14. Anorexic symptoms in Clara Sereni’s Casalinghitudine

Ioana Raluca Larco August 31, 2019 Issue: g/s/i 6 (2019) Category: Open Contributions

Structured like a cookbook, the autobiographical novel Casalinghitudine (1987) by Clara Sereni uses food preparation, consumption, and preservation as a narrative mechanism to reflect on the protagonist’s journey towards self-awareness and gender and ethnic identity formation. The highly subjective nature of this text is immediately obvious in several ways, such as the assertive tone of the recipes through the predominance of the agent ‘I’ and the overall organization of the book that unusually starts with a section on baby food.

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

Christopher Atwood August 31, 2019 Issue: g/s/i 6 (2019) Category: Continuing Discussions

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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