twentieth-Century Italy. Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-137-12287-2.
10. Andrea Minuz (2015). Political Fellini: Journey to the End of Italy. New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books. p. 121. ISBN 978-1-78238-820-3.
11. Dalila Missero (2019). "Playboys and the Cosmo Girls: Models of Femininity in Italian Men's and Women's Magazines and the Popularization of Feminist Knowledge". AboutGender. 8 (16): 90. doi:10.15167/2279-5057/AG2019.8.16.1103.