Elena Dalla Torre
Biographic Data
| ID | 6675831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elena Dalla Torre |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elena Dalla |
| FAMILY NAME | Torre |
| SIGNATURE | TORRE E D |
| AFFILIATIONS | UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Transessualità Italian-Style or Mario Mieli's Practice of Love
The radical theories of Italian thinker Mario Mieli are still unknown to Anglo-American audiences. Founder of the Italian homosexual movement, Mieli must be rediscovered for his theory and embodiment of transessualità, developed in Elements of a Gay Critique. This article explores transessualità as the product of “erotic communism,” the countersexual discourse of the 1970s, which enables transessualità, simultaneous discovery of the woman within …
Eccentricity and Sameness. Discourses on Lesbianism and Desire between Women in Italy, 1860s–1930s
Eccentricity and Sameness. Discourses on Lesbianism and Desire between Women in Italy, 1860s–1930s." Italian Culture, 34(1), pp. 57–58
Between ‘Men’
Representations of masculinities in Dacia Maraini’s Donna in guerra (1975) have received scarce critical attention. Against a backdrop of feminist criticism that deals with female characters and female emancipation, this article focuses on portrayals of non-dominant masculinities and on representations of perverse female desires as sites of denaturalization of the link between men and power. Drawing on recent scholarship on masculinity, on gay st…
The clitoris diaries
Radical feminist Carla Lonzi is regarded as a founding mother of Italian feminism in the early 1970s. Italian feminists look at her diaries and pamphlets as historical testimony, or as tools of self-identification. Very little work engages Lonzi’s feminist thought in its critique of psychoanalytic constructs of female sexuality, such as the forced sexual coincidence between vaginal sexuality and masculine pleasure. While reappropriating the clito…
Transessualità Italian-Style or Mario Mieli's Practice of Love
The radical theories of Italian thinker Mario Mieli are still unknown to Anglo-American audiences. Founder of the Italian homosexual movement, Mieli must be rediscovered for his theory and embodiment of transessualità, developed in Elements of a Gay Critique. This article explores transessualità as the product of “erotic communism,” the countersexual discourse of the 1970s, which enables transessualità, simultaneous discovery of the woman within …
The clitoris diaries
Radical feminist Carla Lonzi is regarded as a founding mother of Italian feminism in the early 1970s. Italian feminists look at her diaries and pamphlets as historical testimony, or as tools of self-identification. Very little work engages Lonzi’s feminist thought in its critique of psychoanalytic constructs of female sexuality, such as the forced sexual coincidence between vaginal sexuality and masculine pleasure. While reappropriating the clito…
The clitoris diaries
Radical feminist Carla Lonzi is regarded as a founding mother of Italian feminism in the early 1970s. Italian feminists look at her diaries and pamphlets as historical testimony, or as tools of self-identification. Very little work engages Lonzi’s feminist thought in its critique of psychoanalytic constructs of female sexuality, such as the forced sexual coincidence between vaginal sexuality and masculine pleasure. While reappropriating the clito…
Between ‘Men’
Representations of masculinities in Dacia Maraini’s Donna in guerra (1975) have received scarce critical attention. Against a backdrop of feminist criticism that deals with female characters and female emancipation, this article focuses on portrayals of non-dominant masculinities and on representations of perverse female desires as sites of denaturalization of the link between men and power. Drawing on recent scholarship on masculinity, on gay st…
Eccentricity and Sameness. Discourses on Lesbianism and Desire between Women in Italy, 1860s–1930s
Eccentricity and Sameness. Discourses on Lesbianism and Desire between Women in Italy, 1860s–1930s." Italian Culture, 34(1), pp. 57–58
Transessualità Italian-Style or Mario Mieli's Practice of Love
The radical theories of Italian thinker Mario Mieli are still unknown to Anglo-American audiences. Founder of the Italian homosexual movement, Mieli must be rediscovered for his theory and embodiment of transessualità, developed in Elements of a Gay Critique. This article explores transessualità as the product of “erotic communism,” the countersexual discourse of the 1970s, which enables transessualità, simultaneous discovery of the woman within …
Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Feminism (2 works) · Human sexuality (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Anarchism and Radical Politics (1 work)