category: Invited Perspectives

7.Metastasio per trans

Egon Botteghi August 31, 2019 Issue: g/s/i 6 (2019) Category: Invited Perspectives

by Egon Botteghi

The “musicians” (euphemism used for the castrated singers) appear in Italy by the end of the sixteenth century, following a Papal Decree that forbade women to sing in church and consequently in theatres. Throughout the following three centuries, musicians ruled the European music scene, becoming one of the most important exported “goods” from Italy. Created by other men for artistic as well as political and devotional purposes, these men are described in the literature of the time as “chimeric beings,” halfway between a man and a woman,

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8.Valerie Solanas’s Trilogia SCUM: A feminist translation project of care. Interview/dialogue with Stefania Arcara and Deborah Ardilli.

Stefania Arcara, Deborah Ardilli, Michela Baldo August 31, 2019 Issue: g/s/i 6 (2019) Category: Invited Perspectives

by Stefania Arcara, Deborah Ardilli, Michela Baldo

This interview focuses on the recent publication of Trilogia SCUM (2017), the Italian translation and retranslation of the complete works by radical lesbian feminist Valerie Solanas (editors Stefania Arcara and Deborah Ardilli). Solanas’s publication is discussed as a feminist translation project of care: through the use of abundant paratextual material, and through the restoration of Solanas’s uncensored SCUM Manifesto (1967), Arcara and Ardilli have joined efforts in reconstituting the legitimacy of Solanas as a feminist writer,

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9.Feminism Makes History in Verona: The Response to the World Congress of Families

Alessandra Montalbano August 31, 2019 Issue: g/s/i 6 (2019) Category: Invited Perspectives, Videos

by Alessandra Montalbano

The last weekend of March 2019, Verona was at the center of media attention for having hosted the XIII World Congress of Families (WCF). However, the feminist response to this ultra-conservative and religious event became the true news. The transnational feminist movement Non Una Di Meno (NUDM) organized a three-day mobilization that included the biggest march in the history of Verona and had a strong impact on public opinion.

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10.Maternità, relazione, vulnerabilità: Una prospettiva filosofica

Anna Argirò August 31, 2019 Issue: g/s/i 6 (2019) Category: Invited Perspectives

by Anna Argirò

This article focuses on motherhood as a point of arrival for the biological and social spheres, as well as the public and private, the physical and psychic. Feminist philosophies of our age converge and confront each other around this topic. The article proposes that we emancipate motherhood from its biological status by elevating it into a philosophical category which allows us to reflect on the complexity of the human condition and initiate a dialogue between the varying philosophical perspectives of contemporary feminism.

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11.Raccontare una maternità diversa

Rossella Schillaci August 31, 2019 Issue: g/s/i 6 (2019) Category: Invited Perspectives

by Rosella Schillaci

In this article, Schillaci writes about the making of the documentary film Ninna nanna prigioniera (2016), filmed inside a special block within Turin, Italy’s jail, where convicted mothers can choose to have their children living with them in a cell until they are three years old. The filmmaker retraces the various stages of the project, from conception to pre-production and filming. She describes research questions, themes at the heart of the film’s story,

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12.Fare Fotoromanzi: Un’intervista con Francesca Giombini

Paola Bonifazio and Francesca Giombini August 31, 2019 Issue: g/s/i 6 (2019) Category: Invited Perspectives

by Paola Bonifazio and Francesca Giombini

Also known as fotoromanzi (in Italian), roman-photos (in French), and fotonovelas (in Spanish), “photoromances” are illustrated stories composed of photographs and written texts (captions and balloons) and published serially in magazines. Born in Italy in 1947 and then exported all over the world, selling millions of copies per week,photoromances are demeaned and chastised in public opinion, and rarely studied by scholars,

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10. La fertilità è un bene comune? Il “Fertility Day” in una prospettiva storica

Claudia Mantovani August 30, 2018 Issue: G/S/I 5 (2018) Category: Invited Perspectives

The polemics that accompanied the launch of Fertility Day by the Italian Ministry of Health in 2016 call for a historical reflection on the nexus between health policies, demographic questions, and gender roles that characterize the Italian public debate on the theme of reproduction. In the first half of the twentieth century, interest in the new key term ‘eugenics’ revealed itself in function of the definition of its own role in new national institutions on the part of intellectuals from a medical/scientific background.

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11. #FertilityDay e #FertilityFake. Una campagna di comunicazione pubblica e i suoi esiti inattesi

Marco Binotto, Paola Panarese, Stefania Parisi August 30, 2018 Issue: G/S/I 5 (2018) Category: Invited Perspectives

This article represents the first output of research on the communication campaign for “Fertility Day” that was launched by the Italian Ministry of Health in 2016. In front of a theme considered “sensitive” like that of couples fertility, discursive strategies, thematic frames, and the informative material distributed by the Ministry were at the center of an articulated dispute by audiences connected via social media and through creative-performative piazza protest by activist groups. The two forms of mobilization give rise to a response that can be read overall in terms of a true “counter campaign.” The areas of research reguarded the dimensions of public comunication,

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12. New Challenges for Human Reproduction: “Cross-Border Reproductive Care” and “Social Egg Freezing”

Lia Lombardi August 30, 2018 Issue: G/S/I 5 (2018) Category: Invited Perspectives

This article investigates the practices of ART (Assisted Reproductive Technology) through a sociological approach, with an eye to the political and legal issues relating to the process of the medicalization of human reproduction. It focuses on the most recent challenges in this field: “cross-border reproductive care” and “social egg freezing”. These two issues are analysed by looking at both the European and the Italian context, highlighting differences, contradictions and inequalities with regard to legal frameworks,

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13.Tutto parte da me: Alina Marazzi, regista. Videosaggio.

Nicoletta Marini-Maio August 31, 2018 Issue: G/S/I 5 (2018) Category: Invited Perspectives, Videos

Tutto parte da me: Alina Marazzi. Videosaggio.

This is a video-essay that Marini-Maio created from her interview with acclaimed filmmaker Alina Marazzi in New York City on March 17, 2018. The interview is presented in alternate editing with clips from Marazzi’s experimental non-fiction films Un’ora sola ti vorrei and Vogliamo anche le rose, and her stylistically hybrid theatrical feature Tutto parla di te. The goal of the video-essay is to unpack,

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