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Diversity in fashion. Languages, sustainability, inclusion
No. 24 (2021)Issue edited by Maria Rosaria Pelizzari e Debora A. Sarnelli
Fashion is the unifying theme of the issue 24 of the Journal of Women and Gender Studies La Camera Blu, a monographic issue in which, thanks to an interdisciplinary perspective, essays are gathered around the concept “Diversity in Fashion”, and cross it from the point of view of identity and gender fluidity. There is also space for articles that analyse the empowerment of female businesses and subjects perceived as marginal, contributions that study the different perceptions and representations of bodies 'beyond the schemes'. A path that goes from History to Pedagogy, from Sociology to Literature, to theatrical representations, from Philosophy to Communication Sciences and marketing. We try to understand on the basis of what clues are glimpsed today future cultural and social perspectives, through inclusive marketing. To what extent can fashion be a boost for social mobility and innovation, for the elimination of stereotypes and inclusiveness?
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Romanticism. From Antipatriarchal Movement to Male Dominance's Disguise
No. 23 (2020)Edited by Laura Guidi, Judith Muñoz Saavedra e Maria Marchese
This issue of La camera blu. Journal of Women’s and Gender Studies aims at adopting a multi-disciplinary perspective (historical, ethnographical, sociological, literary) in analyzing the way Romanticism, a movement – even if contradictorily – anti-patriarchal in its XVIIIth - XIXth centuries’ origins, finished to be normalized, from the second XIXth century’s capitalist and nationalist era, hasta convertirse en instrumento cultural por potenciar la subordinacion de las mujeres, la explotaciòn de su trabajo de cuidado y por legitimar la violencia machista.
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Violence against women in the COVID-19 emergency
No. 22 (2020)Edited by Gina Troisi
Cover Image: Massimo Carelli, "Concrezioni"
The emergency COVID-19, which is spreading around the world forcing isolation and cohabitation, leads to a reflection on the aggravation of the risks that women victims of violence experience. Specific anti-violence centers, institutions and services are asked to rethink new risk prevention practices and measures in order to assure women support and maintain a support network to fight gender-based violence.
There are many questions to rethink: the difficulty of reaching services, the economic crisis that hinders the getting out of violence, the suspended legal proceedings, the possibility of recognizing violence beyond its emergency assessment.
Therefore this issue of "La Camera Blu" Journal intends to collect articles with the first research data about the topic, but also reflections and good practices, in order to share knowledge and experiences useful for building a new synergy of intervention. -
Sexist stigmas and genderism
No. 20 (2019)L’intento di questo issue è stato accogliere contributi che raccontano ed evidenziano, attraverso approfondimenti teorici, di ricerca e di esperienza formativa, come lo stigma sessista e di genere restino ancora radicati nelle relazioni e nei contesti di vita anche quando gli assetti legislativi nonché ideologie collettive sembrino orientarsi a favore delle donne e nel rispetto delle identità di genere
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Gender visions
No. 19 (2018)Gender visions deals with issues of the current scientific debate on women's psychic health, and on the organization of services to fight gender domestic violence. Sexual difference is key to reading the management of feelings in the lives of young girls and the women’s role in the Italian school, at the turn of the early twentieth century, are further contributions. Finally, post-colonial cultural stereotypes of black middle-class families in literature and cinema are examined. -
Environmental Destruction: Women's Testimony and Struggles
No. 18 (2018)Edited by Laura Guidi
By this issue of La camera blu we intend to make room to two fields of research – Environmental History and Gender History – that Italian Historiography – expecially Contemporary History – has left in a niche, not facing up to their radical criticism towards mainstream History. -
Sport contexts and gender perspectives
No. 17 (2017)Edited by Francesco Muollo and Fortuna Procenese
Since the end of the 1960s, the relationship between sport and gender, Sports contexts and the attribution of gender - related stereotypes, has developed into a specific research field in sport studies Researches in this field have since highlighted several issues related to broader aspects such as segregation, bullying and homophobia in sports contexts.
Francesco Muollo has a PhD in Gender Studies attended at University of Napoli “Federico II”. His research fields span from gender studies topics to bodies-nationalism relationship. At present he is as member of SISS (Italian Society of Sport Historians).
muollo@unina.itFortuna Procentese, PhD, Associate Professor in Community and Social Psychology, at the Department of Humanities of the University of Naples Federico II (Italy). Her research interests concern the woman-man relationship with a particular outlook on gender asymmetry and work and family conflict. Her studies include sportive sense of community, collaborative urban regeneration, migration, and a critical approach to Community Psychology. Her methodological expertise is related to collaborative and participatory action research.
