- Docente: Alessandra Gribaldo
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-DEA/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation (cod. 8059)
Learning outcomes
Students acquires the basic elements (methodology and contents) of gender and intercultural socio-literary studies; they can apply the acquired knowledge in the field of intercultural communication; they are able to evaluate and apply in that field deontologically correct behaviors; and can independently elaborate further knowledge.
Course contents
The course is titled "Representations of body, gender and sexuality in contemporary Italy". The course is aimed at giving critical tools for an analysis of body, gender, and sexuality in contemporary Italy through an anthropological and intersectional approach. During the course the various processes of naturalization - at the core of anthropological thought- will be addressed through gender and difference, drawing on diverse cases from ethnographic literature, media, and scientific representations. The course will focus on gender representations and on its twine with race and class, in search of dominant features in the Italian context. Specifically the gendered social polarization between agent-subject and victim-subject will be explored.
Readings/Bibliography
Busoni Mila, Genere sesso cultura. Uno sguardo antropologico, Carocci 2000: (first section), pp. 19-73.
Gribaldo Alessandra e Zapperi Giovanna, Lo schermo del potere. Femminismo e regime della visibilità, Ombre corte, 2012: Chapters III (Linee di frattura), IV (Resti di liberazione sessuale), V (immaginari discordanti) pp.50-94, 95-111.
Fusaschi Michela, Quando il corpo è delle altre. Retoriche della pietà ed umanitarismo-spettacolo, Bollati Boringhieri 2011.
Teaching methods
It is a requirement that students attend at least 70% of the course lessons.
During the course the student participation through critical insights and comments on the proposed cases and literature is warmly welcome. Frontal lessons and in-class discussions will alternate. Academic and non-academic texts and videos will be discussed in class.
Assessment methods
Oral exam.
Teaching tools
Texts to discuss in class:
Connell, Patricia 1997 Understanding Victimization and Agency: Considerations of Race, Class and Gender. Political and Legal Anthropology Review 20(2):115–143.
Giuliani Gaia, Bella e abbronzata. Visualizzare la razza nella televisione italiana 1978-1989, in Giuliani a cura di Il colore della nazione, Le Monnier, 2015.
Gribaldo Alessandra La Natura Scomposta. Riproduzione assistita, genere, parentela, Luca Sossella Editore, Roma, 2005: capp. 2,3,6.
Gribaldo Alessandra The Paradoxical Victim. Intimate Violence Narratives on Trial in Italy, “American Ethnologist”, Vol. 41 (4), 2014, pp. 743-756.
Fusaschi Michela, Corpo non si nasce, si diventa. Antropologiche di genere nella globalizzazione, Cisu, 2013: capp. 4 e 5.
Martin, Emily, The egg and the sperm: how science had constructed a romance based on stereotypical male-female roles, in “Signs” 1991, 16, 3, pp. 485-501.
Pinelli Barbara, "Soggettività e sofferenza nelle migrazioni delle donne richiedenti asilo in Italia", La produzione del genere. Ricerche etnografiche sul femminile e sul maschile, a cura di (con Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz), Ombre Corte, Verona, 2010.
Tabet Paola, La grande beffa. Sessualità delle donne e scambio sessuo-economico, Rubettino 2004: (capp. 1 e 3) pp. 7-39- 85-110.
Voci da Femministe a parole. Grovigli da districare, a cura di Marchetti, Mascat e Perilli, Ediesse 2012:
Intersezionalità (Perilli e Ellena)
Prostituzione (Garofalo)
Velate e svelate (Bonfiglioli)
Veline (Gribaldo e Zapperi)
Il corpo delle donne, di Zanardo, Malfi, Cantù, 2009, 25''. Screening and critical discussion.
Office hours
See the website of Alessandra Gribaldo