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10.Maternità, relazione, vulnerabilità: Una prospettiva filosofica

Anna Argirò Issue: Category: Invited Perspectives

by Anna Argirò

This article focuses on motherhood as a point of arrival for the biological and social spheres, as well as the public and private, the physical and psychic. Feminist philosophies of our age converge and confront each other around this topic. The article proposes that we emancipate motherhood from its biological status by elevating it into a philosophical category which allows us to reflect on the complexity of the human condition and initiate a dialogue between the varying philosophical perspectives of contemporary feminism.

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11.Raccontare una maternità diversa

Rossella Schillaci Issue: Category: Invited Perspectives

by Rosella Schillaci

In this article, Schillaci writes about the making of the documentary film Ninna nanna prigioniera (2016), filmed inside a special block within Turin, Italy’s jail, where convicted mothers can choose to have their children living with them in a cell until they are three years old. The filmmaker retraces the various stages of the project, from conception to pre-production and filming. She describes research questions, themes at the heart of the film’s story,

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12.Fare Fotoromanzi: Un’intervista con Francesca Giombini

Paola Bonifazio and Francesca Giombini Issue: Category: Invited Perspectives

by Paola Bonifazio and Francesca Giombini

Also known as fotoromanzi (in Italian), roman-photos (in French), and fotonovelas (in Spanish), “photoromances” are illustrated stories composed of photographs and written texts (captions and balloons) and published serially in magazines. Born in Italy in 1947 and then exported all over the world, selling millions of copies per week,photoromances are demeaned and chastised in public opinion, and rarely studied by scholars,

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13. Italian Office Workers from Comedy Italian Style to Ugo Fantozzi: A Gendered Perspective

Paola D'Amora Issue: Category: Open Contributions

Represented as a male-dominated space, the office is a privileged site of production of masculine identities in comedy Italian style. The high-ranking male clerical worker is therein depicted as a paradigm of successful masculinity in the Italian economy’s boom years. A trademark of successful masculinity, office design and its filmic representations has evolved throughout the decades, to reflect status and rank, and also a muted aesthetic taste. Comedy Italian style was not the first to represent office interior space as much as to appropriate it (alongside the restaurant,

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14. Anorexic symptoms in Clara Sereni’s Casalinghitudine

Ioana Raluca Larco Issue: Category: Open Contributions

Structured like a cookbook, the autobiographical novel Casalinghitudine (1987) by Clara Sereni uses food preparation, consumption, and preservation as a narrative mechanism to reflect on the protagonist’s journey towards self-awareness and gender and ethnic identity formation. The highly subjective nature of this text is immediately obvious in several ways, such as the assertive tone of the recipes through the predominance of the agent ‘I’ and the overall organization of the book that unusually starts with a section on baby food. 

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15. “Meglio fascista che frocio!”: Denouncing the National Family in Modern Italy

Christopher Atwood Issue: Category: Continuing Discussions

This paper parses the discourses of family, the nation and deviance in contemporary Italy. It questions how Italy’s far-right paints both queer Italians and recent immigrants as a dual threat to the proper national family.  Queer subjects menace because they are thought too non-reproductive. Foreigners are, instead, considered too reproductive, as immigrants’ birthrates have come to outpace those of Italian-born women. In this logic, the national family is always-already heterosexual and bound to propagate straight,

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