...Stefania Voli Abstract In the late 1970s to the early 1980s, the Italian transsexual movement began gaining visibility in the public sphere, also making use of the feminist political lexicon. This contamination emerged in the life stories of some trans pioneers, who consider feminism a fundamental...

...Elena Dalla Torre Abstract The radical theories of Italian thinker Mario Mieli are still unknown to Anglo-American audiences. Founder of the Italian homosexual movement, Mieli must be rediscovered for his theory and embodiment of transessualità , developed in Elements of a Gay Critique...

... previous attempts in this direction, for instance, in the study by Eleonora Garosi ( 2012 ) about hegemonic transnormativity in politics of transitioning in the Italian context, which resulted in a tripartite model of gender transition trajectories—gender conformers, gender innovators, and gender benders...

.... In universities, no trans studies professors hold departmental chair positions, nor are there tenure lines dedicated to the field, resulting in a complete invisibility of trans studies within the Italian curriculum, at undergraduate and graduate levels alike. As a result, no gender, queer, or trans scholars can...

... of the then-growing French, Spanish, Greek, and Italian participation in European sexploitation film. It was also part of the arrival of Blaxploitation cinema in Europe. For example, Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto ( 2012 : 191) states that Blaxploitation came to Italy in the 1970s with the arrival of Eritrean model...

... to describe something about myself that neither the Italian nor the English language would have allowed me to do with a single word (except for maybe barballa ). Maybe the strength of my “diphthongic” metaphor resides in the fact that it is a sound that doesn't necessarily carry any meaning on its own...

... it. And the sheer loss of materials over seven centuries should never be discounted. There is, in short, a silence about sexual desire between women in the Italian Middle Ages that lasts for several centuries. One text in particular addresses female same-sex practices, but it is problematic in this regard...

...) that is essentially harmonious with it. Here organized crime becomes not only corporate but also corporat ivist —that is, an internally coherent branch of state power working in tandem with other segments of political machinery, à la Italian fascism (De Grand 2004 : 128; De Grand 2000 : 79). Policing crime that has...

... the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 From a military term designating a subordinate officer, the subaltern entered social and cultural theory via the Prison Notebooks of Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci used...

... the Anglocentric bias of the transgender studies field while expanding the field's breadth and reach. This first “Translation” section features work by Fabian Alfie, who translates a passage describing cross-dressing in a fourteenth-century Italian text by Giovanni Sercambi, and by S. P. F. Dale, who translates...

... transfeminist zines has amplified radical understandings of health and forged mutually aided forms of embodied consciousness. Elia A.G. Arfini's microhistory of Italian transsexual social movements since the 1980s also underlines the power of collective action while highlighting the importance of being visible...

... McDonald is the cover image for this issue of TSQ . In the inaugural translations section, translation scholar David Gramling has selected contributions from Italian medievalist Fabian Alfie, who translates a fourteenth-century bawdy tale involving cross-dressing, and from gender studies scholar S. P. F...

... Femminile . 1991 . “ Manifesto, 1970 .” In Italian Feminism Thought: A Reader , edited by Bono Paola and Kemp Sandra , 37 – 40 . Oxford : Basil Blackwell . Stone Sandy . (1987) 2008 . “ The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto .” In The Transgender Studies Reader...

.... But by day, that feeling would be repressed, turning into contempt. In the years of their debut in Italian society, trans sex workers were nestled in the cityscape like beautiful monuments—completely at one with the dramatic scenery. In Rome, in Via Veneto, Porta Pia, Caracalla; in Florence, on the Arno...

... ). Trans works as well in French, Spanish, Italian, and many other languages as it does in English. What are we to make of the mobility of this little unit of grammar, its ability to animate, to cross, to “quare” ( Johnson and Henderson 2005 )? To quote Chen: Queer . . . while it continually re-animates...

... of a prodigy to join a slacker commune in Europe; the next becomes a hard-nosed lawyer who drinks too much; and the youngest, a bohemian rebel. Peter, who spends her childhood clandestinely cooking for the family and worshipping an Italian matron on the Food Channel, becomes a chef. The book's tone...

..., a difference between life and death where being is ultimately at stake. In “ Transessualità Italian-Style or Mario Mieli's Practice of Love,” Elena Dalla Torre introduces us to the “erotic communism” of the late Italian theorist and activist Mario Mieli (1952–83). As a specialist in Italian language...

..., a trans-inclusive abolitionist, anti-carceral feminist organization taking direct action against domestic violence, sexual assault, and femicide; Azione Trans, a Rome-based trans rights group led by black Italian Richard Thunder Bourelly; Black & Queer Trans Resistance, a direct action and community...

... sexual deviancy as economic centers of power shifted from the Italian city-states to Holland, France, and England. 8 What stands out across the book is the relationship between burgeoning collective expressions of queer sexuality and sites of urbanized labor, or zones of transit enabling capitalist...

... queen today may be walking the Avenida Libertador and find herself roaming Italian medieval plazas, only to be deported back to a territory forcibly gendered by the state. All the different strands that Ochoa offers for a study of femininity and gender in Venezuela that is not simply a study...