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9. Verso la decostruzione dei ruoli genitoriali: il caso degli albi illustrati arcobaleno in Italia

Dalila Forni Issue: Category: Themed Section

In Italy, same-sex families are now a prominent reality despite the lack of legal and social recognition. Schools and families, for example, are still embarrassed and unprepared when talking about same-sex families. Since teachers, educators, and parents are usually not informed about homo-affective families and non-traditional family dynamics, this study suggests using books, and specifically picture books, as an educational tool that may help children in considering new points of view and reflecting upon unfamiliar and sometimes distant realities.

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10. La fertilità è un bene comune? Il “Fertility Day” in una prospettiva storica

Claudia Mantovani Issue: Category: Invited Perspectives

The polemics that accompanied the launch of Fertility Day by the Italian Ministry of Health in 2016 call for a historical reflection on the nexus between health policies, demographic questions, and gender roles that characterize the Italian public debate on the theme of reproduction. In the first half of the twentieth century, interest in the new key term ‘eugenics’ revealed itself in function of the definition of its own role in new national institutions on the part of intellectuals from a medical/scientific background.

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11. #FertilityDay e #FertilityFake. Una campagna di comunicazione pubblica e i suoi esiti inattesi

Marco Binotto, Paola Panarese, Stefania Parisi Issue: Category: Invited Perspectives

This article represents the first output of research on the communication campaign for “Fertility Day” that was launched by the Italian Ministry of Health in 2016. In front of a theme considered “sensitive” like that of couples fertility, discursive strategies, thematic frames, and the informative material distributed by the Ministry were at the center of an articulated dispute by audiences connected via social media and through creative-performative piazza protest by activist groups. The two forms of mobilization give rise to a response that can be read overall in terms of a true “counter campaign.” The areas of research reguarded the dimensions of public comunication,

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12. New Challenges for Human Reproduction: “Cross-Border Reproductive Care” and “Social Egg Freezing”

Lia Lombardi Issue: Category: Invited Perspectives

This article investigates the practices of ART (Assisted Reproductive Technology) through a sociological approach, with an eye to the political and legal issues relating to the process of the medicalization of human reproduction. It focuses on the most recent challenges in this field: “cross-border reproductive care” and “social egg freezing”. These two issues are analysed by looking at both the European and the Italian context, highlighting differences, contradictions and inequalities with regard to legal frameworks,

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13.Tutto parte da me: Alina Marazzi, regista. Videosaggio.

Nicoletta Marini-Maio Issue: Category: Invited Perspectives, Videos

Tutto parte da me: Alina Marazzi. Videosaggio.

This is a video-essay that Marini-Maio created from her interview with acclaimed filmmaker Alina Marazzi in New York City on March 17, 2018. The interview is presented in alternate editing with clips from Marazzi’s experimental non-fiction films Un’ora sola ti vorrei and Vogliamo anche le rose, and her stylistically hybrid theatrical feature Tutto parla di te. The goal of the video-essay is to unpack,

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14. “Dolorosa Mater” e “RiGenerazione.” Due video performance sulla forza generativa e curatrice del femminino

Francesca Lolli Issue: Category: Invited Perspectives

This article summarizes the artist’s poetics and her relationship with the themes of maternity and reproduction, in building feminine characters that she has interpreted in video-art projects and performances. In particular, Lolli presents here two of her works, Ri-Generazione (2017) and Mater Dolorosa (2017). Since the visual component is fundamental in her work, in order to further sketch Lolli’s own artistic path, photographs and video excerpts of her performances are included in this article.

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15. Cosa scrivevano le donne di fine Ottocento? Il contributo italiano alla Woman’s Building Library della World Fair di Chicago (1893)

Silvia Valisa Issue: Category: Open Contributions

Questo saggio presenta la ricostruzione della lista di libri inviati dall’Italia alla Woman’s Building Library della Fiera Mondiale di Chicago del 1893. I 222 testi, radunati nel corso di pochi mesi da Alice Howard Cady e Fanny Zampini Salazar, diventarono parte della prima biblioteca pubblica al mondo interamente dedicata alla scrittura al femminile. In quanto tali, costituiscono una testimonianza eccezionale della partecipazione delle donne italiane alla letteratura ed alle scienze mondiali. Discutendo le tipologie e i generi dei testi,

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16. “…gay ti viene proprio male…continuate a dire frocio….” La variazione diastratica e il politicamente corretto nella lingua del film Perfetti sconosciuti

Ettore Marchetti Issue: Category: Continuing Discussions

For both the speech that its characters emit as well as for its ability to convey complexity of language, cinematic dialogue has become a relatively stable indicator for contemporary Italian. Diaphasia (the situational context) and diastratia (references to social and professional status) are foundational axes for linguistic change. This essay examines the language of Perfetti sconosciuti/Perfect Strangers(Paolo Genovese, 2016), highlighting the increased influence of diaphasia on the characters’ social roles and on their linguistic expression.

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