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Veline, ordinary women and male savages: Disentangling racism and heteronormativity in contemporary narratives on sexual freedom
No full textThis article takes as its starting point the so-called 'sex scandals' surrounding Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi during the last years of his premiership (2009-2011), which have filled Italian newspaper columns and legal case files. Political discourses and media interpretations of women's freedom at the time represented genders through the eroticisation of power. The deployment of postfeminist and stereotyped representations of gender relations produced a complex and ambivalent frame for female sexuality and agency which reproduced the hegemonic neoliberal rhetoric that locates freedom and emancipation in the market. This narrative was further inflected by class and race, as it was deployed through the opposed images of white, Italian, respectable, caring women, and cynical young women and migrants using their bodies as a resource in a sexual-economic exchange with men occupying positions of power. Through feminist reflections on work I frame and discuss the use of the notions of choice and freedom in these discourses. Shifting the focus from women's behaviour to the analysis of a peculiar image of masculinity displayed by the then premier, the article highlights how racism, colonial legacies and homophobia are enmeshed in this historically and culturally based gender imagery
The Burden of Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence, Experience, and Persuasion
No full textIn domestic violence cases, the production of legal evidence faces several challenges. While scholars have amply discussed the issues of intimacy, dependency, and ambivalence, their relationship with evidence and persuasion appears undertheorized. The Italian context is particularly suitable for analyzing this issue, as the testimony of the victim is central in cases of intimate partner violence. Drawing on ethnographic research into domestic violence and the law, I analyze the two components of the burden of proof: evidence and persuasion. The first corresponds to the reconstruction of facts based on eliciting the victim's experience in the form of a story; the second to how the persuasiveness of testimony is judged based on the performance of authenticity. Questioning the notion that one of the qualities of evidence—in law as in anthropology—is to be free of human intention, the article suggests that these two components of proof appear, in cases of intimate violence, not only mutually implicated but also in a relationship of intractable contradiction
Another look: Ethnography, narration, and postcolonialism,Un autre regard. Ethnographie, narration, et postcolonialisme
No full textThe crisis, characteristic of our present postcolonial era, in the historicallycodified forms of talking about alterity has permitted the emergence of what can be called « stories of the other» - stories about those who have been implicitly excluded from the position of the subject. This crisis is particularly evident in a discipline such as anthropology, which is founded precisely upon narratives of the Other. Beginning with the problems posed by the possibility of a visual narration of alterity, this article proposes to analyse the connections among narrative, representation and identity in the works of Tracey Moffat, Isaac Julien and Fiona Tan. In their videos and installations, the question of the gaze fixed on the other is articulated around the themes of memory and the crisis of ethnography as a means of representation of or narrative about cultural alterity. These artists stage an «other» gaze capable of bringing out repressed and subaltern histories. They affirm an identity that is marginal and hybrid at the same time, beyond the myths of origin and purity that delineate colonial and colonialist thought. © Association Multitudes
Riconfigurazioni dei generi e delle sessualità. Appunti da una ricerca con donne peruviane a Milano
No full textLe relazioni di genere delle pratiche e nelle rappresentazioni del co-sviluppo. Note etnografiche su un progetto tra Italia e Ghana
No full textIl contributo, fondato su una ricerca empirica, analizza come un gruppo di migranti ghanesi coinvolti in un progetto di cosviluppo rielabori la nozione di empowerment delle donne trovando forme di accomodazione dell'idea di famiglia tra contesto di provenienza (Ghana) e contesto di migrazione (Italia)
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