“This Town Is Against Gender”: Bending Gender in Italian Culture
“This Town Is Against Gender”: Bending Gender in Italian Culture
Author(s): Valeria GenneroSubject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: gender studies; war against gender; gender-bending; American gender studies; Italian gender studies; approaches to gender; gender stereotypes
Summary/Abstract: This essay describes the misrepresentation of gender theory in Italian culture and politics, arguing that the violence of the attacks unleashed against gender in Italy constitutes a paradoxical example of the importance of a category of analysis that in today’s United States has come to be represented as tame (and even tedious).
Journal: Review of International American Studies
- Issue Year: 10/2017
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 105-120
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English