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 Ombretta Frau and Juliet Guzzetta
The Guest Editors use a feminist lens to introduce and deconstruct the theme of “Donne di destra / Women of the Right” in the sociopolitical and cultural context of contemporary Italy.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/kf73-6c95
by Erin Larkin
When looking for literary and cultural genealogies for Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s first female prime minister and co-founder of the ultraconservative Fratelli d’Italia, the women of Italian Futurism offer a revealing perspective. The historical avant-garde provides examples of the rhetoric of exceptionalism that continues to mark conservative feminism, particularly in the work of Benedetta Cappa. Meloni’s refrain—“Io sono Giorgia, sono una donna, sono una madre, sono italiana, sono cristiana”—reflects the same themes of nation,
