Lusenti brings to life a dialogue between women of the present and those of the past who envisioned and found the ‘courage to count’, pointing to a better future for us all.

The courage to count is an exploration of money as a human product, a means of change, an ethical tool: a collection of stories and anecdotes that shatter the cliché according to which women and finance belong to two distant and mutually exclusive spheres, uncovering the daily work of individuals to transform wealth into something tangible and positive for the community.

In a country in which many women still don’t have their own bank account and are not financially independent, instead depending on their families or romantic partners and thus are vulnerable to instances of financial abuse, a raising of awareness is needed to guarantee autonomy and fulfilment to those from whom it has historically been denied.

Natascha Lusenti introduces us to students, entrepreneurs, nonprofit workers and psychologists who work with money on a daily basis for the benefit of the community: from those fighting against gender violence to those who, through film, have succeeded in bringing awareness of what has long fallen to women to millions of people, from those who call for fair and equal pay in order to overcome social divisions to those who argue that care and domestic work must be financially compensated, from the world of cooperatives to that of ethical finance. Hers is a journey that brings feminist thinkers like Judith Butler and Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin to the experiences of the women she interviews, parsing through the thought of intellectuals such as Anna Bravo, Audre Lorde, Mark Fisher and Zygmunt Bauman.

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