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Scheda n. 15. Giuseppe Errante. Teste virili
2016
La scheda esamina una coppia di teste virili eseguite dal pittore trapanese Giuseppe Errante. The text examines a pair of virile heads made by the painter Giuseppe Errante.
LO STUDIO DELLE MATRICI GEOMETRICHE DEL PROGETTO PER LA CHIESA DEI PADRI SOMASCHI A MESSINA ATTRAVERSO LA MODELLAZIONE DIGITALE
2016
Il contributo è dedicato all'analisi delle geometrie sottese al progetto della chiesa per i Padri Somaschi di Messina di Guarino Guarini, progetto non datato e mai realizzato, noto grazie alla pubblicazione all'intero del trattato Architettura Civile dell'architetto modenese. L'indagine si avvale del processo di ricostruzione digitale della chiesa, che ha consentito un approfondimento delle geometrie che informano ogni singolo elemento dell'architettura, nonché del constante confronto con le opere esistenti d Guarini, in particolar modo la chiesa di San Lorenzo e la cappella del SS. Sudario di Torino.
Normalizing violence. Homophobia as masculinity’s test
2014
‘Strong and courageous’ but ‘constantly insecure’: dialogical self theory, intersecting identities, and Christian mixed martial arts
2021
Being a mixed martial arts fighter and a devout Christian seems to present an apparent contradiction that requires identity work to bring these identities into unity. We used Dialogical Self Theory and explored the autobiography of Ron ‘H2O’ Waterman, a professional fighter turned evangelist, to understand how the tensions between the different identities or I-positions were negotiated. We identified two I-positions, ‘Ron the Fighter’ and ‘Ron the Pater Familias’, which related differently to religion, sport, and masculinity. Importantly, the negotiations were not between MMA and faith, but between these two I-positions that served the different needs for self-enhancement and union with som…
Pit Bulls and Dogfighting as Symbols of Masculinity in Hip Hop Culture
2020
This article explores the aesthetic and cultural connections between the hyper-masculinization inherent to hip hop culture (and particularly to gangsta rap), the pit bull dog breed, and dogfighting. Building on recent scholarship that has identified the racial and racist assumptions underlying the pit bull controversy, I provide further evidence and arguments on how the highly racialized and genderized hip hop discourses inoculate the pit bull body and suffuse it with multiple meanings reminiscent of America’s traumatic encounter with otherness. As a palimpsest that attests to both mainstream and countercultural explorations of racialized masculinities, the pit bull body is made to “perfor…
Discursive Constructions of White Nordic Masculinities in Right-wing Populist Media
2018
Using superordinate intersectionality as a theoretical framework, this article explores notions of men and masculinities within right wing populism. It is attentive to how the right-wing populist media in Finland and Sweden construct white Nordic masculinities through discursive interactions across several axes of difference: gender (masculinities); sexuality (heterosexuality); social class (elites); and race (whitenesses). Employing Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as methodological approach, we show how the discursive constructions of white Nordic masculinities are context contingent, rendering them subject to constant reinterpretation and repositioning, at times privileging some axes of…
Terrorist Masculinities: Political Masculinity between Fiction, Facts, and Their Mediation
2018
This essay proposes that terrorism manifests itself in a relation that encompasses masculinity as well as the media. The origin of this relationship is the joint performativity of gender and acts of terror. This makes terrorism an instrument of social and political change. But in order to legitimize themselves, terrorism as well as masculinity require authorization by a phantasmagorical power. Drawing on the dominance of males among terrorists, this essay will look at an early depiction of terrorism in Conrad’s The Secret Agent, a contemporary representation in Sahota’s novel Ours Are the Streets and terrorism’s real manifestation in the Paris carnage of November 2015. It will show that in…
Liberty Walther Barnes Conceiving Masculinity: Male Infertility, Medicine, and Identity
2015
El problema de la despolitización del 'género' para la teoría feminista
2020
El propósito de este artículo es desarrollar un análisis crítico del proceso de despolitización del “género”. Se propone desvelar un importante punto de inflexión en el uso de “género”, de categoría analítica a característica individual, y su creciente sustitución del “sexo”. Se argumenta que la comprensión del género como percepción o sentimiento de pertenencia entre múltiples identidades no representa un marco teórico comprometido políticamente y está despojado de sentido para la emancipación de las mujeres de la dominación masculina. A lo largo del artículo (1) se desarrolla una breve narrativa de la historia del concepto, (2) se examina la comprensión del género desde la óptica de la id…
El Regreso. Homosexualidad masculina y migraciones internas en Cuba
2001
La década de los 90 parece haber sido el inicio de un cambio - quizás radical e irreversible - no solo en las concepciones sobre la homosexualidad en cuba sino, y acaso en mayor medida, en la vida de los propios homosexuales cubanos. Los nuevos espacios que se abren - sobre todo en Ciudad de La Habana - parecen haber provocado en no pocos varones homosexuales jóvenes, residentes temporales en la capital, el deseo de no regresar nunca más sus lugares de origen.