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In the context of Southern Europe, women's rights have been facing historical resistance linked to a legacy of dictatorships, fascism, and Catholicism. Wider processes of modernization have gradually challenged this legacy, causing a significant impact on the mobilization for women's rights. This article explores feminist collective action in Italy and Portugal in the 21st century, including pro-choice struggles connected to abortion in Portugal and the mobilizations against gender-based violence in Italy. In each country dominant themes and repertoires of collective action will be studied, as well as sources of internal conflict that include surrogacy and sex work. In the last section of the paper, we suggest that self-determination is a key concept through which contemporary feminist movements may overcome emerging political and theoretical challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Written in response to the French and English critics of the 17th and 18th centuries, Ludovico Muratori published the Della Perfetta Poesia Italiana in 1706. In this work, the academic sought to defend Italian poetry, reviewing the main poets that wrote in his language. Based on Muratori’s writings, this paper intends to discuss the reception of Dante Alighieri in Italy in the beginning of the 18th century. We will first discuss some of the features and topics of the poetic art in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. We will then proceed to report some of the Muratori’s comments about the notion of ingenium, a key concept in poetic theory. Finally, we will discuss Muratori’s critique of Dante Alighieri’s poetry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]