Introduction: Romanticism. From Antipatriarchal Movement to Male Dominance's Disguise

Abstract

This issue of La camera blu. Journal of Women’s and Gender Studies aims at adopting a multi-disciplinary perspective (historical, ethnographical, sociological, literary) in analyzing the way Romanticism, a movement – even if contradictorily – anti-patriarchal in its XVIIIth - XIXth centuries’ origins, finished to be normalized, from the second XIXth century’s capitalist and nationalist era. From then, romantic rhetorics becomes more and more a cultural tool aimed at increasing the subordinate role of women and the exploitation of her care work , as well at legitimizing gender violence.