For the generation that grew up in the 1980s, the beginning of the French Revolution has a specific face: Lady Oscar, the character from a 1970s Japanese manga. Lady Oscar became more than just a media phenomenon; she created a new imagery and helped reshape the concepts of identity, heteronormativity, and gender that the movements of the 1970s in Italy had begun to deconstruct.

«Today, in this world we're navigating, where there are no certainties left, what would Lady Oscar do?» — Monia Andreani

This volume is a collective work dedicated to Monia Andreani, a feminist philosopher who tragically passed away in 2018. The text begins with the conference The Philosophy of Lady Oscar, which went viral online after her death, and continues with contributions from Fatima Farina, Francesca Palazzi Arduini, Anita Redzepi, Susanna Scrivo, and Alessandra Vincenti—Andreani’s scholars, friends, and colleagues. These contributions highlight her emotional and professional ties, especially with the students to whom she showed a path for analyzing the world through a gendered lens.

Andreani’s thought resonates throughout the various contributions, engaging in an ongoing dialogue with popular culture and the challenges of the present day, emphasizing the subversive potential of gender issues.

Contributions:

• Monia Andreani, The Philosophy of Lady Oscar
• Francesca Palazzi Arduini, Lady Oscar: Amazon Without a Kingdom
• Susanna Scrivo, Not All Masculinism Comes to Harm: A Brief History of Female Japanese Comics
• Fatima Farina, Alessandra Vincenti, "We Were Wrong About the Century": The Untimeliness, or the Art of Arriving Late (or Perhaps Early)
• Fatima Farina, Anita Redzepi, Dear Anita, Dear Fatima: Two Generations in Conversation About Lady Oscar