Sentirsi ‘UOMO’ An Emblematic Case of Desired Transsexuality in a Migratory Context
| dc.contributor.author | Ricatti, Francesco | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-01-01T11:41:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-01-01T11:41:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006-01-01 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper argues, through the analysis of an episode of desired transsexuality by an Italian-Australian girl in the early 1960s, that migration history must not overlook the way the body was lived, spoken and silenced by individual migrants and by their ethnic community. It particularly focuses on the impossible dialogue attempted by the girl with her family and her community, illustrating some of the cultural, religious and medical means of control and repression through which the Italian respectability in Australia has been constructed. This article has been peer-reviewed. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Francesco Ricatti was born in Rome in 1974. In 1999 he graduated in Italian Contemporary Literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza. He currently lives in Sydney, where he is completing a PhD at the University of Sydney. The topic of his dissertation is Italian migrants’ material and discursive practices about the body: letters to Mamma Lena (La Fiamma, 1956–1964). His PhD research has been supported by scholarships received from Italian and Australian institutions. His first refereed article, 'Corpi migranti e pratiche dis-corsive: frammenti di una dissonante colonna sonora’, on the relation between his life and his research, was published in Italian Studies in Southern Africa (2005; 18 (1): 1–19). | en |
| dc.description.status | Peer-reviewed | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1449-0854 | en |
| dc.identifier.other | ORCID:/0000-0002-0745-7287/work/162950352 | en |
| dc.identifier.scopus | 76749129557 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1885/733800113 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.rights | Publisher Copyright: © 2006 Taylor & Francis Group LLC. | en |
| dc.source | History Australia | en |
| dc.title | Sentirsi ‘UOMO’ An Emblematic Case of Desired Transsexuality in a Migratory Context | en |
| dc.type | Journal article | en |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | en |
| local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 06.10 | en |
| local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 06.1 | en |
| local.contributor.affiliation | Ricatti, Francesco; University of Sydney | en |
| local.identifier.citationvolume | 3 | en |
| local.identifier.doi | 10.2104/ha060006 | en |
| local.identifier.pure | fcc095d2-e234-484e-a087-e209f4195b3c | en |
| local.identifier.url | https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/76749129557 | en |
| local.type.status | Published | en |