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Escaping gender violence
No. 16 (2017)Issue edited by Filomena Tuccillo
This issue focusing on gender violence is named “Escaping Gender violence”: The image of the cover and the title give a sign of hopeful perspective toward the opportunity of fighting gender violence. Therefore, the first goal is to reflect on the functioning of the love bond and the role of men and women in the couple in today’s society and the needs and feelings at play in relational connections; further aim is then presenting the psychological report on women victims of gender violence and re-education opportunities for violence perpetrators as further tools for social collective awareness that gender violence is hindering women’s and children’s rights which affect their wellbeing. Prostitution and sexual trafficking – “I am not for Sale” is the title of the document which deals with whether prostitution is a form of violence against women or a type of job like any other. This report through international and European statistics, highlights the link between prostitution and trafficking, and the difficulties that countries in which prostitution is legal, have in prosecuting the latter.
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LINKS 2.0. GENDER PUT TO THE TEST OF CONTEMPORARY TIMES
No. 15 (2016)Issue edited by Anna Gargiulo.
The current issue investigates the changes related to the female gender in the contemporary society, observed from different perspectives as is usual for the journal La Camera Blu. Challenges merging launched on several levels: bodies, couples, families, academies, organized social groups, virtual communities. Therefore, it starts from the links which can both connect creatively and bond destructively the other to the self. -
Wounds
No. 14 (2016)a cura di Giorgia Margherita
L’idea centrale che attraversa questo numero è osservare da differenti prospettive e all’interno di scenari multipli il tema delle Ferite, fratture e lacerazioni identitarie iscritte nel soma e incarnate nella psiche. Punto di partenza è la scena corporea: dalle ferite deliberatamente inferte, al fenomeno del Self Cutting, tendenza frequente e diffusa tra adolescenti, principalmente ragazze e giovani donne, di tagliare e ferire la superficie della propria pelle. -
The Great War in Woman’s Experiences and Writings
No. 13 (2015)Editors: Laura Guidi, Annamaria Lamarra
In this issue we present again the subject by which, ten years ago, we started to publish our journal of Gender Studies La Camera Blu. At that time we chose a controversial subject for women's history and culture, that in many cases scarred women's movement, as well as the struggle for suffrage. While in 2006 our subject was war, in different historical contexts, this issue is dedicated to a particular war, WW1, a turning point in women's and men's history: the Great War of which we are celebrating the 100th anniversary. Women's experiences offer new perspectives that often differ from the traditional history accounts; their writings point out connections between individuals and community, public and private sphere, subjective memories and collective history.
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Gender and the Posthuman
No. 12 (2015)Editors: Francesca Ferrando, Simona Marino, Caterina Arcidiacono This issue of the Camera Blu is an important contribution to the study of gender and theposthuman for different reasons. Currently, posthumanism hasbecome a highlyfashionable academic trend. Considering that anthropocentrismis leading to anenvironmental eco-disaster so deep as to endanger the very survival of the humanspecies, this breakthrough in academia is a great opportunity forsocial reform. On theother hand, the hegemonic appropriation of the posthumanist discourse is obscuring thecore meaning of the posthuman with ironic consequences. The“neutral” subject, that ismale, white, heterosexual, Western etc., is rediscovering the posthuman in the name ofthe Father, in an ahistorical reconstruction in whichthe decisive contribution offeminism is gradually superseded by names of male theorists, to ensure a phallocraticgenealogy to Posthuman Studies. Is this a defeat of the posthuman? Not at all. Theinterest that posthumanism is attracting can only bring satisfaction to scholars who havebeen working for years to its promotion. And still, becausein this proliferation of theposthuman, the meaning of the term is taking on differentshades, colors and nuances, itis crucial to rediscover its roots. Posthumanism stems from Feminism: forgetting this genealogical debt means giving up the deepest identity of theposthuman. This issue ofthe Camera Blu wishes to emphasize this powerful genealogy, and to lay a platform forfurther development of gender through the posthuman, and of the posthuman throughgender, reflecting on the possible futures of gender in relation to the human and theposthuman species. -
Against gender-based violence: feminist perspectives
No. 11 (2014)Editors: Ines Testoni, Adriano Zamperini, Gabriela Moita, Mihaela Dana Bucuţă and Caterina Arcidiacono -
Against gender-based violence: from Italian debate to intercultural dialogue
No. 10 (2014)Editors: Ines Testoni, Adriano Zamperini, Gabriela Moita and Mihaela Dana Bucuţă
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Emerging subjects / Ed. by Laura Guidi
