Overview
- 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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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.
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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