In Italy, only 4% of the streets of cities and towns are dedicated to female characters who for the most part are madonnas, saints and martyrs. And the artists? The scientists? The writers? Where are the great female voices?
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, Vanity Fair launches “The Geography of Women”, a project that combines publishing, public institutions and civil commitment around the theme of women’s emancipation. The aim is to start rewriting Italian cartography, giving space to female characters who have written great pages of our history.
Together with the association Female toponymy, the Condé Nast weekly promotes headings for streets, squares, courtyards and gardens, which will bear the name of great women. We started on 8 March 2021 from Florence, where one of the gardens overlooking Lungarno Colombo was dedicated to Tina Anselmi.
The header is accompanied by a QR code which refers to an in-depth analysis on the Vanityfair.it website to discover the story of every woman celebrated. Like Tina Anselmi who dedicated her life to the values ​​of freedom and democracy. The project of Vanity Fair it will continue for the next few weeks and will be crowned by a special issue on newsstands on 17 March.
“Florence for the International Women’s Day entitled a garden to the memory of Tina Anselmi: first woman minister, mother of the Republic, she dedicated her life to democracy, freedom and our country”, underlines the mayor of Florence Dario Nardella, «Young partisan relay, trade unionist, parliamentarian and then minister first of Labor and Social Security and then of Health, a figure who remains an example for everyone and that our city is proud to honor as it deserves. We owe crucial reforms to her, just think of the establishment of the National Health Service, the importance of which is now more clear to all of us, and moreover, laws that guaranteed progress for women’s rights and at work, without forgetting her commitment in the parliamentary commission of inquiry on lodge P2 which she chaired. She taught us that democracy is a precious asset, to be protected with care and if our society today is more equitable, just and tolerant, we owe it to her and to the many battles she had the courage to fight ».
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