Adalgisa Giorgio

Review of 'Anna Bravo, A colpi di cuore. Storie del sessantotto, Roma-Bari, Gius. Laterza & Figli, 2008'

public and to revise its deployment of new communication technologies, while preserving intact the standards of academic research. At one point Pivato recalls, with a sting of nostalgia, two sets of ‘elementary rules’ that used to be at the basis of the historian’s craft: the precepts of the ‘when, where, how’ and the respect for ‘thesis, antithesis, synthesis’. Of great interest is the list of the few filmic and theatrical productions that, in the last decades, have resisted the general trend towards the forgetting of Italy’s recent past, for example revisiting key tragedies such as Fosse Ardeatine, Vajont and Ustica. Remarkably, the main agencies in which Pivato puts hope are also the most traditional ones – from cinema to cultural events, from grassroots publications to theatre – while little emphasis is dedicated to more recent, nonetheless influential, sites of production of collective knowledge, beginning with the Internet. Finally, despite the suggestive reference to Ben Jelloun’s novel, Pivato appears to overlook the possibility that literary production and consumption (in all their manifestations, from the printed book to online blogs), to say nothing of literary theory, may have something to contribute to the topics of memory, politics, and the fabrication of consensus – and to history itself. Is not all historiography, just like literature, also a matter of crafting persuasive narratives? Paolo Matteucci Dalhousie University a 2009 Paolo Matteucci

Didattica della sessualità e del genere tra Svizzera, Gran Bretagna, e Italia

Abstract Per capire meglio sia gli sviluppi disciplinari che la didattica delle questioni della sessualità e del genere nelle università italiane e straniere, abbiamo chiesto ad alcune colleghe una riflessione sulle loro esperienze. Presentiamo qui di seguito lo scambio di idee che ne è scaturito, relativo a ciò che si è già fatto, ma anche a ciò che si vorrebbe fare.