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2. Il femminicidio nella stampa italiana: un’indagine linguistica

by Stefania Abis and Paolo Orrù

The perception of femicide and violence against women has known a constant evolution in recent years; both mass media and political and social actors tried to raise awareness on the issue. According to Diana Russell’s definition (the killing of females by males because they are females), femicide has to be considered as a social and political fact and not just as ordinary crimes: it represents extreme manifestations of male dominance over female.

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3. Il linguaggio di genere tra infanzia ed età adulta: una ricerca sul campo

di Benedetta Zaccherini

Molti sono stati gli studi che hanno osservato le variazioni del linguaggio maschile e femminile nel corso degli anni. All’interno di questo panorama, l’articolo vuole osservare eventuali caratteristiche tipiche del linguaggio maschile e femminile tra campioni intervistati nel Comune di Valsamoggia (Bologna), dall’infanzia (studenti di scuola primaria e secondaria di primo grado) fino all’età adulta (50 anni). La ricerca si è svolta nel periodo tra ottobre 2013 e gennaio 2014 ed è stata strutturata come intervista: agli informatori è stato chiesto di descrivere alcune immagini—agli adulti è stato sottoposto anche un cortometraggio—mentre venivano registrati.

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4. Un linguaggio più inclusivo? Rischi e asterischi nella lingua italiana

di Ilaria Marotta e Salvatore Monaco

Il saggio si presenta come un excursus sociologico e socio-linguistico che permette di analizzare in maniera critica i limiti e le prospettive dell’utilizzo di un linguaggio non aperto alle differenze, intrecciando i piani delle identità e delle strutture linguistiche. Il linguaggio non svolge soltanto una funzione informativa, ma riesce a mostrare e ribadire anche l’ordine sociale. Il suo uso nel quotidiano identifica socialmente i soggetti, sostenendo le ideologie legate a ruoli,

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5. Censoring The ‘Curious’ Minchia in Vitaliano Brancati’s Il Bell’Antonio: Intercultural Encounters and the Politics of Grammatical Gender

by Marisa Escolar

Vitaliano Brancati’s Il bell’Antonio (1949), a novel of erectile and social disfunction in fascist Catania, has been translated three times into English, the most translated postwar Italian novel. Arguing that proliferation of Bell’Antonio’s in translation actually reinforces an Anglo-American perception of the Italian “inetto” (bungler), this article looks at the intercultural encounter produced in translation alongside an intercultural encounter in one of the novel’s many epigraphs,

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Gender Domination (and Submission) and the Current Issue of g/s/i

Gender Domination (and Submission) and the Current Issue of g/s/i- Journal Editorial

by Nicoletta Marini-Maio

The editorial of g/s/i 2 contextualizes the call for papers on gender domination. The author argues that gender is a battlefield for domination and submission and focuses on institutional and social discourses that attempt to reorganize gender power relations around the heteronormative framework. Drawing examples from the contemporary social scene and media discourse,

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1. Desire and Resistance in Two Poems by Aldo Palazzeschi

Desire and Resistance in Two Poems by Aldo Palazzeschi

by Kristin Szostek Chertoff

Although sexuality has become a common theme in studies of Aldo Palazzeschi’s work, criticism has not yet fully explored how some of his earliest poems interact with the prevailing cultural assumptions and attitudes circulating when they were written and first published. This study approaches two poems—“Habel Nassab” (1909) and “I fiori” (1913)—that portray a poet protagonist’s emotionally disturbing encounter with a man who dominates through femininity,

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2. Contro il dominio del canone eterosessista. Una rilettura queer del personaggio di Turandot

Contro il dominio del canone eterosessista. Una rilettura queer del personaggio di Turandot

by Marta Riccobono

This article proposes a re-reading of the literary character of Turandot through the perspective of gender studies and queer theory, with particular reference to the works of Judith Butler and Eve Sedgwick. The tragicomedy Turandot, brought to the stage by Carlo Gozzi in 1762, and the homonymous Puccinian melodrama, represented for the first time at the Scala in 1926,

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3. Blue-Haired-Girl Mnemonic: Italian Sci-Fi Nirvana

Blue-Haired-Girl Mnemonic: Italian Sci-Fi Nirvana

by Roberta Tabanelli

This article analyzes the science fiction Italian film Nirvana (1997) directed by Oscar-winning Gabriele Salvatores. Specifically, Tabanelli proposes a gendered reading of the film focused on the character of Naima, a female hacker with blue hair and an implant in her forehead. The author claims that Nirvana’s closing scene, and in particular the last photogram, by re-configuring the characters’ roles in the story,

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4. The Performance of (Dis)orientation; a queer reading of Pietro Marcello’s La bocca del lupo (2009)

The Performance of (Dis)orientation; a queer reading of Pietro Marcello’s La bocca del lupo (2009)

by Oliver Brett

In this article, Oliver Brett focuses on the role of the “object” in Pietro Marcello’s docufiction film La bocca del lupo (2009). In a context where “difference” can be perceived as problematic particularly if shaped through a politics of “identity”— his analysis draws on a phenomenological framework in seeking to elucidate the “queer” features of this award winning film.

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5. “Almeno non hai un nome da negra”: Race, Gender and National Belonging in Laila Wadia’s Amiche per la pelle

“Almeno non hai un nome da negra”: Race, Gender and National Belonging in Laila Wadia’s Amiche per la pelle

by Sole Anatrone

Four women, from four corners of the world, sit at the kitchen table in a cramped, run-down apartment in downtown Trieste, awaiting the arrival of a fifth woman, their Italian language teacher. This little group of students is the focus of Laila Wadia’s novel Amiche per la pelle.

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