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 Laura Samani
In this essay, Laura Samani addresses the rich symbolism of the theme of adolescence as it appears in her short film La santa che dorme. She describes adolescence as an internal war waged between the desire to grow up and the fear of leaving behind the securities of childhood. Samani analyzes her own adolescent experiences under the watchful eyes of the Church and adults, and the double natured friendship/rivalries as they resonate in the short film.
by Paolo Frascà
This article explores Umberto Saba’s (1983-1957) only and unfinished novel, Ernesto (1975), from the perspective of sexuality and Queer studies, while also paying attention to the novel’s language and its autobiographical underpinnings. By examining aspects of the work that render it an important testimony of queer desire, this essay aims to shine a light on Ernesto as an important Italian literary text and on the text’s ability to reveal significant and timeless aspects of the human condition,
by Antonella Grassi
This article aims to explore the gay movement of Parma in the 1970s, to show its implicit, ante litteram consonance with the queer discourse. The ability to reinvent itself was the peculiar feature of the Parma group, always aware of the constant evolution of artistic forms: this made it a unique case in Italy, as well as a privileged point of view for studying the evolution of the national gay movement.
Book Review: The Works of Elena Ferrante: Reconfiguring the Margins by Grace Russo Bullaro and Stephanie Love (editors)
By Stefania Lucamante
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/1rbs-pe76
Book Review: Encounters with the Real in Contemporary Italian Literature and Cinema by Loredana Di Martino and Pasquale Verdicchio (editors)
By Melina Masterson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/5sbf-cf40
Book Review: Gender, Narrative, and Dissonance in the Modern Italian Novel by Silvia Valisa
By Silvia Boero
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/40ye-m561
Book Review: The Maciste Films of Italian Silent Cinema by Jacqueline Reich
By Antonio Iannotta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/81dv-g255
Book Review: Naples’ Little Women: The Fiction of Elena Ferrante by Lisa Mullenneaux
By Victor Xavier Zarour Zarzar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/fsph-1404
Book Review: Italian Political Cinema: Public Life, Imaginary, and Identity in Contemporary Italian Film by Giancarlo Lombardi and Christian Uva (editors)
By Alberto Luca Zuliani
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/qddk-me29
Book Review: Italy’s Other Women: Gender and Prostitution in Italian Cinema, 1940–1965 by Danielle Hipkins
By Gloria Pastorino
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/02tf-x423
