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

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

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 Editor
  • Guido Capaccioli, Lisa Dolasinski, Samantha Gillen, Giorgio Losi, Katherine Travers, Assistant Editors

Journal Editorial.
NICOLETTA MARINI-MAIO, Dickinson College
PAOLA BONIFAZIO, University of Texas at Austin
ELLEN NERENBERG, Wesleyan University

Queer Italian Cultures. Themed Section Editorial.
JULIA HEIM, University of Pennsylvania
CHARLOTTE ROSS, University of Birmingham
SA SMYTHE, University of California, Los Angeles

Themed Section: Italian Queer Cultures.
JULIA HEIM, University of Pennsylvania
CHARLOTTE ROSS, University of Birmingham
SA SMYTHE, University of California, Los Angeles

  1. Queer, Frocia, Femminiellə, Ricchione et al. – Localizing “Queer” in the Italian Context
    EVA NOSSEM, Saarland University
  2. Mario Mieli, ovvero il maestro masochista: Performative Elements of a Perverse Militancy
    MATTHEW ZUNDEL, New York University
  3. A View on Queer and Feminism in Italy: Conflicts and Alliances
    ALBERICA BAZZONI, University of Warwick
  4. Translating Spanish Transfeminist Activism into Italian. Performativity, DIY, and Affective Contaminations
    MICHELA BALDO, University of Hull, University of Leicester
  5. Fabio Mollo’s Il padre d’Italia /There is a Light: A Visual Journey through Queer Ecology, EcoMasculinity, and Fatherhood
    DANILA CANNAMELA, Colby College 
  6. Teenage “Somatechnics”: Classed, Gendered, and Racialised Subjectivities in Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name and Gianfranco Rosi’s Fuocoammare 
    SAMUELE GRASSI, Monash University Prato Centre

Invited Perspectives: 
PAOLA BONIFAZIO, University of Texas at Austin

  1. Metastasio per trans
    EGON BOTTEGHI, Independent Scholar
  1. Valerie Solanas’s Trilogia SCUM: A feminist translation project of care. Interview/dialogue with Stefania Arcara and Deborah Ardilli   
    STEFANIA ARCARA, University of Catania
    DEBORAH ARDILLI, Independent Scholar     
    MICHELA BALDO, University of Hull, University of Leicester             
  2. Feminism Makes History in Verona: The Response to the World Congress of Families  
    ALESSANDRA MONTALBANO, University of Alabama  
  3. Maternità, relazione, vulnerabilità: Una prospettiva filosofica
    ANNA ARGIRÒ, Independent Scholar
  1. Raccontare una maternità diversa  
    ROSELLA SCHILLACI, Independent Scholar
  1. Fare Fotoromanzi: Un’intervista con Francesca Giombini
    PAOLA BONIFAZIO, University of Texas
    FRANCESCA GIOMBINI, Independent Scholar

Open Contributions
ELLEN NERENBERG, Wesleyan University

  1. Italian Office Workers from Comedy Italian Style to Ugo Fantozzi: A Gendered Perspective
    PAOLA D’AMORA, Independent Scholar
  1. Anorexic symptoms in Clara Sereni’s Casalinghitudine
    IOANA RALUCA LARCO, University of Kentucky in Lexington

Continuing Discussions
ELLEN NERENBERG, Wesleyan University

  1. “Meglio fascista che frocio!”: Denouncing the National Family in Modern Italy
    CHRISTOPHER ATWOOD, Independent Scholar

Book Reviews
ERICA MORETTI, Fashion Institute of Technology-SUNY 
COLLEEN RYAN, Indiana University

  1. Federica Valentini. Genealogie queer. Teorie critiche delle identità sessuali e di genere 
    LORENZO BENADUSI
  1. Ursula Fanning. Italian Women’s Autobiographical Writings in the Twentieth Century Constructing Subjects
    LAURA BENEDETTI
  1. Caterina Romeo. Riscrivere la nazione. La letteratura italiana postcoloniale
    ROSETTA GIULIANI CAPONETTO 
  1. Mauro Giori. Homosexuality and Italian Cinema, From the Fall of Fascism to the Years of Lead
    JOHN CHAMPAGNE
  1. Robin Pickering-Iazzi. The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature: Life Sentences and Their Geographies
    GIOVANNA DE LUCA
  1. Ryan Calabretta-Sajder. Divergenze in celluloide. Colore, migrazione e identità nei film gay di Ferzan Özpetek
    PAOLO FRASCÀ
  1. Francesca D’Alessandro Behr. Arms and the Woman: Classical Tradition and Women Writers in the Venetian Renaissance
    LUCIA GEMMANI
  1. Catherine Ramsey-Portolano. Performing Bodies. Female Illness in Italian Literature (1860-1920)
    JANET E. GOMEZ
  1. Giovanna Maina. Corpi che si sfogliano. Cinema, generi e sessualità su “Cinesex” (1969-1974)
    GIACOMO MANZOLI
  1. Angeliki Pollali and Berthold Hub (editors). Images of Sex and Desire     in Renaissance Art and Modern Historiography
    MARIANNA ORSI
  2. Alberica Bazzoni. Writing for Freedom: Body, Identity and Power            in Goliarda Sapienza’s Narrative
    STEFANIA PORCELLI

Film, Theater and TV Series Reviews
ERICA MORETTI, Fashion Institute of Technology-SUNY
COLLEEN RYAN, Indiana University

  1. Susanna Nicchiarelli. Nico, 1988
    REBECCA BAUMAN
  1. Ferzan Ozpetek. Napoli velata
    RUTH GLYNN
  1. Nina’s Drag Queens. Queen Lear
    MARIA MORELLI
  1. Valeria Golino. Euforia
    CATHERINE O’RAWE
  1. Alice Rohrwacher. Lazzaro Felice
    ELENA PAST
  1. Michele Placido, Andrea Molaioli and Giuseppe Capotondi. Suburra: Blood on Rome (seasons 1-2)
    DANA RENGA
  1. Saverio Costanzo. L’amica geniale/My Brilliant Friend
    ROBERTA TABANELLI