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 Giulia Simi
Through the analysis of some of the characters played by Monica Vitti in the context of the Commedia all’italiana, the paper aims to explore the connection between the construction of the new women’s gender subjectivity and the male violence in the early years of Italian Neo-feminism. In particular, the analysis will focus on Amore mio aiutami (Alberto Sordi,
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.
