Respectable Ladies and Uncouth Men
The Performative Politics of Class and Gender in the Public Realm of an Italian City
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2960263 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emanuela Guano (0000-0002-0916-391X, Georgia State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 120 |
| Issue | 475 |
| Pages | 48-72 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8715 • E-ISSN: 1535-1882 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jaf.2007.0011 |
| OpenAlex | W1979291015 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 45 |
According to the Webster's dictionary, being respectable means being "decent or correct in character or behavior" or being "fit to be seen." In this article, I approach "decent behavior" and "fitness to be seen" as the staple factor in the negotiation and the struggle over the place of women in the streets of an Italian city. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Genoa between 2002 and 2005, this article explores how middle-class women perform a classed and gendered respectability to resist their exclusion from an intensely masculinized public realm
Performative utterance · Realm · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Management and Organizational Studies · Social and Cultural Dynamics
Risky Routes, Safe Suspicions
A Tale of Two Ethnographers
Respectability in women’s solo travel
La création d’une communauté mobilisée pour les droits des femmes
Femminicidio and the emergence of a ‘community of sense’ in contemporary Italy
Men's stranger intrusions
Street Harassment
"A Chinese woman's journey to the "west
Touring the Hidden City
The paradoxical victim
A passion for difference
The public realm
Passing by
Theorizing patriarchy
The modernist city
Honour and Shame
Crab antics
Verbal art as performance
The man-of-words in the West Indies
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Ruining the President’s spectacle
The Fall of Public Man
Distinction
Ethnographic Imagination
Exploring the City. Inquiries Toward an Urban Anthropology
Anthropology and Autobiography
Gender Trouble
Separate Spheres, Female Worlds, Woman's Place
The Right to the City
Urban Life in Mediterranean Europe
Cartographic Convulsions
Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture
Exploring the City
A Semiotics of the Public/Private Distinction
Appropriating Bourdieu
Performance at the Nexus of Gender, Power, and Desire
Character Divination and Kinetic Sculpture in the Central Italian Passeggiata (Ritual Promenade)
The Passeggiata and Popular Culture in an Italian Town
Many Mirrors
Identity and Everyday Life
Moroccan Female Performers Defining the Social Body
Of Vigilance and Virgins
The Ethnographic Imagination
The Fall of Public Man
The Cultural Construction of Sexuality
"Empty Cradles" and the Quiet Revolution
Being-in-the-Market Versus Being-in-the-Plaza
Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others
Verbal Art as Performance1
The Poetics of Manhood
Re-Membering Places and the Performance of Belonging(s)
Crab Antics
| Unique citing works | 10 |
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| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |