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.
Journal Editorial by Paola Bonifazio (Invited Perspectives Editor), Giovanna Maina (Guest Editor), Nicoletta Marini-Maio (General Editor), Sergio Rigoletto (Guest Editor), Federico Zecca (Guest Editor)
The editorial includes the Editors’ and Guest Editors’ introductions to their respective areas.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/0zkv-c957
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
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Journal Editorial
NICOLETTA MARINI-MAIO, Dickinson College,
Journal Editorial 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: “Intersectionality in Italian histories, cultural products, and social practices.” Marini-Maio also highlights the section Collaborations, which hosts discussions and descriptions of current scholarly collaborations. Paola Bonifazio presents the rationale of the Invited Perspectives.
Gender/sexuality/Italy, 7 (2020)
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, Samantha Gillen, Giorgio Losi, Natura Sant Foster, Katherine Travers, Assistant Editors
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Journal Editorial.
NICOLETTA MARINI-MAIO, Dickinson College,
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: “Beside, Besides, and B-sides: Collaborations as Feminist and Decolonizing Practices.” Paola Bonifazio presents the rationale of the Invited Perspectives. 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 Carla Cornette
Kkeywa: Storia di una bimba meticcia (2011) and La nemesi della rossa (2012) constitute the sequential memoirs of Carla Macoggi, Ethiopian-Italian author and attorney. They recount the case of an adoption of a meticcia/mixed-race Ethiopian-Italian child by a white Italian businesswoman in the 1970s in Addis Abeba and their subsequent migration to Italy. This analysis situates race and gender at the intersection of Critical Adoption Studies and Postcolonial Theory to reveal the persistence of the colonial practices of madamato marital arrangements and the disenfranchisement of the meticci children of Italian men and indigenous women in the former colonies which culminates in the transracial,
by Luca Guizzardi
The purpose of this essay is to analyze how surrogate motherhood is represented both in academic and scientific debates and in the everyday lives of gay men. The work is structured as follows: in the first part of the article, the author tries to pinpoint some important issues on surrogacy from two different point of views: surrogacy as gender trouble and surrogacy as feminism trouble. Subsequently, the symbolic and cultural representations of surrogacy by the gay men interviewed are presented.
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.
