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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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6.Rural Italy in Feminist Writing: Dialogism, Polyphony, and Heteroglossia in Armanda Guiducci’s La donna non è gente

Viviana Pezzullo February 21, 2021 Issue: g/s/i 7 (2020) Category: Themed Section

by Viviana Pezzullo

Armanda Guiducci’s La donna non è gente (1977) is a volume collecting related autobiographical narratives in which collaboration is the result of the dialogic, polyphonic, and heteroglot relationship between Guiducci and the women narrators she interviews. Guiducci’s work proves how the notion of singular authorship and language of noi is inadequate to capture the diversity of women’s struggles across Italy. In La donna non è gente, the narrators–women from rural areas of north and of south Italy–embody through the alternance of Standard Italian and regional and local dialects the dialectics between urban and rural spaces.

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Gender/sexuality/Italy 6 (2019) – Table of Contents

g/s/i August 31, 2019 Issue: g/s/i 6 (2019) Category: Contents, Editorials, Themed Section, Invited Perspectives, Open Contributions, Continuing Discussions, Reviews

Table of Contents – Gender/sexuality/Italy, 6 (2019)

Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Journal Editor

Julia Heim, Charlotte Ross, and SA Smythe, Themed Section Guest Editors

Paola Bonifazio, Invited Perspectives Editor

Ellen Nerenberg, Open Contributions and Continuing Discussions Editor

Erica Moretti and Colleen Ryan, Reviews Editors

Victor Xavier Zarour Zarzar, Managing EditorGuido Capaccioli, Lisa Dolasinski, Samantha Gillen, Giorgio Losi, Katherine Travers, Assistant Editors

Journal Editorial.
NICOLETTA MARINI-MAIO, Dickinson College
PAOLA BONIFAZIO,

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Journal Editorial

Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Paola Bonifazio, Ellen Nerenberg August 31, 2019 Issue: g/s/i 6 (2019) Category: Contents, Editorials, Themed Section, Invited Perspectives, Open Contributions, Continuing Discussions, Reviews

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.

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Queer Italian Cultures. Themed Section Editorial.

Julia Heim, Charlotte Ross, SA Smythe August 31, 2019 Issue: g/s/i 6 (2019) Category: Editorials, Themed Section

by Julia Heim, Charlotte Ross, SA Smythe

The editorial includes the Guest Editors’ introductions to their respective areas. Julia Heim, Charlotte Ross, and SA Smythe offer a brief critical contextualization of current and ongoing sociopolitical issues undergirding the question of LGBTQIA+ rights in Italy. They reflect on anti-queer/anti-LGBT discrimination within academia, on intersectional solidarity and activism, and on the developing field of “Queer Italian Studies.” The editorial also provides a summary of the articles contained in the volume.

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1.Queer, Frocia, Femminiellə, Ricchione et al. – Localizing “Queer” in the Italian Context

Eva Nossem August 31, 2019 Issue: g/s/i 6 (2019) Category: Themed Section

by Eva Nossem

This paper aims at examining the reception, (g)localization, and also (re)creation of different forms of “queer” in the Italian context. First, I conduct a semasiological analysis of the diachronic semantic and connotative development of the English-turned-global “queer” in order to provide a detailed insight into its palimpsestic meaning. The offensive qualities of the slur, I argue, provide the aggressive power required for self-definition in queer activism. In a next step,

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2.Mario Mieli, ovvero il maestro masochista: Performative Elements of a Perverse Militancy

Matthew Zundel August 31, 2019 Issue: g/s/i 6 (2019) Category: Themed Section

by Matthew Zundel

This essay offers a reading of Mario Mieli’s militant political project through the theoretical lens of performativity. Performativity, suspended between, and fully incorporating both the linguistic and the theatrical, courses through Mieli’s cultural production. I begin with a discussion of the role of the travestito within the context of Mieli’s involvement in the emergence of gay theater in Italy in the late 1970s and its necessarily political valences.

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3.A View on Queer and Feminism in Italy: Conflicts and Alliances

Alberica Bazzoni August 31, 2019 Issue: g/s/i 6 (2019) Category: Themed Section

by Alberica Bazzoni

This article explores some aspects of the relationship between feminism and queer in Italy today. There are significant areas where these two discursive and political paradigms have established and continue to establish productive, mutually reinforcing conversations and alliances. In other contexts, however, a sheer tension has emerged between the two, rooted in diverging views of the pivotal notion of “sexual difference.” The article sets out to investigate and compare queer and feminist approaches to difference,

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4.Translating Spanish Transfeminist Activism into Italian. Performativity, DIY, and Affective Contaminations.

Michela Baldo August 31, 2019 Issue: g/s/i 6 (2019) Category: Themed Section

by Michela Baldo

This article examines the translations into Italian of four post-porn and transfeminist Spanish texts, written by the writers and performers Diana Torres and Itziar Ziga: Pornoterrorismo/Porn terrorism (2014), Fica Potens/ Powerful Cunt (2015), Vomitorium/Vomitorium (2017), and Diventare Cagna/Becoming a Bitch (2015). The texts were translated by a group of Italian transfeminist translators. The presentations of these translations, between the years 2014 and 2017,

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5.Fabio Mollo’s Il padre d’Italia /There is a Light: A Visual Journey through Queer Ecology, EcoMasculinity, and Fatherhood

Danila Cannamela August 31, 2019 Issue: g/s/i 6 (2019) Category: Themed Section

by Danila Cannamela

The movie Il padre d’Italia/ There is a Light (2017, dir. Fabio Mollo) tells the story of a road trip across Italy: Paolo and Mia, a gay man and a pregnant woman, meet by chance and travel from the north to the south. The Italian landscape becomes the setting of a narrative of displacement that challenges dominant gender-nature associations in contemporary Italy. The journey allows Mia to “move away” from her “natural” maternal role and Paolo to become the father of Mia’s daughter,

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