Sara Garbagnoli Garbagnoli is an independent researcher affiliated to LEGS
(CNRS – Université de Paris 8) and to PoliTeSse (Università di Verona).

https://legs.cnrs.fr/lequipe/membres/sara-garbagnoli/

Sara Garbagnoli is a feminist and sociologist, committed to research at the crossroads of feminist theory, discourse analysis and sociology of social movements, focusing on the historical process in the emergence of gender studies and the resistances raising against it.

With a solid record of scholarly contributions, she is also implicated in civil society debates in Italy and France.

For already many years, she has been involved in research on anti-gender campaigns, analysing the rhetoric of the Vatican, as well as activities and discourses of far rights parties and actors. In 2017, she published the book La croisade anti-genre. Du Vatican aux manif pour tous, co-written with Massimo Prearo (Textuel, 2017), also translated in Italian (Kaplan, 2018).

Part of a network of scholars and activists that develops the understanding of the writings of Monique Wittig, Christine Delphy and Colette Guillaumin, she is playing a crucial role in spreading the research on lesbianism and materialist feminism.

Highlights

Garbagnoli, S. (2020) Questions minoritaires, réponses majeures : remarques sur la colère majoritaire, Penser avec Colette Guillaumin aujourd’hui, Cahiers du genre, n°68, p. 55-73.
Garbagnoli, S. with Prearo M. (2017) La croisade ‘anti-genre’. Du Vatican aux manif pour tous. Paris: Textuel.

Garbagnoli, S. (2017) Italy as a lighthouse: Anti-gender Protests in Italy between Human Anthropology and National Identity in Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe (D. Paternotte, R. Kuhar eds), Rowman & Littlefeld.
Garbagnoli, S. (2016) Against the Heresy of Immanence: Vatican’s ‘Gender’ as a New Rhetorical Device Against the Denaturalization of the Sexual Order, Religion and Gender 6(2), p.187-204.

Garbagnoli, S. and Perilli V. (eds) (2014) Non si nasce donna. Percorsi, testi e contesti del femminismo materialista, Rome: Alegre.

Garbagnoli, S. (2012) Denaturalizzare il normale. L’interrogazione paradossale degli studi di genere e sessualità in Genesis. Rivista della Società italiana delle storiche, XI/1-2, p. 193-229.