29. Ferrante Fever
Film Review: Ferrante Fever by Giacomo Durzi
By Nicoletta Marini-Maio
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/s6aw-0315
Gender / sexuality / italy
30. Femminismo!
Film Review: Femminismo! by Paola Columba
By Lucia Cardone
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/76c0-e209
31. Libere
Film Review: Libere by Rossella Schillaci
By Alberto Fabris
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/2p3x-mc12
32. Un altro me
Film Review: Un altro me by Claudio Casazza
By Ombretta Frau
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/r8sv-pp37
Gender/sexuality/Italy 4 (2017) – Table of Contents
Table of Contents – Gender/sexuality/Italy, 4 (2017)
Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Journal Editor
Paola Bonifazio and Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Themed Section and Invited Perspectives Editors
Ellen Nerenberg, Open Contributions and Continuing Discussions Editor
Clarissa Clò and Laura Di Bianco, Reviews Editors
Erica Moretti, Managing Editor
Amanda Bush, Thera Dal Prà Iversen, Delphine Dall’Agata, Brian DeGrazia, Victor Xavier Zarour Zarzar
Themed Section: Girl Cultures in Italy from Early Modern to Late Capitalism.
Girl Cultures in Italy from Early Modern to Late Capitalism. Journal Editorial
by Paola Bonifazio, Nicoletta Marini-Maio, and Ellen Nerenberg
The editorial includes the Editors’ introductions to their respective areas: Paola Bonifazio and Nicoletta Marini-Maio discuss the Themed Section and the Invited Perspectives; Ellen Nerenberg presents the Open Contributions and the new section, Continuing Discussions, which hosts informed voices on themes developed in previous issues of g/s/i.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/cj1b-3j07
1. Girlhood Constructed: Portrayals of Childhood in Italian Renaissance Biographies
by Sienna Hopkins
This article explores the divergent representations of girlhood in female commemorative biographies from the early 16th century and the spiritually exemplary biographies of secular women in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. While the commemorative biographies of Battista Sforza, Bianca Maria Sforza and Irene di Spilimbergo follow the traditional tropes of childhood representation for the genre, they nonetheless embody a fuller representation and acceptance of girlhood than that of the later,
2. The Oratorio Femminile: Young Women’s Socialization and Growth in Post-War Italy
by Daniela Cavallaro
The few academic studies which look at the development and goals of the Catholic youth centres known as oratori tend to privilege the oratorio maschile over its all-girl counterpart. This article aims to bring to light the experience of the oratorio femminile as an important moment of socialization and growth for girls, teenagers and young women in the post-World War II years. It first provides a brief introduction regarding the origins and development of the oratory in Italy.
3. Scrivere dalla parte delle bambine: infanzia e adolescenza femminile nella narrativa di Alice Ceresa
by Viola Ardeni
L’articolo propone un’analisi dell’espressione e rappresentazione dell’infanzia femminile nei due romanzi della scrittrice italo-svizzera Alice Ceresa (1923-2003), La figlia prodiga del 1967 e Bambine del 1990, alle quali Ceresa dà un’originale impronta sperimentale oltre che femminista. Si mostra che l’attenzione all’infanzia femminile sia indicativa non solo di una costante contenutistica delle opere ceresiane, ma costituisca anche una scelta ideologica: una bambina in crescita è, per Ceresa,
4. Rita Pavone’s Musicarelli: Rethinking Genre and (Young) Women’s Representation
by Stephanie Hotz
This essay examines Rita Pavone’s star image and musical films of the 1960s, including a close analysis of two of her most famous musicarelli, Rita la zanzara (Rita the Mosquito, 1966) and its sequel Non stuzzicate la zanzara (Don’t Sting the Mosquito, 1967). While studies on the postwar “woman’s film” have focused primarily on melodramas,