Lea Melandri (born 1941) is an Italian feminist scholar, journalist and writer.
[3] Melandri and Elvio Fachinelli started a radical feminist journal L’erba voglio in 1971 and edited it until 1978 when it folded.
[5] She and other Milan-based Italian feminists, including Ciulia Alberti, Paola Melchiori and Adriana Monti, organized activities with housewives and factory workers between 1979 and 1983.
[4] Her another book was translated into English under the title of Love and Violence: The Vexatious Factors of Civilization in 2019.
[1] She has contributed to the daily newspaper Il manifesto, and in one of her articles she bitterly criticized Pope Benedict XVI in 2004 due to his letter containing a conservative and traditionalist view about women.