ABSTRACT
IT IS WORTH REMEMBERING ANTONIO GRAMSCI, POLITICAL INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL activist, for at least three reasons: first, for his history as a revolutionary on the left who suffered and died for his cause under the fascist regime in Italy during the interwar years; second, for the powerful ensemble of ideas he bequeathed us; and third, for his place in the history of ideas across a range of disciplinesparticularly political and cultural theory. In the first section of this chapter I will consider Gramsci’s life, raising some feminist questions about it. In the second, I will offer an antireductionist reading of Gramsci’s conceptual legacy. In the third, I will trace the use of Gramsci’s work in feminist studies of education in the 1980s. I conclude by considering what a regenerated Gramsci might contribute to feminist educational scholarship today.
