Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto
Biographic Data
| ID | 641752 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raffaella Ferrero |
| FAMILY NAME | Camoletto |
| SIGNATURE | CAMOLETTO R F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3443-075X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Aging beauty matters: Normative and resistant narratives on female aging bodies
This article examines how older women navigate beauty work and anti-aging norms within contemporary Western aesthetic regimes. Rather than centering menopause as a biological transition, the study foregrounds beauty work as a key site where ageism and sexism intersect in shaping women's embodied experiences. Drawing on feminist sociology, cultural gerontology, embodiment theory, and scholarship on decline narratives, visibility and temporal gover…
Resexualising Later Life: Performances of Older Sexual Citizenship
"Too soft for real psychiatry"? Gendered boundary-making between coercion and dialog in Italian wards
Psychiatric practice has always entailed a coercive dimension, visible not only in its formal expressions (e.g. compulsory treatment) but in many informal and implicit forms. In fact, contemporary psychiatric practices are characterized by an interplay of coercion and dialog to be interpreted not as binary categories but as extremes of a spectrum. Within this perspective, it becomes crucial to draw boundaries attributing meaning to professional i…
Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna, Daniele Vignoli. Piacere e fedeltà. I millennials italiani e il sesso
No abstract
Clothing the practice: Community building, sportification and commodification in CrossFit and parkour
Relying on empirical data from two research projects on CrossFit and parkour, and adopting mixed methods (enactive ethnography, participant observation, online survey and social media analysis), this article aims at evidencing the role of apparel and gear in some processes engendering a transformation of the two practices. We investigate the making of boundaries – internal and external to the practices – that furnish ways of belonging to practiti…
Stranieri a tavola? Ridefinire i confini identitari attraverso le narrazioni alimentari
Attraverso l'analisi di tre casi di studio che utilizzano tre approcci qualitativi diversi (l'intervista, la photovoice, l'etnografia virtuale), il presente articolo mostra come l'alimentazione nell'esperienza migratoria possa fungere da spazio, sociale e vir-tuale, reale e immaginario, per rivendicare confini simbolici che possono essere costruiti in modo nostalgico o riaffermati in quanto tratto distintivo che differenzia chi migra dall'autocto…
Tackling the relationship between pornography's consumption and female sexual scripts: Does Masturbation Play an Activating Role
The present study addresses a neglected research question: does female masturbation moderate the association between pornography consumption during adolescence and sexual attitudes and behavior in later life? We adopt a theoretical perspective derived from the sexual script approach: since masturbation triggers the activation of sexual scripts acquired through porn exposure, we expect the former to increase the latter's association with the adopt…
Keeping it natural? challenging indoorization in Italian rock climbing
This article explores the transformation of rock climbing in a North-Western Italian region, paying attention to the need for 'keeping it natural' in the process of authentication of the practice among a sample of climbers. Like other nature sports such as rafting, skydiving and surfing, rock climbing has been affected by processes of indoorization and sportivization, moving practice sites from mountain rocks to artificial walls. Mixing a post-su…
Managing alternative sports: New organisational spaces for the diffusion of Italian parkour
This article explores the encounter between parkour as an unstructured and culturally innovative practice, challenging both physical as well as organisational spaces, and UISP (Unione Italiana Sport per Tutti/Italian Union of Sport for All) as a sport-promotion body open to organisational and cultural experimentation. Drawing on a multi-method qualitative approach (analysis of documentary material, interviews and focus groups), it looks at the ro…
Italians (should) do it better? Medicalisation and the disempowering of intimacy
Recent years have witnessed new processes of visibilisation of adult heterosexual men's sexuality in the public arena in Italy, culminating in discussions on sexual scandals. The authors explore here one of these processes: the current mediatisation of a medicalised male sexuality, which appears as a more socially legitimate and scientifically grounded new discourse on masculinity. By analysing recent social campaigns on male sexual health, it wi…
Sexual beginners: Accounting for first sexual intercourse in Italian young people's heterosexual biographies
