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.
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; Paola Bonifazio presents the Invited Perspectives; and Ellen Nerenberg 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.
In 1975, the Associazione Italiana per l’Educazione Demografica (AIED) sponsored the publication of three fotoromanzi as part of a larger campaign effort to educate Italians on the benefits of birth control and the low risks of the contraceptive pill. Against the idea that romances could only be apolitical and escapist tools, the stories of relationships narrated in the AIED fotoromanzi aimed at spreading behavioral models that were deemed appropriate by its sponsor’s policy of public health.
