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 Francesca Rigotti
Here, an account is provided, in autobiographical form, of the path of the author toward philosophy, as a calling, from the choice of university faculty to the first experiences as researcher, until her encounter with the theme of metaphor, true love at first sight, and beyond. You can read about the birth of her form of thought: “impertinent thought,” including the contamination of genders and the philosophy of daily life,
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.