Based on survey data of 1000 young people aged 18–29 and semi-structured interviews with 51 young people aged 18–34 living in a north-western Italian region, the article explores how they account for their first heterosexual intercourse. Young people describe and make sense of their experiences by referring to sexual scripts; narrative sequences that represent the legitimate rules and moves of the heterosexual game. The article shows the complex …
Coming to be a Man: Pleasure in the Construction of Italian Men's (Hetero)Sexuality
Little research has challenged a naturalized conception of male (hetero) sexuality by looking at the multiple ways in which heterosexual men experience and make sense of sexuality in their everyday lives. In this article, after outlining the forms that such a conception has taken in recent Italian history, we explore how men and women deal with the issue of male pleasure. The analysis is based on interviews with seventy-one Italian men and women …
Beyond the sex machine? Sexual practices and masculinity in adult men's heterosexual accounts
The processes of reproduction and change of adult masculinities through everyday sexual practices remain largely invisible to research. Our attempt is to shed light upon these processes by investigating middle-aged Italian men's accounts of their heterosexual, sexual biographies on the basis of 36 in-depth interviews. These cohorts of men have experienced structural transformations in gender relations and changes in the cultural scenarios regardi…
Beyond the sex machine? Sexual practices and masculinity in adult men's heterosexual accounts
The processes of reproduction and change of adult masculinities through everyday sexual practices remain largely invisible to research. Our attempt is to shed light upon these processes by investigating middle-aged Italian men's accounts of their heterosexual, sexual biographies on the basis of 36 in-depth interviews. These cohorts of men have experienced structural transformations in gender relations and changes in the cultural scenarios regardi…
Keeping it natural? challenging indoorization in Italian rock climbing
This article explores the transformation of rock climbing in a North-Western Italian region, paying attention to the need for 'keeping it natural' in the process of authentication of the practice among a sample of climbers. Like other nature sports such as rafting, skydiving and surfing, rock climbing has been affected by processes of indoorization and sportivization, moving practice sites from mountain rocks to artificial walls. Mixing a post-su…
Clothing the practice: Community building, sportification and commodification in CrossFit and parkour
Relying on empirical data from two research projects on CrossFit and parkour, and adopting mixed methods (enactive ethnography, participant observation, online survey and social media analysis), this article aims at evidencing the role of apparel and gear in some processes engendering a transformation of the two practices. We investigate the making of boundaries – internal and external to the practices – that furnish ways of belonging to practiti…
Italians (should) do it better? Medicalisation and the disempowering of intimacy
Recent years have witnessed new processes of visibilisation of adult heterosexual men's sexuality in the public arena in Italy, culminating in discussions on sexual scandals. The authors explore here one of these processes: the current mediatisation of a medicalised male sexuality, which appears as a more socially legitimate and scientifically grounded new discourse on masculinity. By analysing recent social campaigns on male sexual health, it wi…
Beyond the sex machine? Sexual practices and masculinity in adult men's heterosexual accounts
The processes of reproduction and change of adult masculinities through everyday sexual practices remain largely invisible to research. Our attempt is to shed light upon these processes by investigating middle-aged Italian men's accounts of their heterosexual, sexual biographies on the basis of 36 in-depth interviews. These cohorts of men have experienced structural transformations in gender relations and changes in the cultural scenarios regardi…
Coming to be a Man: Pleasure in the Construction of Italian Men's (Hetero)Sexuality
Little research has challenged a naturalized conception of male (hetero) sexuality by looking at the multiple ways in which heterosexual men experience and make sense of sexuality in their everyday lives. In this article, after outlining the forms that such a conception has taken in recent Italian history, we explore how men and women deal with the issue of male pleasure. The analysis is based on interviews with seventy-one Italian men and women …
Sexual beginners: Accounting for first sexual intercourse in Italian young people's heterosexual biographies
