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gender/sexuality/italy 8 (2021) – Table of Contents

g/s/i December 31, 2021 Issue: g/s/i 8 (2021) Category: Contents, Editorials, Collaborations, Gender Studies, Themed Section, Invited Perspectives, Open Contributions, Continuing Discussions, Reviews, Videos

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,

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Intersectionality in Italian histories, cultural products, and social practices

Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Paola Bonifazio, Ellen Nerenberg December 31, 2021 Issue: g/s/i 8 (2021) Category: Contents, Editorials, Collaborations, Gender Studies, Themed Section, Invited Perspectives, Open Contributions, Continuing Discussions, Reviews, Videos

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.

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2.Il paradigma dell’intersezionalità: Migrazione e disparità lavorativa in Italia

Claudia Santoni December 31, 2021 Issue: g/s/i 8 (2021) Category: Themed Section

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.

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3.Piazza dei Cinquecento in Igiaba Scego and Porpora Marcasciano

Alice Parrinello December 31, 2022 Issue: g/s/i 8 (2021) Category: Themed Section

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.

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6.Intersezionalità, posizionamento e studi critici della bianchezza

Gaia Giuliani December 31, 2021 Issue: g/s/i 8 (2021) Category: Invited Perspectives, Videos

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.

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8.Contrade Ribelli

Mariana Eugenia Califano December 31, 2021 Issue: g/s/i 8 (2021) Category: Invited Perspectives, Videos

by Mariana Eugenia Califano

What do the names of streets tell us? What story do they tell, and why do they tell it? Can toxic narratives resulting from revisionism be defused? Contrade Ribelli is a short film, made almost exclusively with archival images from Resistenze in Cirenaica in collaboration with Solipsia, that tells the path of the permanent cultural site in Bologna, the genesis of the odonomastic guerrilla warfare,

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9.All’incrocio tra storia e memoria: Resistenze in Cirenaica

Mariana Eugenia Califano and Jadel Andreetto December 31, 2021 Issue: g/s/i 8 (2021) Category: Invited Perspectives

Mariana Eugenia Califano and Jadel Andreetto

Since the birth of nation-states in Europe, the politics of memory and oblivion have played a decisive role in the construction of a national identity, presumably shared by the majority of citizens. The conflict generated between contrasting memories is also expressed in places and their odonyms, in the spaces crossed daily by the selves and others orphaned of a mutual recognition. The toponymy that celebrates a determined event,

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10.An Intersectional Approach to Education

Valentina Migliarini and Rahma Nur December 31, 2021 Issue: g/s/i 8 (2021) Category: Invited Perspectives, Videos

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by Valentina Migliarini and Rahma Nur

The video contribution brings together a leading scholar and a teacher/activist from Europe who adopt an intersectional approach to educational research and practice. Intersectionality illustrated how some people are subject to multiple inequalities how their experience is not just the sum of its parts (Steinmetz, 2020). The conversation recorded in the video attempts to answer the following questions: what does it mean to utilize an intersectional stance to research in the European context?

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5.Addressing Each Other’s Eyes Directly: From Adriana Cavarero’s “Relating Narratives” to Elena Ferrante’s Intersectional Ethics of Narrative Relations

Loredana Di Martino February 21, 2021 Issue: g/s/i 7 (2020) Category: Themed Section

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,

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4. Emigrazione, maternità ed emancipazione ne Il valore della donna è il suo silenzio

Mattia Lento August 31, 2018 Issue: G/S/I 5 (2018) Category: Themed Section

This paper aims at analyzing Gertrud Pinkus’s docu-fiction Il valore della donna è il suo silenzio (1980), a Swiss and German coproduction, its genesis, and its circulation amongst Italian migrant women in Switzerland. Pinkus’s film is one of the few works of the twentieth century that deals with Italian emigration from a gendered perspective. It tells the story of a woman who emigrates from the South of Italy to the city of Frankfurt.

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