Dynamics of identity and otherness within intercultural feminist practices in Italy

Drawing on fieldwork carried out in 2012-2013, this article explores the dynamics of identity and otherness within selected women's intercultural associations in Italy in the light of the following issue: how to acknowledge differences among women - based primarily on race', ethnicity, legal status/citizenship, class and age - while maintaining a common political project. This article focuses on the contexts, which facilitate the formation of such a project by promoting the contesting of rigid categorization of women on grounds of nationality or culture. It first focuses on what is referred to as a starting point a bit displaced', second on the desire to move beyond divisions on nationality grounds and third on the concept of hybridity as a bridge between women. At the same time, the article confronts those issues that might conceal power differentials among women and argues in favour of a notion of feminist intercultural reflexivity.