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gender/sexuality/italy 10 (2023-2024) – Table of Contents

Nicoletta Marini-Maio Issue: Category: 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,

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Conservative Feminism / Femminismi di destra. Journal Editorial

Ombretta Frau, Juliet Guzzetta, Paola Bonifazio, Nicoletta Marini-Maio Issue: Category: Contents, Editorials, Themed Section

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.

 

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2.Anna Franchi, scrittrice e attivista bifronte: Avanti il divorzio e la cultura antropologica positivista

Cristina Gragnani Issue: Category: Themed Section

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,

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3.Futurist Genealogies of Giorgia Meloni’s Conservative Feminism

Erin Larkin Issue: Category: Themed Section

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,

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4.Il lato oscuro della maternità: Il femminismo di Eugenia Roccella

Veronica Frigeni Issue: Category: Themed Section

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,

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5.Eowyn (1976-1982): politica, fantasy e genealogia femminile a destra

Jordi Valentini Issue: Category: Themed Section

by Jordi Valentini

Seeking to counteract left-wing youth movements in the shared terrain of alternative publishing, right-wing youth in the 1970s discovered and appropriated Tolkien’s work, partly due to the general disdain or indifference towards him from the Italian left-leaning public and intellectuals. Tolkien’s anti-modern and traditionalist world became a refuge for a disillusioned generation critical of the Italian Social Movement (Movimento Sociale Italiano), the main conservative party, for its outdated structure and its unwillingness to give younger people a voice.

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6.Almost like a Virgin: Strategic Appropriation of Marian Symbolism, femminismo della differenza, and Fascist Feminism in Giorgia Meloni’s “Reverse Discourse.”

Diletta Pasetti and Nicoletta Marini-Maio Issue: Category: Themed Section

by Diletta Pasetti and Nicoletta Marini-Maio

This article undertakes a critical examination of Giorgia Meloni’s self-narrative of professional success and motherhood, situating it in dialogue with the symbolic and theological constructs associated with the Virgin Mary. By drawing on Mariological discourse, the study interrogates how Meloni’s articulation of her personal and political identity leverages iconic representations of femininity to reinforce or subvert established paradigms of gender and authority. It explores how Meloni draws on Mariology to shape her views on female agency and women’s roles in society,

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7.“Il Presidente” Giorgia Meloni. Right-Wing “Feminism,” Queerness, and Gender Neutrality in Contemporary Italian Politics

Amanda Minervini Issue: Category: Themed Section

by Amanda Minervini

Gender neutrality has recently entered the discourse on and within Italian language and culture while the war among genders is still unresolved. Teaching genderneutral/nonbinary Italian is a form of activism, and a way to teach inclusively while responding actively to changes occurring in both US and Italian culture. In this context, which shows how a portion of Italian speakers wants to move towards inclusion and modernity, the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni,

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8.Giorgia Meloni’s Italy: Conservative Feminism / Femminismi di destra. In conversazione con Dacia Maraini, Flavia Perina, Marina Terragni, and Nathasha Edirippulige Fernando

Ombretta Frau, Juliet Guzzetta Issue: Category: Invited Perspectives

by Ombretta Frau and Juliet Guzzetta

We envisioned this Invited Perspectives section as a space for dialogue with Italian public intellectuals from different political backgrounds, experiences, and even evolving positions. To our delight, Nathasha Edirippulige Fernando, Dacia Maraini, Flavia Perina, and Marina Terragni agreed to participate in our project. Our goal for this section was to discuss women and feminism in Italy in a succinct and direct manner following Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s historic election.

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