Elena Gatti Caporaso Explained

Elena Gatti Caporaso
Office:Member of the Senate of the Republic
Legislature:Legislature V of Italy
Parliamentarygroup:Socialist
Term Start:1969
Term End:1972
Constituency:Lombardy
Office1:Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Termstart1:1953
Termend1:1958
Legislature1:Legislature II of Italy
Parliamentarygroup1:Socialist
Constituency1:Pisa
Party:PSI
Occupation:Lawyer, civil servant

Elena Gatti Caporaso (2 March 1918 – 13 September 1999) was an Italian socialist politician and feminist.[1] [2]

Political career

She joined the Italian Socialist Party and played an important leadership role from 1949, as well as militating for civil rights as a member of the Unione donne italiane along with her friend Giuliana Nenni. In 1954, at the National Conference of Socialist Women, she defined emancipation as an issue common to all women, cutting across class lines.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Di Scala . Spencer . Italian Socialism: Between Politics and History . 1996 . Univ of Massachusetts Press . 136–137.
  2. Web site: Elena Gatti Caporaso . Fondazione Archivio Diaristico Nazionale . 3 December 2019.