No. 6 (2010)Emerging subjects deals with various experiences, both of the past and the present time, in which groups or individuals pass from a subaltern and passive condition to an affirmative behavior, to autonomous initiatives and expressions of their own experiences, aspirations and desires. There is a gender dimension in all these texts, either they deal with women's movements and organizations (as in Botti, Amistà, Cimbalo, Pelizzari), or they deal with women as protagonists in specific community struggles (Sgueglia and Zito). We can also recognize experiences of "emerging as subjects" in the report edited by the association LBS of a seminar dealing with the topic of gender roles in upbringing and education. Lamagna analyzes the story of Marie Cardinal, in which writing enables her to take control over her own life, giving her intimate freedom. A therapeutic role is played when Russian veterans of the Afghan war (1979-89) narrate the story of their experiences. Vanke's essay shows how telling their story enables them to recover memories that had previously been removed from their minds to be inscribed only in their bodies. The volume is completed by the Catarzi's review of a book by Claudia Montepaone on Pythagorean women philosophers, the re-reading by Lamarra of a book recalling the experience of some protagonists of the feminist culture in the Seventies, and the Highlighter, that in this issue deals with the young contingent workers in the fields of knowledge and research. -
Fear
No. 5 (2009)Fear – an emotion that we all experience in our life – may assume a variety of expressions. It occupies the intimate part of our being and may produce symptoms in our bodies; it may be manipulated for purposes of repression and social control. A frequent kind of this emotion is connected to the fear of losing or being abandoned by a loved one, a fear that we experience from the beginning of our life, when we are separated from our mother’s body. Fear is often connected with violence: there is the women’s fear for the recurrent gender violence, and the fear experienced on the battlefield by soldiers compelled to repress their emotions in order to play the part of the hero.
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Fathers
No. 4 (2008)After devoting attention predominantly to motherhood, in recent times Gender Studies has begun to investigate fatherhood. Research has been carried on to explore what it was like to be father in different contexts and ages. The delay in research on fatherhood is easily explained by the circumstance that traditionally women have been represented mostly in their private sphere, while men in the public area. Often fatherhood itself has been considered as an element giving status and social prestige to the paterfamilias. In this issue we aim instead at investigating the intimate relations between fathers and their sons and daughters. This issue presents a number of studies on particular cases of paternal relations as well as essays on more general aspects of fatherhood, in a philosophical, anthropological and historical perspective.
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‘Canon’ and Gender Studies
No. 3 (2008)We adopt the word ‘canon’ to mean the defining authors and works that are considered essential to any discipline. In the last few decades Gender Studies has developed critical analysis on the selection of canonic content in various disciplines. This issue aims at collecting and comparing critical studies on this subject. Its aim is not to try to integrate the academic disciplines with fragments of gender studies. It aims at showing that the subjects that our cultural tradition presented as being universal and sexually neutral were in fact a representation of only one prevailing group, the occidental male. We aim to deconstruct the canons of various disciplines so as to redress the bias.
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Bodies and Languages
No. 2 (2007)Since Classical times in Western thought Nature and Culture have been conceptualized as dualistic and belonging to separate and distinct domains of reference. Philosophers, scientists and lawyers throughout the ages have considered women’s destiny as being rooted passively in Nature, which was seen as repetitive and predictable. In a similar way they considered that sexuality and gender relations were unchangeable and based on biological elements that were immutable. Only the male could be active and creative at home in the realm of Logos.
In Gender Studies this ancient dichotomy has been radically challenged. Numerous historical and cultural contexts have been examined in which both secular and religious powers have imposed determined prohibitions and patterns of behaviour concerning the physical body of men, women and children and the way in which their physicality should be expressed or repressed.
This issue presents studies that consider the sphere of the body in its cultural and historical dimension.
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War and women
No. 1 (2006)In the traditional representation of war the protagonist is always the man, the soldier, portrayed in his full virility, strength and justified aggressiveness. In every public discourse on war women are presented as the personification of something to be protected and even the country itself, the homeland, that is in danger of being invaded by the enemy. However this stereotype is far from portraying the full range of women’s activity in war. In many cases throughout history, from the mythical Antigone to the forgotten heroism of resistance of women against Nazi-German occupation in the Second World War, women have taken action both to save human lives and to preserve the values of their communities that war threatens to destroy.
Avoiding an essentialist and reductive interpretation that identifies tout court women with peace, this issue explores women’s wartime experiences.
