Happiness and freedom, everyone or no one, the body and politics are the themes explored in these pages devoted to Rossana Rossanda (1924-2020), a girl who lived many lives in a single woman: partisan, art critic, translator, parliamentarian, writer, editorial director and founder of the newspaper Il Manifesto.

From the Resistance to the crisis of the PCI (Italian Communist Party), from the Red Brigades to feminism, the portrait of a life guided by doubt and unable to remain silent in the face of injustice. Radical and always committed.

The volume is issued in the OILÀ collection, edited by Chiara Alessi, which presents the stories of the women who were prominent in the twentieth century. Women on the Italian and international creative scene (ranging from design to fashion, architecture, music, illustration, graphics, photography and literature) who were outstanding in fields and professions that have invariably been considered the prerogative of men. The books, devised to be read aloud from beginning to end in forty-five minutes – a brief overview – are stories of people presented through a special focus on their biographies, works, private lives and public achievements.

The graphic design is by Studio Sonnoli.