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An Anthropology of Gender Variance and Trans Experience in Naples

Beauty in Transit

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Authors:
  1. Marzia Mauriello

    1. Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Naples - L’Orientale, Naples, Italy

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  • Investigates the cultural nature of gender binarism while critically reflecting on the construction of subjectivity
  • Puts the founders of Queer Theory in dialogue with the founders of Trans Studies
  • Examines trans* culture in contemporary Naples

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Marzia Mauriello
    Pages 1-7

  3. Genders, INC.: Definitions, Disguises, and Transitions

    • Marzia Mauriello
    Pages 9-37

  4. The Neapolitan Femminielli: Past and Present of a Postmodern Antiquity

    • Marzia Mauriello
    Pages 39-71

  5. Trans Beauty: Mutations, Embodiments, and Collective Images

    • Marzia Mauriello
    Pages 73-96

  6. Conclusion

    • Marzia Mauriello
    Pages 97-103

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 105-108
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Naples - L’Orientale, Naples, Italy

    Marzia Mauriello

About the author

Marzia Mauriello teaches Medical Anthropology at the University Magna Græcia of Catanzaro (Italy) and is the Scientific Secretary of the Study Centre on Food and Nutrition based at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. She has published extensively on gender and sexuality, gender variance and trans experience, and on the intersections between food and gender.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: An Anthropology of Gender Variance and Trans Experience in Naples

  • Book Subtitle: Beauty in Transit

  • Authors: Marzia Mauriello

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86924-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86923-6Published: 27 October 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-86924-3Published: 26 October 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 108

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Ethnography, Medical Anthropology, Sociology of the Body

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