The publishing house "Women's Revolt" was able to gain total editorial and economic autonomy by the constant use of writing and publication of ideas that contributed to the feminist movement.
[3] The Manifesto is a list of 65 points preceded by a quotation from Olympe de Gouges and included an overall analysis of the arguments that feminism would have made its own: the attestation and pride of difference against the claim of equality, the refusal of the complementarity of women in any area of life, the criticism of the institution of marriage, the recognition of women's work as productive work and, last but not least, the centrality of the body and the claim of a subjective sexuality free from male demands.
[citation needed] The need to pursue the principles of separatism and self-awareness was reaffirmed in March 1977 in the second manifesto, the Manifesto of Revolt - Io dico io,[4] published as an introduction to the collection of writings by Marta Lonzi, Anna Jaquinta and Carla Lonzi entitled The Presence of Man in Feminism.
The group took a new stance towards male culture, but above all towards the ambiguous attitudes of women who, despite being part of the movement, were unable to embrace the desired changes already expressed by feminism; specifically towards those who felt closer to the theories and male forms of struggle and not to personal experience linked to one's own sex.
[citation needed] Also born in 1970 in Milan was the Writings of Female Revolt, the first Italian feminist publishing house.