Soggetto nomade (Nomadic Subject) gathers, for the first time in one volume, photographs by five Italian photographers taken between the mid-1960s and the 1980s, offering glimpses of how female subjectivity was lived, represented and interpreted in a time of great social change in Italy. The years of transition from political radicalism to hedonism, the years of lead, were also years of great participation and civil conquests, mostly thanks to the feminist struggle. The book is a visual reflection on identity and representation, starting from the portraits of the transvestite community in Genoa, followed by portraits of actresses, writers and artists, shots of the feminist movements, women and girls in a Sicily disfigured by the mafia, and men who turned into women for a day at carnival in the small towns of Campania.