Résumé
In the last decade, even in Italy, thanks in particular to the #metoo movement, many women have broken the silence about the violence they have experienced. The feminism movement of the 1970s – that had proclaimed "the private is political" – had not brought liberation to the threshold of the intimate. The social and political revolution that characterized #metoo has unsurprisingly spread to literature: numerous stories have been published addressing topics considered taboo. The novel I propose to analyze contributes to breaking taboos in the field of (non-)motherhood: Antonella Lattanzi published an autobiographical novel in 2023, Cose che non si raccontano [Things we don't tell]. After two elective abortions, at the age of 40 Antonella decided that she wanted to be a mother. After several unsuccessful attempts, she and her partner embarked on a M.A.P. (Medically Assisted Procreation), and eventually became pregnant with triplets developed from a single embryo, a very rare, high-risk pregnancy. Drawing on the philosophical and political reflections of Camille Froideveaux-Metterie, who argues that we currently engage in a "battle of the intimate" and that breaking the taboos means putting into words the intimate experiences - even genital ones - of people identified as women, I propose to study how the intent of breaking of the taboos is addressed in Lattanzi’s book. Which style does the author use? What are her intentions? And at what cost? More broadly, this reflection on the notion of taboo around M.A.P., V.I.P. or "pregnancy loss" will lead us to question the place of these issues relating to women's bodies in Italian society.