Gender, Discourse and Ideology in Italian

Federica Formato is an independent scholar who has taught linguistics at various UK universities. She has published on the topics of direct and indirect instances of sexism in Italian from quantitative and qualitative perspectives, and gender and language in the law. Her research interests include gender, politics, violence against women and corpus linguistics.

• Chapter 1: Introduction to the study of gender in Italian.- Chapter 2: An overview of grammatical gender in Italian.- Chapter 3: Feminine forms between recommendations and usages.- Chapter 4: Women in the public sphere: gendered language.- Chapter 5: Women, crime and gender in the private sphere: Femminicidio.- Chapter 6: Conclusions.

“Gender, discourse and ideology in Italian brings forth a theoretical discussion of key concepts, such as gender, ideology, and feminism. It also provides data on how Italians actually respond to gendered language. … These matters deserve attention and can be further exploited in future research.” (Erika Coachman, Language in Society, Vol. 49 (2), 2020)