AntoloGaia: Queering the Seventies, A Radical Trans Memoir (Other Voices of Italy)

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Synopsis
In this stirring memoir by a member of the first generation of LGBTQ+ activists in Italy, Porpora Marcasciano tells her story and shares the struggles and accomplishments of her fellow activists who achieved so much in the 1970s yet suffered devastating losses during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. AntoloGaia offers an insider’s look at the beginnings of the gay liberation movement in Italy and reveals how it was intimately intertwined with other forms of left-wing activism. At the same time, it powerfully conveys the queer joy of a young person from a small village first encountering the vibrant sexual minority communities of Naples, Bologna, and Rome. As Marcasciano starts to embrace her trans identity, she meets the famous anthropologist Pino Simonelli, who introduces her to Naples’s unique femminielli subculture and gives her the name Porporino, which she later shortens to Porpora. In keeping with this story of gender, sexual, and political discovery, AntoloGaia is the first piece of Italian life-writing to use gender-neutral and mixed-gender language.
Copyright:
2024

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
364 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781978835788
Related ISBNs:
9781978835795, 9781978835818
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Francesco Pascuzzi and Sandra Waters
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender, Social Studies
Grade Levels:
Eleventh grade
Reading Age:
16 and up
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Foreword by:
Sara Galli
Foreword by:
Mohammad Javad Jamali
Translator:
Francesco Pascuzzi
Translator:
Sandra Waters

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