Gender/sexuality/Italy, 7 (2020)
- 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, Samantha Gillen, Giorgio Losi, Natura Sant Foster, Katherine Travers, Assistant Editors
Table of Contents
Journal Editorial.
NICOLETTA MARINI-MAIO, Dickinson College, PAOLA BONIFAZIO, University of Texas at Austin, ELLEN NERENBERG, Wesleyan University
Collaborations
- “Scrivere di Islam”: A Collaborative Project SIMONE BRIONI, Stony Brook University, SHIRIN RAMZANALI FAZEL, Independent Scholar
- Working in the Shadows: Collaboration as Queer Practice SOLE ANATRONE, Vassar College, JULIA HEIM, University of Pennsylvania
- Coming Out/Coming of Age: A Decolonial, Inter-Institutional, Co-Curricular Collaboration SERENA BASSI, Yale University, ELLEN NERENBERG, Wesleyan University
Themed Section: Beside, Besides, and B-sides: Collaborations as Feminist and Decolonizing Practices.
- Riding the Stock Car to Sleep in the Stables: Migrant Agricultural Labor and Songs of Rebellion
DIANA GARVIN, University of Oregon - Addressing Each Other’s Eyes Directly: From Adriana Cavarero’s “Relating Narratives” to Elena Ferrante’s Intersectional Ethics of Narrative Relations
LOREDANA DI MARTINO, University of San Diego - Rural Italy in Feminist Writing: Dialogism, Polyphony, and Heteroglossia in Armanda Guiducci’s La donna non è gente VIVIANA PEZZULLO, Florida Atlantic University
Invited Perspectives:
- Side by Side: Female Collaboration in Ferrante’s Fiction and Ferrante Studies
STILIANA MILKOVA, Oberlin College - Where Myself Ends and Yourself Begins
VERONICA MOGNATO, Independent Scholar, ANA TREVIÑO, Independent Scholar - Collective Writing Projects as Sustainable Ecologies of Collaboration
PAOLO SAPORITO, Independent Scholar - Individual and Collaborative Film Studies in Italy: Legal Constraints and the Gender Balance
DAMIANO GAROFALO, Sapienza University of Rome, DOM HOLDAWAY, University of Urbino Carlo Bo - My Way to Philosophy
FRANCESCA RIGOTTI, University of Italian Switzerland
Open Contributions
- “Per me il documentario è relazione”: The Eloquence of Found Footage and Garment Workers’ Rights in Costanza Quatriglio’s Triangle
VALERIA G. CASTELLI, New York University
Continuing Discussions
- Colonial Legacies in Family-Making and Family-Breaking: Carla Macoggi’s Memoirs as Semi-Autobiography CARLA CORNETTE, Pennsylvania State University
- “C’è una famiglia che vuole un bambino e una donna che vuole farlo per loro”: La maternità surrogata nell’immaginario maschile gay LUCA GUIZZARDI, Università di Bologna
Book Reviews
- Lorenzo Bernini. Il sessuale politico. Freud con Marx, Fanon, Foucault
LORENZO BENADUSI, Università Degli Studi Roma Tre - Marina Bettaglio, Nicoletta Mandolini, and Silvia Ross, editors. Rappresentare la violenza di genere. Sguardi femministi tra critica, attivismo e scrittura
VANESSA FANELLI, The University of Texas at Austin - Vulca Fidolini. Fai l’uomo! Come l’eterosessualità produce le maschilità
ROBERT A. RUSHING, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Cesare Casarino and Andrea Righi. Another Mother: Diotima and the Symbolic Order of Italian Feminism by Cesare Casarino and Andrea Righi
SARA COLANTUONO, Brown University - Jacqueline Murray and Nicholas Terpstra, editors. Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy
IRENE ZANINI-CORDI, Florida State University - Mark Seymour. Emotional Arenas: Life, Love, and Death in 1870s Italy
DIANA MOORE, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY - Franco Baldasso. Curzio Malaparte la letteratura crudele
BEATRICE BAGLIVO, Università degli Studi di Torino/Université Côte d’Azur - Marisa Escolar. Allied Encounters: The Gendered Redemption of World War II Italy
RUTH GLYNN, University of Bristol - Penelope Morris and Perry Willson. La mamma. Interrogating a National Stereotype
ELENA MARIA D’AMELIO, University of San Marino - Tiziana De Rogatis. Elena Ferrante: Parole chiave
NICOLETTA MANDOLINI, FWO Postdoctoral Fellow KU Leuven - Gaia Giuliani. Race, Nation and Gender in Modern Italy. Intersectional Representations in Visual Culture
GIANMARCO MANCOSU, University of Warwick - Emanuela Abbatecola. Trans-migrazioni. Lavoro, sfruttamento e violenza di genere nei mercati globali del sesso
ROBERTO BENEDUCE, University of Turin - Áine O’Healy. Migrant Anxieties. Italian Cinema in a Transnational Frame
VALENTINA FRASISTI, Harvard University
Film, Theater and TV Series Reviews
- Emma Dante. Misericordia
MARIA MORELLI, University of Milan - Margherita Ferri. Zen sul ghiaccio sottile
LOUIS BAYMAN, University of Southampton - Simone Catania. Drive Me Home
SAMANTHA GILLEN, University of Pennsylvania - Pasquale Marrazzo. Te lo dico pianissimo
COSETTA GAUDENZI, University of Memphis - Alessandro Genovesi. Puoi baciare lo sposo
GAOHENG ZHANG, University of British Columbia - Costanza Quatriglio. Sembra mio figlio
GIOVANNA FALESCHINI LERNER, Franklin & Marshall College - Angela Prudenzi. Con te o senza di te
SUSANNA MANTIONI, Università degli Studi Roma Tre - Andrea De Sica, Anna Negri, and Letizia Lamartire. Baby
DANIEL PAUL, Brigham Young University - Duccio Forzano. That’s amore
LEONARDO CABRINI, Indiana University
Book Reviews – Addendum
- Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults
SABRINA OVAN, Scripps, The Women’s College