Mutamento sociale e scenari familiari complessi

Abstract

The years between 1968 and 1978 were crucial for Italy. During that decade, a series of cultural, social, and political changes transformed the country, allowing new social actors—particularly young people and women—to burst onto the public scene and challenge traditional roles that had demanded unconditional adherence to rigid rules, both in parent-child relationships and in those between men and women. The places where protest erupted were not limited to universities, factories, or public squares. Families, too, became arenas where tensions and conflicts emerged—conflicts that would later have positive effects in terms of the development of new freedoms and new forms of subjectivity, finally capable of asserting rights over the body, sexuality, and women’s self-determination. That decade was the backdrop for a veritable war, in which libertarian movements and powerful conservative forces faced off on opposing sides. The chapter analyzes these transformations and highlights the changes that have led to new forms of family and new subjectivities that claim the right to form families.