Keywords

• This essay reconstructs the events of trade union feminism
• an experience that developed from the early 70s until the threshold of the 80s
• representing an original and still little investigated chapter in the more general history of Italian neo-feminism.
• Using the new sources available today in the archives of feminism
• the essay analyzes the forms of contamination and mutual interchange between the most widespread practices of the feminist movement (discovery of subjectiveness
• self-consciousness
• separatism) and the struggles and contractual claims of the workersâ€
• ™
• movement
• with particular relevance to working hours and conditions. Several of the corsi 150 ore delle donne
• or «womenâ€
• ™
• s 150-hour courses»
• provided for by the national collective bargaining agreement of metalworkers signed in the spring of 1973
• are described and analyzed. The main topics of the courses
• which were organized throughout Italian national territory
• were female sexuality
• motherhood
• abortion
• and health at the workplace