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Provides a remapping of Italian and Italian American culture by retracing trans and gender-variant experiences within Italy and along diasporic routes.How does the mapping of Italian culture change when it is charted from the perspective of gender-variant people? Italian Trans Geographies tackles this question by retracing trans and gender-variant experiences within the Italian peninsula and along diasporic routes. The volume adopts a cross-disciplinary approach that combines scholarly analyses with grassroots engagement and creative work and centers the voices of Italian and Italian American transpeople through autobiographies, memoirs, interviews, poetry, and visual works. The contributions include works by key Italian trans activists, including Romina Cecconi, Porpora Marcasciano, and Helena Velena, as well as critical interpretations of scholars and artists (many of whom self-identify as trans). Ultimately, these voices show how trans people have contributed to shaping Italian places and cultures while, in turn, being shaped by those places and cultures. Through its attention to geospecific sites, the book highlights blind spots in the hegemonic Anglo-American discourse about gender and overlooked intersections between LGBTQIA+ global discourse and local realities.

Provides a remapping of Italian and Italian American culture by retracing trans and gender-variant experiences within Italy and along diasporic routes.How does the mapping of Italian culture change when it is charted from the perspective of gender-variant people? Italian Trans Geographies tackles this question by retracing trans and gender-variant experiences within the Italian peninsula and along diasporic routes. The volume adopts a cross-disciplinary approach that combines scholarly analyses with grassroots engagement and creative work and centers the voices of Italian and Italian American transpeople through autobiographies, memoirs, interviews, poetry, and visual works. The contributions include works by key Italian trans activists, including Romina Cecconi, Porpora Marcasciano, and Helena Velena, as well as critical interpretations of scholars and artists (many of whom self-identify as trans). Ultimately, these voices show how trans people have contributed to shaping Italian places and cultures while, in turn, being shaped by those places and cultures. Through its attention to geospecific sites, the book highlights blind spots in the hegemonic Anglo-American discourse about gender and overlooked intersections between LGBTQIA+ global discourse and local realities.

The relationship between women and food has been examined from multiple perspectives across various disciplines, revealing a connection that is both profound and filled with social and cultural meaning. This relationship, significant and with deep historical roots, remains evident today, albeit in new and continuously changing forms.In this book, Marzia Mauriello explores this dynamic connection in depth, analyzing the four principal axes that structure the connection between women and food: production, preparation, distribution, and consumption. At each of these stages, the gendered dimensions of this relationship become apparent, intertwined with social and cultural differences and meanings. Mauriello presents ethnographic case studies from around the globe to highlight these complexities, incorporating a historical perspective that traces the dynamics of continuity and flux among these themes over time. Concise, multidisciplinary and accessible, it will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology, history, gender, women's and food studies.

The relationship between women and food has been examined from multiple perspectives across various disciplines, revealing a connection that is both profound and filled with social and cultural meaning. This relationship, significant and with deep historical roots, remains evident today, albeit in new and continuously changing forms.In this book, Marzia Mauriello explores this dynamic connection in depth, analyzing the four principal axes that structure the connection between women and food: production, preparation, distribution, and consumption. At each of these stages, the gendered dimensions of this relationship become apparent, intertwined with social and cultural differences and meanings. Mauriello presents ethnographic case studies from around the globe to highlight these complexities, incorporating a historical perspective that traces the dynamics of continuity and flux among these themes over time. Concise, multidisciplinary and accessible, it will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology, history, gender, women's and food studies.

This book recounts the author’s fieldwork among the trans and gender-variant communities in Naples. This is where a gender-variant figure, the femminiello, has found a safe environment within the city’s historical poorest neighborhoods, the so-called “quartieri popolari”, which were and continue to be culturally and socially connoted. The femminielli, who can be read as “suspended” figures between the feminine and the masculine, provide the background for a discourse on the meanings that genders and sexualities have assumed in modern Naples. This is done with significant openings to theoretical reasoning that is both extraterritorial and multidisciplinary. Starting from the micro context, the aim of the book is to explore the breadth and complexity of the gender variant and trans experience, with particular reference to the changing meanings of the body, which are also tied to the collective images of beauty in contemporary times.