21.Il bambino nascosto
by Lorenzo Marmo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/bfpz-sk05
Gender / sexuality / italy
gender/sexuality/italy 8 (2021) – Table of Contents
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,
Intersectionality in Italian histories, cultural products, and social practices
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.
1.Collaborating during Covid
by Daniela Cavallaro, Luciana d’Arcangeli, and Claire Kennedy
This article describes our collaboration in creating a book containing plays on violence against women and interviews with the theater practitioners who wrote and staged them. The plays included in the book premiered between 2014 and 2018 in London, Sydney, and Rome. The three editors of the book are Italianists who work in Adelaide, Auckland, and Brisbane. Colleagues who have translated some of the plays are based in Melbourne and Sydney.
2.Il paradigma dell’intersezionalità: Migrazione e disparità lavorativa in Italia
by Claudia Santoni
The essay traces the emergence of the framework of intersectionality in the evolution of feminist theory in a contemporary key. The intersectionality perspective allows us to identify the oppression of women in its various configurations, showing female subjectivities that differ in terms of ethnicity, culture, religion, race. All forms of inequality, therefore, have an intersectional character being the product of the interaction of different factors which then affect the opportunities and choices of individuals.
3.Piazza dei Cinquecento in Igiaba Scego and Porpora Marcasciano
by Alice Parrinello
Piazza dei Cinquecento, in Rome, is dedicated to five hundred Italian colonising soldiers who died in nineteenth-century Eritrea. Contributing to the national narrative, the piazza constructs them as mere heroic victims. Simultaneously, the piazza is central in two novels that challenge normative discourses on Italianness: L’aurora delle trans cattive (2018) by Porpora Marcasciano and La linea del colore (2020) by Igiaba Scego.
4.Linguistica intersezionale in Italia
by Rosalba Nodari
What does it mean to use the framework of intersectionality in linguistic analysis? Is it possible to apply it to Italian linguistics in a fruitful manner? To answer these questions, it is necessary to understand how and when the terms “intersezionalità / intersezionale” entered the Italian lexicon. To elucidate the history of these terms, this article makes use of various corpora comprising written sources in Italian as well as online databases.
5.Il dibattito sull’intersezionalità in Italia
by Maura Gancitano
With the advent of social networks, many people in Italy began to know and spread the idea of intersectionality, creating a critical mass that disseminates content on feminism, rights struggles, and the intersection of oppressions. Consequently, people began to spread the idea that the fight against discrimination is a hypocritical whining, the result of an extreme susceptibility and the so-called “dictatorship of the politically correct.” In this article, Maura Gancitano analyzes the debate on intersectionality in Italy.
6.Intersezionalità, posizionamento e studi critici della bianchezza
by Gaia Giuliani
Intersectionality as an episteme, an epistemology, and a method, is essential to the black feminist project of fracturing Universalism within a feminist debate that is totally dominated by US white feminists. Thus, it is necessary to make the peculiarity of black women’s condition emerge. Within the deconstructive project of postmodern feminism, intersectionality becomes necessary to enable feminist scholars and activists to investigate constructions of normative white heteropatriarchy. In order to understand Italy as a fast-changing context and,
7.Raccontare e raccontarsi: Angelica Pesarini
by Paola Bonifazio and Angelica Pesarini
In this article, Paola Bonifazio and Angelica Pesarini discuss Pesarini’s short fiction included in Future: Il domani narrato dalle voci di oggi, a collection published by Effequ in 2020 and edited by Italian-Somali writer Igiaba Scego. In their conversation, the author and the reader address questions of literary representation vis-à-vis identity politics, debate how an intersectional approach affects aesthetic choices,