17.Queer
Review by Oliver Brett
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/PT0F-KR92
Gender / sexuality / italy
18.L’arte della gioia
Review by Beatrice Basile
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/H0J2-0Z76
19.Fuochi d’artificio
Review by Nicoletta Marini-Maio
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/V23E-GE32
20.Il ragazzo dai pantaloni rosa
Review by Tristan Venturi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/TAS6-AG26
gender/sexuality/italy 10 (2023-2024) – Table of Contents
Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Journal Editor
Paola Bonifazio, Invited Perspectives Editor
Ellen Nerenberg, Open Contributions and Continuing Discussion, Editor
Ombretta Frau and Juliet Guzzetta, Guest Editors
Leonardo Cabrini and Colleen Ryan, Reviews Editors
Samantha Gillen and Lisa Dolasinski, Managing Editors
Beatrice Basile, Deion Dresser, Katherine Travers, Assistant Editors
Journal Editorial
OMBRETTA FRAU, Mount Holyoke College
JULIET GUZZETTA, Michigan State University
PAOLA BONIFAZIO, University of Texas at Austin
NICOLETTA MARINI-MAIO, Dickinson College
Themed Section: Conservative Feminism / Femminismi di destra
Donne di destra / Women of the Right | OMBRETTA FRAU,
Conservative Feminism / Femminismi di destra. Journal Editorial
Journal Editorial by Ombretta Frau (Guest Editor), Juliet Guzzetta (Guest Editor), Paola Bonifazio (Invited Perspectives Editor), Nicoletta Marini-Maio (General Editor)
The editorial includes the Editors’ and Guest Editors’ introductions to their respective areas.
1.Donne di destra / Women of the Right
by Ombretta Frau and Juliet Guzzetta
The Guest Editors use a feminist lens to introduce and deconstruct the theme of “Donne di destra / Women of the Right” in the sociopolitical and cultural context of contemporary Italy.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/kf73-6c95
2.Anna Franchi, scrittrice e attivista bifronte: Avanti il divorzio e la cultura antropologica positivista
by Cristina Gragnani
Il romanzo Avanti il divorzio (1902) di Anna Franchi, emblematico dell’attivismo della scrittrice per i diritti delle donne nel contesto del Partito Socialista Italiano, è una pietra miliare nella letteratura femminista italiana del Novecento. Il romanzo è conosciuto nell’ambito degli studi di genere italiani per il coraggio e l’onestà con cui denuncia, ancor prima del noto Una donna di Sibilla Aleramo (1906), gli abusi del patriarcato sull’esistenza individuale,
3.Futurist Genealogies of Giorgia Meloni’s Conservative Feminism
by Erin Larkin
When looking for literary and cultural genealogies for Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s first female prime minister and co-founder of the ultraconservative Fratelli d’Italia, the women of Italian Futurism offer a revealing perspective. The historical avant-garde provides examples of the rhetoric of exceptionalism that continues to mark conservative feminism, particularly in the work of Benedetta Cappa. Meloni’s refrain—“Io sono Giorgia, sono una donna, sono una madre, sono italiana, sono cristiana”—reflects the same themes of nation,
4.Il lato oscuro della maternità: Il femminismo di Eugenia Roccella
by Veronica Frigeni
Eugenia Maria Roccella was appointed Minister for Family, Natality and Equal Opportunities in the government headed by Giorgia Meloni on October 22, 2022. The article engages Roccella’s idiosyncratic post-feminism, examining its conservative, populist and maternalist stance and assessing how it positions itself in relation to existing paradigms of sexual difference and queer feminism. In particular, reading the Minister’s theoretical and literary texts alongside her parliamentary speeches and interviews, the article interrogates Roccella’s discursive construction of motherhood from a pro-life,