Scaraffia Lucetta

Italian historian and journalist (born in Turin in 1948). After completing her university studies, she taught Contemporary History at La Sapienza University in Rome. She has reconstructed the role of women in history and studied female religiosity. Her publications include Donne ottimiste (2002, with A. M. Isastia), Italiane dall’Unità d’Italia alla prima guerra mondiale (2004, a three-volume biographical dictionary written with E. Roccella), Due in una carne (2008, with M. Pelaja), I cattolici che hanno fatto l’Italia (2011), Dall’ultimo banco. La Chiesa, le donne, il sinodo (2016), Storia della liberazione sessuale. Il corpo delle donne tra eros e pudore (The Body of Women between Eros and Modesty) (2019) and La donna cardinale (The Woman Cardinal) (2020). S. has collaborated with Corriere della Sera, Avvenire, Il Foglio and Il Riformista (among others), from 2012 to 2019 she edited the monthly magazine of L’Osservatore Romano Donne Chiesa Mondo and is a member of the National Bioethics Committee (2007).