Being Third Gender, Being Neapolitan
Culture, History and the ?Femminielli?
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 17 May 2026
- ISBN 9781041150817
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages314 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 740 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 Illustrations, black & white; 4 Halftones, black & white; 1 Tables, black & white 679
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Short description:
This book introduces the Neapolitan 'femminielli', their customs and practices through essays originally published in Italian and newly translated into English. Scholars and students of Cultural Anthropology, Psychology, Gender Studies, History, Performance, and Literature will all find something engaging and timely in this collection.
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This book introduces the Neapolitan 'femminielli', their customs and practices through a series of essays originally published in Italian and newly translated into English. Historically present in the city of Naples, Italy and surrounding provinces, femminielli express their social identity in a form that is neither masculine nor feminine but contains both, and has liminal characteristics. Contributors weave historical, socio-cultural, literary, iconographic, and artistic traces to explore different facets of this human experience and demonstrate the extreme complexity of what they observed. Their efforts show the femminielli to be a very articulated and at the same time fluid reality, multifaceted and dynamic, in relation to its contextual dimensions.
Scholars and university students of Cultural Anthropology, Psychology, Gender Studies, History, Performance, and Literature will all find something engaging and timely in this collection.
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Foreword
JACK DRESCHER
Preface to the English Edition
PAOLO VALERIO, AMELIA ROSA, TUNDO AND EUGENIO ZITO
Preface [2019]: On the Neapolitan femminielli
EUGENIO ZITO AND PAOLO VALERIO
Preface [2013]: The Neapolitan femminielli, through historical reality, imagination and memory
LUIGI MARIA LOMBARDI SATRIANI
Introduction
EUGENIO ZITO AND PAOLO VALERIO
1. And I came across [an effeminate] one in Naples. Femminielli, traces in history, and mythography
EUGENIO ZITO, NICOLA SISCI, AND PAOLO VALERIO
2. Femminielli: The history of a term, from jargon to anthropological communication
PATRICIA BIANCHI
3. The Neapolitan femminielli: Some anthropological considerations
GABRIELLA D?AGOSTINO
4. Gender crossings and new paths in identity
GIANFRANCA RANISIO
5. Neapolitanness and post-modern identities: New cultural shapes for the femminiello in Naples
ANNALISA DI NUZZO
6. A wedding in the Bay of Naples?
GENNARO CARRANO AND PINO SIMONELLI
7. I/WE; masculine, feminine/transgender: On the revival of the juta ritual
FRANCESCA VERDE
8. Femminielli, rivals in seduction: Feelings, identity, and sexuality in Naples and in Campania
CORINNE FORTIER
9. Femminielli: A singular sociocultural limbo of fortune and death
MARINELLA MIANO BORRUSO
10. Text and context of the femminielli: Socio-anthropological considerations on a gender-related study
EUGENIO ZITO
11. In nomine femminielli: Ethnographic research on gender variant people living in contemporary Naples
MARZIA MAURIELLO
12. The femminiello is dead! long live the femminiello! Patrimonialization and rebirth of Naples? own social figure
MARIA CAROLINA VESCE
13. In my dream I was always opening a massive doorway: Self-narration and construction of gender variant identity in Naples
EUGENIO ZITO
14. Traces on Cybele?s path: Historical antecedents and ethnographic findings
NICO STAITI
15. A photograph, a case, and an alley named femminelle: Searching for third-gender identities in 19th-century Naples
AMELIA ROSA TUNDO
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