34.Angela Prudenzi. Con te o senza di te
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/phxb-ap40
gender/sexuality/italy is an online annual, peer-reviewed journal that publishes research on gendered identities and the ways they intersect with and produce Italian politics, culture, and society.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/phxb-ap40
DOI:https://doi.org/10.15781/cy2s-pm15
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/2myx-7q05
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/x45d-q327
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,
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.
by Julia Heim, Charlotte Ross, SA Smythe
The editorial includes the Guest Editors’ introductions to their respective areas. Julia Heim, Charlotte Ross, and SA Smythe offer a brief critical contextualization of current and ongoing sociopolitical issues undergirding the question of LGBTQIA+ rights in Italy. They reflect on anti-queer/anti-LGBT discrimination within academia, on intersectional solidarity and activism, and on the developing field of “Queer Italian Studies.” The editorial also provides a summary of the articles contained in the volume.
by Eva Nossem
This paper aims at examining the reception, (g)localization, and also (re)creation of different forms of “queer” in the Italian context. First, I conduct a semasiological analysis of the diachronic semantic and connotative development of the English-turned-global “queer” in order to provide a detailed insight into its palimpsestic meaning. The offensive qualities of the slur, I argue, provide the aggressive power required for self-definition in queer activism. In a next step,
by Matthew Zundel
This essay offers a reading of Mario Mieli’s militant political project through the theoretical lens of performativity. Performativity, suspended between, and fully incorporating both the linguistic and the theatrical, courses through Mieli’s cultural production. I begin with a discussion of the role of the travestito within the context of Mieli’s involvement in the emergence of gay theater in Italy in the late 1970s and its necessarily political valences.
by Alberica Bazzoni
This article explores some aspects of the relationship between feminism and queer in Italy today. There are significant areas where these two discursive and political paradigms have established and continue to establish productive, mutually reinforcing conversations and alliances. In other contexts, however, a sheer tension has emerged between the two, rooted in diverging views of the pivotal notion of “sexual difference.” The article sets out to investigate and compare queer and feminist approaches to difference,