In Italy, this observation has been crucial to the literary culture of postwar feminism as articulated by Luisa Muraro, one of Ferrante's influences, and the Milan Woman's Bookstore Collective. As Rebecca Falkoff has suggested, Muraro's theory of affidamento, "a practice of 'putting faith in' or 'entrusting' between women ... would be the basis for a new symbolic order to counter patriarchy."' Second-wave calls for sisterhood relied on two premises: an equal rights platform that denied the specificity of sexual difference between women and men, and the fantasy of unity and consensus among women. In contrast, affidamento imagined that women could build relations independent of men, modeled on the ties between mothers and daughters. These relations did not always entail alignment. Nonalignment was key to figuring the idea of the political as an assortment of individuals rather than a falsely single voice.