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gender/sexuality/italy 11 (2025) – Table of Contents

Issue: Category: Contents, Editorials, Themed Section, Invited Perspectives, Open Contributions, Continuing Discussions, Reviews, Videos

Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Journal Editor, Continuing Discussions Editor
Paola Bonifazio, Invited Perspectives Editor
Ellen Nerenberg, Open Contributions Editor
Alice Parrinello, Guest Editor
Leonardo Cabrini, Erica Moretti, and Colleen Ryan, Reviews Editors
Guido Capaccioli, Lisa Dolasinki, and Samantha Gillen, Managing Editors
Beatrice Basile, Matthew Guyton-Docherty, Deion Dresser, Mattia Mossali, Francesca Passaseo, Nicolò Salmaso, and Katherine Travers, Assistant Editors
Sofia-Teresa Di Bacco, Student Assistant

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Journal Editorial

ALICE PARRINELLO,

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7.A Queer Perspective on the Italian South? Some Methodological Notes; or, How to Read as a Southern Queer

Goffredo Polizzi Issue: Category: Invited Perspectives

by Goffredo Polizzi

This article develops a queer methodology to rethink Southern Italy by examining the intertwined histories of Italian emigration and colonialism, focusing on their gendered and sexualized dimensions. Challenging nationalist narratives, it foregrounds marginalized identities and destabilizes binaries such as Italian/foreigner and insider/outsider. By connecting internal and external colonial memories through a transnational lens, the approach engages with contemporary Italy’s migrant realities and social transformations. It offers a critical framework that fosters solidarity and deepens understandings of Southern Italy’s past,

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8.Within and Beyond the Queer Italian South: A Conversation with Francesca Romana Ammaturo

F.R. Ammaturo, P. Bonifazio, A. Parrinello Issue: Category: Invited Perspectives

by Francesca Romana Ammaturo, Paola Bonifazio and Alice Parrinello

This conversation explores Dr. Francesca Romana Ammaturo’s practice, stemming from her work on queerness in Apulia. It tackles key questions related to a new understanding of queerness in the South, such as the politics of (un)detectability, activism, the tension between being an insider/outsider, and tourism. At the same time, it touches upon academia, its taxonomizing tendencies, its contribution to activism, and its potential acts of critical fabulation.

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9.Southern Speculations on the Mediterranean Beach

Sergio Rigoletto Issue: Category: Invited Perspectives, Videos

Video presentation by Sergio Rigoletto (click on the link to start the video)

This position paper critically engages with the formulation “New Queer South” that gives the title to a recent special issue of gender/sexuality/Italy. It proposes to think about the queer south as a speculative geography in contradistinction to the dominant imaginary of the nation and the necropolitical border regime of Fortress Europe. Focusing on the Mediterranean beach as a spectral archive,

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10.Postcards from Sicily

Martina Martonsky Issue: Category: Invited Perspectives

by Martina Martonsky

Postcards from Sicily is a body of work started in 2021 that reimagines the figures of the monster and the animal—traditionally used to demonize women, queers, and Southerners—as guardians of an ancient, unruly power. Drawing from Mediterranean landscapes, the project explores the South as a space of queer, decolonial resistance, where hybrid and wild bodies exist unapologetically, in fierce intimacy with nature. Over time, the work has evolved into tracing a local cultural genealogy rooted in Greek mythology,

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8.Giorgia Meloni’s Italy: Conservative Feminism / Femminismi di destra. In conversazione con Dacia Maraini, Flavia Perina, Marina Terragni, and Nathasha Edirippulige Fernando

Ombretta Frau, Juliet Guzzetta Issue: Category: Invited Perspectives

by Ombretta Frau and Juliet Guzzetta

We envisioned this Invited Perspectives section as a space for dialogue with Italian public intellectuals from different political backgrounds, experiences, and even evolving positions. To our delight, Nathasha Edirippulige Fernando, Dacia Maraini, Flavia Perina, and Marina Terragni agreed to participate in our project. Our goal for this section was to discuss women and feminism in Italy in a succinct and direct manner following Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s historic election.

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6.La sessuopolitica del porno: L’hard di Silvio Bandinelli e Mario Salieri

Pietro Adamo Issue: Category: Invited Perspectives

by Pietro Adamo

In the twentieth century many historians, philosophers, psychologists, and sociologists have emphasized the relationship between sexuality and politics, giving in the meantime a new sense—much more political—to pornography and its historical developments. But pornography, especially after its almost worldwide legal legitimation (between Sixties and Eighties), seems to present a singular antinomy: on the one hand the various pornographic practices—writing, movies, live performances, photos—seem to enforce a liberationist ideology, aimed against traditional ways of looking to sexuality,

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7.Cosa resterà di questi anni porno? Fenomenologia della post-pornografia fra tv e Twitch

Bruno Surace Issue: Category: Invited Perspectives

by Bruno Surace

If the context of online cultures has definitively reshaped the way in which online content is produced and enjoyed, this also applies to mainstream pornography. This is rapidly passing (or has passed) from a “traditional” fruition context to a new “post-pornographic” structure, in which live streaming through webcams and one-to-one customized content replace the classic tube sites. These new pornographic dynamics, certainly consolidated in the pandemic context, take on a particular cultural relevance when they are subjected to processes of effective normalization of porn,

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8.Interview with Teresa Ciabatti: The Least Beloved, The Most Free

Marta Cerreti Issue: Category: Invited Perspectives

by Marta Cerreti

In January 2022, I met with Italian contemporary writer Teresa Ciabatti to discuss her latest works and her experience as a woman writer in a male-dominated industry. By drawing on Ciabatti’s best-known work La più amata (2017), the title of this interview addresses a common issue for women writers: they are welcome in the literary industry provided they follow the established rules. Since 2017, Teresa Ciabatti has continuously broken conventions,

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

g/s/i Issue: Category: Contents, Editorials, Collaborations, Themed Section, Invited Perspectives, Open Contributions, Continuing Discussions, Reviews, Videos

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

Table of Contents

Journal Editorial
NICOLETTA MARINI-MAIO, Dickinson College, 

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