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.
Book Review: Forging Shoah Memories: Italian Women Writers, Jewish Identity, and the Holocaust by Stefania Lucamante
by Gabriella Romani
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/s81e-w052
Book Review: ll colore della nazione edited by Gaia Giuliani
by Anita Pinzi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/bz07-pa16
Book Review: Omofobia, Bullismo, Linguaggio giovanile by Dario Accolla
by Fabrizio Piovesan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/gxtr-8s31
Book Review: Over the Rainbow City. Towards a New LGBT Citizenship in Italy edited by Fabio Corbisiero
by Elisabetta Ruspini
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/yykn-8862
Gender/sexuality/Italy, 2 (2015)
Themed Section: “Gender Domination” – Nicoletta Marini -Maio (Editor)
Gender Domination (and Submission) and the Current Issue of g/s/I. Journal Editorial, by Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Dickinson College, USA
Desire and Resistance in Two Poems by Aldo Palazzeschi, by Kristin Szostek Chertoff, New York University, USA
Contro il dominio del canone eterosessista. Una rilettura queer del personaggio di Turandot by Marta Riccobono,
Gender Domination (and Submission) and the Current Issue of g/s/i- Journal Editorial
by Nicoletta Marini-Maio
The editorial of g/s/i 2 contextualizes the call for papers on gender domination. The author argues that gender is a battlefield for domination and submission and focuses on institutional and social discourses that attempt to reorganize gender power relations around the heteronormative framework. Drawing examples from the contemporary social scene and media discourse,
Invited Perspectives on Gender Domination-Invited Perspectives Editorial
by Paola Bonifazio
The Invited Perspectives Editorial introduces the articles of this section by contextualizing them to the topic of the themed section, “gender domination.” It also highlights the gaps in this section that meaningfully address unsolved issues in contemporary discourses of feminism and male/female domination.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/p518-kx91
The Fifty Shades of (the) Grey (Zone), or, the Absent BDSM Essay in the g/s/i Issue on Domination. Open Contributions Editorial
by Ellen Nerenberg
“The Fifty Shades of the Gray Zone” explores the reception of E. L. James’ bestselling trilogy, Fifty Shades of Grey, and the reception of the print and film versions in Italy.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/7qvh-5c48
Desire and Resistance in Two Poems by Aldo Palazzeschi
by Kristin Szostek Chertoff
Although sexuality has become a common theme in studies of Aldo Palazzeschi’s work, criticism has not yet fully explored how some of his earliest poems interact with the prevailing cultural assumptions and attitudes circulating when they were written and first published. This study approaches two poems—“Habel Nassab” (1909) and “I fiori” (1913)—that portray a poet protagonist’s emotionally disturbing encounter with a man who dominates through femininity,
Contro il dominio del canone eterosessista. Una rilettura queer del personaggio di Turandot
by Marta Riccobono
This article proposes a re-reading of the literary character of Turandot through the perspective of gender studies and queer theory, with particular reference to the works of Judith Butler and Eve Sedgwick. The tragicomedy Turandot, brought to the stage by Carlo Gozzi in 1762, and the homonymous Puccinian melodrama, represented for the first time at the Scala in 1926,
