Intellectual, Nomad, Polyglot: A Hungarian Witch and Italian Feminism

Abstract

This article focuses on Agnes Hochberg (1964–1995), a feminist and scholar, engaged in the Hungarian feminist movement since 1990 and at the same time, in a research project on the history of the Italian and American feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s, focusing in particular on the practice of consciousness-raising and the ways in which it was transmitted from one country to another. An analysis of her work is useful to look in a critical way at our approach to the history of neo-feminism, and to re- discuss methodological categories such as “transnational feminisms,” and the periodization of feminist movements.