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gender/sexuality/italy 8 (2021) – Table of Contents

gender/sexuality/italy, 8 (2021) 

Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Journal Editor
Paola Bonifazio, Invited Perspectives Editor
Ellen Nerenberg, Open Contributions and Continuing Discussions Editor
Erica Moretti and Colleen Ryan, Reviews Editors
Victor Xavier Zarour Zarzar and Lisa Dolasinski, Managing Editors
Arianna Avalle, Beatrice Basile, Leonardo Cabrini, Magda Collazo, Jacob DeCarli, Samantha Gillen, Katherine Travers, Assistant Editors

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Journal Editorial
NICOLETTA MARINI-MAIO, Dickinson College, 

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Intersectionality in Italian histories, cultural products, and social practices

Journal Editorial by Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Paola Bonifazio, Ellen Nerenberg

The editorial includes the Editors’ introductions to their respective areas: Nicoletta Marini-Maio announces the topic and guest editors of the Themed Section: “Intersectionality in Italian histories, cultural products, and social practices.” Marini-Maio also highlights the section Collaborations, which hosts discussions and descriptions of current scholarly collaborations. Paola Bonifazio presents the rationale of the Invited Perspectives.

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gender/sexuality/italy 7 (2020) – Table of Contents

Gender/sexuality/Italy, 7 (2020) 

Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Journal Editor
Paola Bonifazio, Invited Perspectives Editor
Ellen Nerenberg, Open Contributions and Continuing Discussions Editor
Erica Moretti and Colleen Ryan, Reviews Editors
Victor Xavier Zarour Zarzar and Lisa Dolasinski, Managing Editors
Arianna Avalle, Beatrice Basile, Samantha Gillen, Giorgio Losi, Natura Sant Foster, Katherine Travers, Assistant Editors

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Journal Editorial.
NICOLETTA MARINI-MAIO, Dickinson College, 

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Journal Editorial

by Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Paola Bonifazio, Ellen Nerenberg

The editorial includes the Editors’ introductions to their respective areas: Nicoletta Marini-Maio announces the topic and guest editors of the Themed Section: “Beside, Besides, and B-sides: Collaborations as Feminist and Decolonizing Practices.” Paola Bonifazio presents the rationale of the Invited Perspectives. details the contents of the Open Contributions and the section Continuing Discussions, which hosts informed voices on themes developed in previous issues of g/s/i.

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13.Colonial Legacies in Family-Making and Family-Breaking: Carla Macoggi’s Memoirs as Semi-Autobiography

by Carla Cornette

Kkeywa: Storia di una bimba meticcia (2011) and La nemesi della rossa (2012) constitute the sequential memoirs of Carla Macoggi, Ethiopian-Italian author and attorney. They recount the case of an adoption of a meticcia/mixed-race Ethiopian-Italian child by a white Italian businesswoman in the 1970s in Addis Abeba and their subsequent migration to Italy. This analysis situates race and gender at the intersection of Critical Adoption Studies and Postcolonial Theory to reveal the persistence of the colonial practices of madamato marital arrangements and the disenfranchisement of the meticci children of Italian men and indigenous women in the former colonies which culminates in the transracial,

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14.“C’è una famiglia che vuole un bambino e una donna che vuole farlo per loro”: La maternità surrogata nell’immaginario maschile gay

by Luca Guizzardi

The purpose of this essay is to analyze how surrogate motherhood is represented both in academic and scientific debates and in the everyday lives of gay men. The work is structured as follows: in the first part of the article, the author tries to pinpoint some important issues on surrogacy from two different point of views: surrogacy as gender trouble and surrogacy as feminism trouble. Subsequently, the symbolic and cultural representations of surrogacy by the gay men interviewed are presented.

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Gender/sexuality/Italy 6 (2019) – Table of Contents

Table of Contents – Gender/sexuality/Italy, 6 (2019)

Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Journal Editor

Julia Heim, Charlotte Ross, and SA Smythe, Themed Section Guest Editors

Paola Bonifazio, Invited Perspectives Editor

Ellen Nerenberg, Open Contributions and Continuing Discussions Editor

Erica Moretti and Colleen Ryan, Reviews Editors

Victor Xavier Zarour Zarzar, Managing EditorGuido Capaccioli, Lisa Dolasinski, Samantha Gillen, Giorgio Losi, Katherine Travers, Assistant Editors

Journal Editorial.
NICOLETTA MARINI-MAIO, Dickinson College
PAOLA BONIFAZIO,

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Journal Editorial

by Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Paola Bonifazio, Ellen Nerenberg

The editorial includes the Editors’ introductions to their respective areas: Nicoletta Marini-Maio announces the topic and guest editors of the Themed Section; Paola Bonifazio presents the Invited Perspectives; and Ellen Nerenberg details the contents of the Open Contributions and the section Continuing Discussions, which hosts informed voices on themes developed in previous issues of g/s/i.

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15. “Meglio fascista che frocio!”: Denouncing the National Family in Modern Italy

This paper parses the discourses of family, the nation and deviance in contemporary Italy. It questions how Italy’s far-right paints both queer Italians and recent immigrants as a dual threat to the proper national family.  Queer subjects menace because they are thought too non-reproductive. Foreigners are, instead, considered too reproductive, as immigrants’ birthrates have come to outpace those of Italian-born women. In this logic, the national family is always-already heterosexual and bound to propagate straight,

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16. “…gay ti viene proprio male…continuate a dire frocio….” La variazione diastratica e il politicamente corretto nella lingua del film Perfetti sconosciuti

For both the speech that its characters emit as well as for its ability to convey complexity of language, cinematic dialogue has become a relatively stable indicator for contemporary Italian. Diaphasia (the situational context) and diastratia (references to social and professional status) are foundational axes for linguistic change. This essay examines the language of Perfetti sconosciuti/Perfect Strangers(Paolo Genovese, 2016), highlighting the increased influence of diaphasia on the characters’ social roles and on their linguistic expression.

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