18.SKAM Italia – Season 4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/e34k-ss29
Gender / sexuality / italy
19.La vita davanti a se
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/62mn-km63
20.Tolo Tolo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/aax1-7516
gender/sexuality/italy 7 (2020) – Table of Contents
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
Table of Contents
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: “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.
1.Scrivere di Islam: A Collaborative Project
by Simone Brioni and Shirin Ramzanali Fazel
Simone Brioni and Shirin Ramzanali Fazel discuss their collaboration, with a particular emphasis on the co-written scholarly text Scrivere di Islam: Raccontare la diaspora (Venezia: Cà Foscari Edizioni, 2020).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/ppbq-rj67
2.Working in the Shadows: Collaboration as Queer Practice
by Sole Anatrone & Julia Heim
With this article we invite the reader to participate in our multimediatic conversation about collaboration as a queer practice. We map out the ways working together can be generative through an elaboration of the queer theoretics of collaboration as a moving, living evolving archive. Through the example of our translation of Smagliature, a book written by several transnational transfeminist groups, we show how collective scholarly work done outside the university calls into question established practices and frameworks of academic legitimacy.
3.Coming Out/Coming of Age: A Decolonial, Inter-Institutional, Co-Curricular Collaboration
by Serena Bassi & Ellen Nerenberg
This article describes and reflects upon a pedagogical project that depended on collaboration between the two authors, upper-level Italian students at Wesleyan University and the Bologna-based LGBTQ+ center, Il Cassero. The collaboration centered on and unfolded from an undergraduate course entitled “Coming Out/Coming of Age: Narratives of Becoming in Contemporary Italian Culture” taught by Ellen Nerenberg. The course sought to introduce students to a number of Italian coming of age literary and visual texts,
4.Riding the Stock Car to Sleep in the Stables: Migrant Agricultural Labor and Songs of Rebellion
by Diana Garvin
Under Mussolini’s dictatorship, both the physical abuses of a misogynist state and the political power of female friendship were written in the sensory details of agricultural workers’ everyday lives. This article uses archival and melodic evidence from the sensorial world of interwar Italy to explore four interlinked case studies, ultimately revealing what is at stake in women’s work songs. First, written testimonials and transcriptions from oral interviews show that, for many mondine,
5.Addressing Each Other’s Eyes Directly: From Adriana Cavarero’s “Relating Narratives” to Elena Ferrante’s Intersectional Ethics of Narrative Relations
by Loredana Di Martino
Narratives that provide honest portrayals of women’s relationships appear to be very popular at the moment. This may seem as nothing new since feminist authors have recast female friendship as a potential site of subversion at least since the seventies. However, as critics have highlighted, it is particularly since the eighties and nineties that representations of ambivalent female relations have become more prominent, mostly as a result of the influence of intersectional and decolonial theories such as those pioneered,