Being Third Gender, Being Neapolitan

ISBN 10: 1041150814 / ISBN 13: 9781041150817

Published by Routledge, 2026

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Being Third Gender, Being Neapolitan
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1041150814
• ISBN 13: 9781041150817
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Paolo Valerio, honorary professor of Clinical Psychology at Naples’ Federico II, advanced the wellbeing of transgender and gender diverse persons. As President of the National Observatory on Gender Identity and the Fondazione Genere, Identità, Cultura ETS, he advocates sexual minorities rights. His extensive publications regard gender Identity, homo-bi-transphobia, intersexuality.

Amelia Rosa Tundo is an independent researcher and translator. Her roles in Being Third Gender, Being Neapolitan Culture, History and the ‘Femminielli’ reflect her background in the Humanities (B.A., University of Detroit; M.A., Wayne State University; AbD, Indiana University) and her Neapolitan experience. She is a published translator and co-author.

Eugenio Zito, Gender Studies PhD, is associate professor of Cultural Anthropology at Naples’ Federico II and full member of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, the Italian Society of Cultural Anthropology and the Board of the Italian Society of Medical Anthropology. His extensive publications regard gender, embodiment, subalternity, chronic illness.