ISBN:
9781438494593
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (402 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
SUNY Series in Italian/American Culture Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.7680945
Keywords:
Transgender people-Italy
;
Gender-nonconforming people-Italy
Abstract:
Provides a remapping of Italian and Italian American culture by retracing trans and gender-variant experiences within Italy and along diasporic routes.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline of Key Events -- Introduction -- Notes -- References -- South -- Part 1. Memories of Transitions -- Chapter 1: From AntoloGaia: Vivere sognando e non sognando di vivere -- I miei anni settanta (AntholoGay: Living Dreaming and Not Dreaming of Living -- My Seventies) -- Le début (1973-1976) -- Somewhere in the West -- Traces of Dreams -- The Awakening of Self-Awareness -- The Coming Out -- Notes -- Chapter 2: From L'aurora delle trans cattive: Storie, sguardi e vissuti della mia generazione transgender (The Dawn of the Bad Trans Women: Stories, Fragments, and Lives of My Transgender Generation) -- The Dawn of our "Wonderful Adventure" -- Notes -- Chapter 3: From Tra le rose e le viole: La storia e le storie di transessuali e travestiti (Among Roses and Violets: The Story and the Stories of Transsexuals and Transvestites) -- Antonello -- Notes -- Chapter 4: From Dolore minimo (Minimum Pain) and Dove non siamo stati (Where We Haven't Been) -- From Dolore Minimo (Minimum Pain) -- From Dove non siamo stati (Where We Haven't Been) -- Notes -- Part 2. The Femminielli: A Gender-Variant Community between Past and Present -- Chapter 5: "Et io ne viddi uno in Napoli." I femminielli: Ricognizione storica e mitografica -- Spunti per una riflessione sull'identità di genere ("And I saw one of them in Naples." Femminielli: Historical and Mythographic Recognition -- Starting Points for a Reflection on Gender Identity) -- Introduction -- Et io e ne viddi uno in Napoli [And I saw one of them in Naples] -- The Affeminati of Naples -- Sanctioning Belonging -- The Riffa [Raffle] -- The Spusarizio [Wedding] -- Comparison between Della Porta and De Blasio -- Lexicon and Social Representations -- The Femminielli between Myth, History, and Culture.
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