Luisa Passerini was born in 1941 and educated at the University of Turin, graduating in philosophy and history in 1965.
[1] She was politically active as a student, and in 1967 she spent time in Dar es Salaam, studying and working with the Mozambican liberation movement Frelimo.
[3] Torino operaia e Fascismo (1984) used oral history to explore the self-representation of working-class men and women in the Fascist period.
[4] Autoritratto di gruppo (1988) combined oral history with novelistic treatment of a young woman's student experience in the late 1960s, with alternating chapters in diary form.
[2] In summer 1989 Passerini was visiting professor of history at the New School for Social Research in New York.