19. Italian Style: Fashion & Film from Early Cinema to the Digital Age
Book Review: Italian Style: Fashion & Film from Early Cinema to the Digital Age by Eugenia Paulicelli
By Rebecca Bauman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/sgzj-gy02
Gender / sexuality / italy
20. Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice
Book Review: Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice by Courtney Quaintance
By Chiara Girardi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/3qck-wy23
21. Annie Chartres Vivanti: Transnational Politics, Identity, and Culture
Book Review: Annie Chartres Vivanti: Transnational Politics, Identity, and Culture by Sharon Wood and Erica Moretti (editors)
By Silvia Valisa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/cdad-wn81
22. Goliarda Sapienza in Context: Intertextual Relationships with Italian and European Culture
Book Review: Goliarda Sapienza in Context: Intertextual Relationships with Italian and European Culture by Alberica Bazzoni, Emma Bond, and Katrin Wehling-Giorgi (editors)
By Tommasina Gabriele
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/fd5b-gz14
23. Dacia Maraini’s Narratives of Survival: (Re)Constructed
Book Review: Dacia Maraini’s Narratives of Survival: (Re)Constructed by Tommasina Gabriele
By Lisa Sarti
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/v1fy-6d39
24. How Italian Advertising Represents Women and Men. Towards a Methodology for the Semiotic Analysis of Stereotypes
by Giovanna Cosenza, Jennifer Colombari, and Elisa Gasparri
The paper presents the first results of a systematic and in-depth survey on about 8000 advertisements appeared from February to December 2013, and attempts to identify and characterize the gender stereotypes which can be found in them. Having conducted one of the first semiotic investigations on such an extended corpus, the authors also draw some general conclusions on the possibility, for the contemporary semiotic discipline,
25. Una femminista in incognito contro il femminicidio. Intervista a Marilù Oliva
by Marilù Oliva and Nicoletta Mandolini
The term femicide—the physical or psychological annihilation of a woman because she is a woman—has become an extensively used term in the mass media since 2012, following awareness campaigns led by feminist activists in Italy who introduced international theories of lethal gender violence. Contributing to recent discussions on the topic, some forms of artistic narration (literary, theatrical, and cinematic) have attempted to re-dignify stories and victims of femicide that the media has in many cases dismissed.
26. Fighting for Gender-Fair Language at the National Institute of Astrophysics of Italy
by Marina Orio
This essay describes the ongoing struggle of the author to change the culture of “tolerance” of women scientists in the academy and the “acceptance of a few exceptional women” into a culture of inclusion and diversity at the National Institute of Astrophysics of Italy (INAF), an endeavor advanced through the adoption of gender-fair language. Language usage in the Italian scientific and academic environments offers a particularly interesting case, given its unusual and complex development.