Based on survey data of 1000 young people aged 18–29 and semi-structured interviews with 51 young people aged 18–34 living in a north-western Italian region, the article explores how they account for their first heterosexual intercourse. Young people describe and make sense of their experiences by referring to sexual scripts; narrative sequences that represent the legitimate rules and moves of the heterosexual game. The article shows the complex …
Italians (should) do it better? Medicalisation and the disempowering of intimacy
Recent years have witnessed new processes of visibilisation of adult heterosexual men's sexuality in the public arena in Italy, culminating in discussions on sexual scandals. The authors explore here one of these processes: the current mediatisation of a medicalised male sexuality, which appears as a more socially legitimate and scientifically grounded new discourse on masculinity. By analysing recent social campaigns on male sexual health, it wi…
Managing alternative sports: New organisational spaces for the diffusion of Italian parkour
This article explores the encounter between parkour as an unstructured and culturally innovative practice, challenging both physical as well as organisational spaces, and UISP (Unione Italiana Sport per Tutti/Italian Union of Sport for All) as a sport-promotion body open to organisational and cultural experimentation. Drawing on a multi-method qualitative approach (analysis of documentary material, interviews and focus groups), it looks at the ro…
Keeping it natural? challenging indoorization in Italian rock climbing
This article explores the transformation of rock climbing in a North-Western Italian region, paying attention to the need for 'keeping it natural' in the process of authentication of the practice among a sample of climbers. Like other nature sports such as rafting, skydiving and surfing, rock climbing has been affected by processes of indoorization and sportivization, moving practice sites from mountain rocks to artificial walls. Mixing a post-su…
Stranieri a tavola? Ridefinire i confini identitari attraverso le narrazioni alimentari
Attraverso l'analisi di tre casi di studio che utilizzano tre approcci qualitativi diversi (l'intervista, la photovoice, l'etnografia virtuale), il presente articolo mostra come l'alimentazione nell'esperienza migratoria possa fungere da spazio, sociale e vir-tuale, reale e immaginario, per rivendicare confini simbolici che possono essere costruiti in modo nostalgico o riaffermati in quanto tratto distintivo che differenzia chi migra dall'autocto…
Tackling the relationship between pornography's consumption and female sexual scripts: Does Masturbation Play an Activating Role
The present study addresses a neglected research question: does female masturbation moderate the association between pornography consumption during adolescence and sexual attitudes and behavior in later life? We adopt a theoretical perspective derived from the sexual script approach: since masturbation triggers the activation of sexual scripts acquired through porn exposure, we expect the former to increase the latter's association with the adopt…
Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna, Daniele Vignoli. Piacere e fedeltà. I millennials italiani e il sesso
No abstract
Clothing the practice: Community building, sportification and commodification in CrossFit and parkour
Relying on empirical data from two research projects on CrossFit and parkour, and adopting mixed methods (enactive ethnography, participant observation, online survey and social media analysis), this article aims at evidencing the role of apparel and gear in some processes engendering a transformation of the two practices. We investigate the making of boundaries – internal and external to the practices – that furnish ways of belonging to practiti…
Resexualising Later Life: Performances of Older Sexual Citizenship
"Too soft for real psychiatry"? Gendered boundary-making between coercion and dialog in Italian wards
Psychiatric practice has always entailed a coercive dimension, visible not only in its formal expressions (e.g. compulsory treatment) but in many informal and implicit forms. In fact, contemporary psychiatric practices are characterized by an interplay of coercion and dialog to be interpreted not as binary categories but as extremes of a spectrum. Within this perspective, it becomes crucial to draw boundaries attributing meaning to professional i…
Aging beauty matters: Normative and resistant narratives on female aging bodies
This article examines how older women navigate beauty work and anti-aging norms within contemporary Western aesthetic regimes. Rather than centering menopause as a biological transition, the study foregrounds beauty work as a key site where ageism and sexism intersect in shaping women's embodied experiences. Drawing on feminist sociology, cultural gerontology, embodiment theory, and scholarship on decline narratives, visibility and temporal gover…
Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Human sexuality (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Political science (4 works) · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (3 works)