Italian. Gender and female visibility in Italian

1.Introduction

2. Categories of gender in Italian

2.1 Grammatical gender

2.2 The structure of Italian human nouns

2.3 Derivation

2.4 Compounding

2.5 Agreement

2.6 Pronominalisation

3. The semantics of human nouns

3.1 Semantic loading

3.2 Semantic asymmetries

3.3 Masculine generics

3.4 Proper names

4. The representation of women and men in selected text types

4.1 Grammars

4.2 Teaching materials

4.3 Newspapers

4.4 Literary texts

4.5 Proverbs

5. Female and male discourse

6. Language politics

6.1 Language use and language politics

6.2 Splitting

6.3 Formation of new agentives

7. Conclusion

Notes

References

• Affiliations: 1: University of Padua, Italy; 2: University of Bologna, Italy