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5.Eowyn (1976-1982): politica, fantasy e genealogia femminile a destra

Jordi Valentini December 1, 2024 Issue: g/s/i 10 I-II (2023-2024) Category: Themed Section

by Jordi Valentini

Seeking to counteract left-wing youth movements in the shared terrain of alternative publishing, right-wing youth in the 1970s discovered and appropriated Tolkien’s work, partly due to the general disdain or indifference towards him from the Italian left-leaning public and intellectuals. Tolkien’s anti-modern and traditionalist world became a refuge for a disillusioned generation critical of the Italian Social Movement (Movimento Sociale Italiano), the main conservative party, for its outdated structure and its unwillingness to give younger people a voice.

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7.“Il Presidente” Giorgia Meloni. Right-Wing “Feminism,” Queerness, and Gender Neutrality in Contemporary Italian Politics

Amanda Minervini December 1, 2024 Issue: g/s/i 10 I-II (2023-2024) Category: Themed Section

by Amanda Minervini

Gender neutrality has recently entered the discourse on and within Italian language and culture while the war among genders is still unresolved. Teaching genderneutral/nonbinary Italian is a form of activism, and a way to teach inclusively while responding actively to changes occurring in both US and Italian culture. In this context, which shows how a portion of Italian speakers wants to move towards inclusion and modernity, the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni,

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4.Riding the Stock Car to Sleep in the Stables: Migrant Agricultural Labor and Songs of Rebellion

Diana Garvin February 21, 2021 Issue: g/s/i 7 (2020) Category: Themed Section

by Diana Garvin

Under Mussolini’s dictatorship, both the physical abuses of a misogynist state and the political power of female friendship were written in the sensory details of agricultural workers’ everyday lives. This article uses archival and melodic evidence from the sensorial world of interwar Italy to explore four interlinked case studies, ultimately revealing what is at stake in women’s work songs. First, written testimonials and transcriptions from oral interviews show that, for many mondine,

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Journal Editorial

Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Paola Bonifazio, Ellen Nerenberg August 31, 2019 Issue: g/s/i 6 (2019) Category: Contents, Editorials, Themed Section, Invited Perspectives, Open Contributions, Continuing Discussions, Reviews

by Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Paola Bonifazio, Ellen Nerenberg

The editorial includes the Editors’ introductions to their respective areas: Nicoletta Marini-Maio announces the topic and guest editors of the Themed Section; Paola Bonifazio presents the Invited Perspectives; and Ellen Nerenberg details the contents of the Open Contributions and the section Continuing Discussions, which hosts informed voices on themes developed in previous issues of g/s/i.

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

Christopher Atwood August 31, 2019 Issue: g/s/i 6 (2019) 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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10. La fertilità è un bene comune? Il “Fertility Day” in una prospettiva storica

Claudia Mantovani August 30, 2018 Issue: G/S/I 5 (2018) Category: Invited Perspectives

The polemics that accompanied the launch of Fertility Day by the Italian Ministry of Health in 2016 call for a historical reflection on the nexus between health policies, demographic questions, and gender roles that characterize the Italian public debate on the theme of reproduction. In the first half of the twentieth century, interest in the new key term ‘eugenics’ revealed itself in function of the definition of its own role in new national institutions on the part of intellectuals from a medical/scientific background.

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18. Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy

Alessio Ponzio August 25, 2015 Issue: G/S/I 2 (2015) Category: Reviews

Book Review: Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy by John Champagne

By Alessio Ponzio

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/33qa-hj35

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19. Bianco e Nero: Storia dell’identità razziale degli italiani

Shelleen Greene August 25, 2015 Issue: G/S/I 2 (2015) Category: Reviews

Book Review: Bianco e Nero: Storia dell’identità razziale degli italiani by Gaia Giuliani and Cristina Lombardi-Diop

by Shelleen Greene

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/ypp5-v675

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Ricezione di Vincere

Valerio Coladonato May 24, 2014 Issue: G/S/I 1 (2014) Category: Themed Section

Virilità fascista e mascolinità berlusconiana nella ricezione di Vincere

di Valerio Coladonato

La ricezione del film Vincere (Marco Bellocchio, 2009) fornisce un utile banco di prova per osservare il modo in cui le figure di Silvio Berlusconi e Benito Mussolini sono state affiancate nel discorso pubblico in Italia. L’accoglienza critica e le reazioni della stampa al film mostrano come una certa concezione della mascolinità abbia contribuito a forgiare la connessione tra i due uomini politici.

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