"This Town Is Against Gender": Bending Gender in Italian Culture

• Authors: Valeria Gennero
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Valeria GenneroUniversity of BergamoItaly“This Town Is Against Gender”: Bending Gender in Italian CultureThis 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).

Keywords

EN

gender studies; war against gender; gender-bending; American gender studies; Italian gender studies; approaches to gender; gender stereotypes

• Publisher: University of Silesia Press
• Journal: Review of International American Studies
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 2

Dates

published

2017-11-30

Contributors

author

Valeria Gennero