Foreword JACK DRESCHER Preface to the English Edition PAOLO VALERIO, AMELIA ROSA, TUNDO AND EUGENIO ZITO Preface [2019]: On the Neapolitan femminielli EUGENIO ZITO AND PAOLO VALERIO Preface [2013]: The Neapolitan femminielli , through historical reality, imagination and memory LUIGI MARIA LOMBARDI SATRIANI Introduction EUGENIO ZITO AND PAOLO VALERIO 1. And I came across [an effeminate] one in Naples. Femminielli , traces in history, and mythography EUGENIO ZITO, NICOLA SISCI, AND PAOLO VALERIO 2. Femminielli : The history of a term, from jargon to anthropological communication PATRICIA BIANCHI 3. The Neapolitan femminielli : Some anthropological considerations GABRIELLA D'AGOSTINO 4. Gender crossings and new paths in identity GIANFRANCA RANISIO 5. Neapolitanness and post-modern identities: New cultural shapes for the femminiello in Naples ANNALISA DI NUZZO 6. A wedding in the Bay of Naples? GENNARO CARRANO AND PINO SIMONELLI 7.

I/WE; masculine, feminine/transgender: On the revival of the juta ritual FRANCESCA VERDE 8. Femminielli , rivals in seduction: Feelings, identity, and sexuality in Naples and in Campania CORINNE FORTIER 9. Femminielli : A singular sociocultural limbo of fortune and death MARINELLA MIANO BORRUSO 10. Text and context of the femminielli : Socio-anthropological considerations on a gender-related study EUGENIO ZITO 11. In nomine femminielli : Ethnographic research on gender variant people living in contemporary Naples MARZIA MAURIELLO 12. The femminiello is dead! long live the femminiello ! Patrimonialization and rebirth of Naples' own social figure MARIA CAROLINA VESCE 13. In my dream I was always opening a massive doorway: Self-narration and construction of gender variant identity in Naples EUGENIO ZITO 14. Traces on Cybele's path: Historical antecedents and ethnographic findings NICO STAITI 15.

A photograph, a case, and an alley named femminelle: Searching for third-gender identities in 19th-century Naples AMELIA ROSA TUNDO.