Gender and Sexuality Italian Style - Keynote Speakers
Daniela Danna
Daniela Danna is researcher and lecturer in Sociology at the Department of Social and Political studies, Faculty of Political Science, University of Milan. Danna’s research interests are in the area of gender / sex relations, focusing in particular on lesbian existence and motherhood in Italy, and prostitution. Her most recent publications include Ginocidio. La violenza contro le donne nell’era globale (2007) (Gynocide. Violence against women), Prostituzione e vita pubblica in quattro capitali europee (2006) (editor, author of the chapter on Stockholm, co-author of the chapter on Madrid) (Prostitution and public life in four European capitals) and La gaia famiglia. Omogenitorialità: il dibattito e la ricerca (2005) (co-author: Margherita Bottino) (Homosexual parenthood: the debate and the research).
Luisa Muraro
Graduated in Philosophy from the Catholic University of Milan, Luisa Muraro is a leading Italian feminist philosopher and has been one of the founding members of the Libreria delle donne di Milano and of the philosophical community, Diotima a Muraro worked at the University of Verona from 1976 until her recent retirement. Her highly influential publications include: La signora del gioco. Episodi della caccia alle streghe (Milano, Feltrinelli, 1976)
- Maglia o uncinetto. Racconto linguistico-politico sulla inimicizia tra metafora e metonimia (Milano, Feltrinelli, 1981)
- L'ordine simbolico della madre (Roma, Editori Riuniti, 1991)
- Lingua materna, scienza divina. Scritti sulla filosofia mistica di Margherita Porete (Napoli, D’Auria, 1995)
- Lingua e verità in Emily Dickinson, Teresa di Lisieux, Ivy Compton-Burnett (Luisa Muraro e gli studenti del corso dell'Università di Verona, 1995).
- Le amiche di Dio (Napoli, D’Auria, 2001)
- Il Dio delle donne (Milano, Mondadori, 2003)
- Guglielma e Maifreda (Milano, La Tartaruga ed., 1985, 2003)
Aine O’Healy
Aine O'Healy is Professor of Italian in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Loyola Marymount University. Her research interests include transnational feminism, contemporary cinema in Europe, and Italian cultural studies. Among her recent publications are Transnational Feminism in Film and Media, edited with Katarzyna Marciniak and Anikó Imre (Palgrave 2007); "Alterità, abiezione e melodramma in Non ti muovere" in Sinergie narrative in letteratura e film nell'Italia contemporanea, edited by Guido Bonsaver, Martin McLaughlin, and Franca Pellegrini (Cesati, 2008); "Humanity, Hospitality, and the Detention Camp," in International Journal of the Humanities 4: 3 (2006); and "Desire and Disavowal in Liliana Cavani's German Trilogy" in Queer Italia, edited by Gary Cestaro (Palgrave, 2004). She is currently co-editing a special issue titled "Transcultural Mediations and Transnational Politics of Difference" for Feminist Media Studies.
Marina Zancan
Marina Zancan is a lecturer at the ‘La Sapienza’ university in Rome, where among her other responsibilities she is director of the doctoral programme on the History of Women’s Writing. She has worked on issues of historiography, on twentieth-century authors and texts, with a particular interest in theoretical debate and the role of intellectuals in Italian society in the latter part of the twentieth century. In this vein, in an attempt to reconstruct fragments of female intellectual history in conjunction with literary history, she has worked on the recuperation and interpretation of texts by women, dating from both the twentieth century and earlier. Among other works she has published Il doppio itinerario della scrittura. La donna nella tradizione letteraria italiana (1998); Scrittrici e intellettuali del Novecento. Alba de Cèspedes (2001); Le scrittrici italiane del Novecento (2002).